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Special offer. White Robe: A Fashion Opera
Sarah Parkin (soprano), Jenni Hogan (flute), Ben Smith (piano), Kelly Poukens (soprano), Rosie Middleton (mezzo-soprano), Clara Kanter (mezzo-soprano)
Scored for two sopranos, two mezzos, flute and piano, the limited timbral palette is used with intelligent frugality...The entire cast has a firm grounding in contemporary music and it shows.... —
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Dullea plays the music with clarity, sensitivity of phrasing, and an admirably rich palette of colors, all captured in first-rate sound. —
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The Hurdy-Gurdy Man & Me: Music by Howard Skempton
Chris Brannick, Matthew Spring, Jon Banks, Sara Stowe, Christopher Redgate, Isabelle Carré, Sirinu
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Robert Saxton: String Quartets Nos. 3 & 4, Sonata For Solo Violin ‘reflections in Time’
Peter Sheppard Skærved (soloist), Kreutzer Quartet
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Distant Voices, New Worlds: Songs, Landscapes and Histories
Shirley J. Thompson, Evelyn Ficcara, Rowland Sutherland, Ed Hughes, Matthew Sheeran, New Music Players, Orchestra of Sound and Light
This is a very varied selection – a Quality Street assortment of different trends in contemporary composition, with composers taking their cues from 10 centuries of music history. Yet all share... —
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Between Gerhard's Piano Trio, almost his first work, written in 1918 at the age of 22, and Gemini, composed nearly half a century later, yawns a stylistic gulf that almost defies credence; but... —
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Rising at Dawn
Chamber Music with Brass by Carson Cooman
Katarzyna Sadej (mezzo-soprano), Chris Gekker (trumpet/flugelhorn), Jeffrey Grossman (piano), Rebecca Smith (harp), Mark Nelson (tuba) & Maria Sierra (piano)
