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They offer a visceral, exhilarating insight into his brilliant musical imagination. Volatility is the watchword: from subtle delicacy to hedonistic excess; tender entwining to ironic parody... —
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2025, Orchestral Choice
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The New York Times, Best Classical Music Albums of 2025
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Tania León: Horizons, Raíces (origins), Stride, Pasajes
RecommendedLondon Philharmonic Orchestra, Karina Canellakis, Edward Gardner, Dmitri Slobodeniouk
Splashes of orchestral colour, with an emphasis on winds and brass, showcase Latin, jazz and Caribbean influences, to which the LPO responds with vibrant virtuosity. —
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Grammy Awards, 68th Awards (2026), Nominated - Best Contemporary Classical Composition (Raíces (Origins))
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The New York Times, Best Classical Music Albums of 2025
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Marin Alsop conducts MacMillan, Adès and Higdon
RecommendedColin Currie (percussion)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Marin Alsop
…a moving, compelling performance, and coupled with strong accounts of the phenomenal Adès Chamber Symphony… and Jennifer Higdon's essentially old-fashioned but well-wrought Percussion Concerto,... —
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Grammy Awards, 52nd Awards (2009), Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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Julian Anderson: Fantasias, The Crazed Moon & The Discovery of Heaven
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski, Ryan Wigglesworth
[The Discovery of Heaven] combines the spacious and the frenetic, timelessness and urgency, within an overall sense of luminosity. Fantasias (2009) is a magnificent showpiece for 21st-century... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2014, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Finalist - Contemporary
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Julian Anderson: In lieblicher Bläue, Alleluia, The Stations of the Sun
RecommendedCarolin Widmann (violin)
London Philharmonic Choir & London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski
Carolin Widman is superb as the often diaphanous, yet frequently impulsive soloist negotiating an uneasy relationship with the orchestra in this recording of the world premiere. Vladimir Jurowski... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2017, Premiere Winner
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Finalist - Concerto
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Vladimir Martynov: Utopia
Jun Hong Loh (soloist), London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Choir, Vladimir Jurowski
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James MacMillan: Christmas Oratorio
Lucy Crowe (soprano), Roderick Williams (baritone), London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Choir, Mark Elder
The spiritual charge of MacMillan’s Oratorio is made palpable, its heady mix of wonder, trepidation and profound mystery stirringly captured. —
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Finalists, Shortlisted - Contemporary
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Brett Dean: In spe contra spem, Viola & Cello Concertos and Orchestral Works
Lawrence Power (viola), Emma Bell (soprano), Elsa Dreisig (soprano), Alban Gerhardt (cello), Bartosz Glowacki (accordion)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Enrique Mazzola, Hannu Lintu, Edward Gardner, Karina Canellakis, Vladimir Jurowski
Brett Dean’s music is typically dramatic, expressive and texturally, timbrally and spatially innovative while fluently combining modernism and lyricism. The works on this impressive release,... —
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Mark-Anthony Turnage: Orchestral Works Vol. 3
Lawrence Power (viola), Michael Collins (clarinet), Christian Tetzlaff (violin)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Markus Stenz, Marin Alsop, Vladimir Jurowski
The three most substantial works on this CD are concertos in all but name, each a valuable addition to the repertoire...[On opened ground] finds Power making wonderful sense of Turnage’s alternately... —
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The Post-War Revival
Eugenia Zareska (mezzo-soprano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Eduard van Beinum
