Birtwistle: The Moth Requiem
Roderick Williams (baritone)
BBC Singers & Nash Ensemble, Nicholas Kok
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2014, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Finalist - Contemporary
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
This is a wonderful and important release of his powerful and often delicate works. Best, perhaps, to begin with On the Sheer Threshold of the Night, which is a kind of spin-off from The Mask...
Birtwistle: The Moth Requiem
Roderick Williams (baritone)
BBC Singers & Nash Ensemble, Nicholas Kok
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Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2014, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Finalist - Contemporary
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
This is a wonderful and important release of his powerful and often delicate works. Best, perhaps, to begin with On the Sheer Threshold of the Night, which is a kind of spin-off from The Mask...
About
As 2014 marks the composer’s 80th year, Harrison Birtwistle remains one of the most popular voices in contemporary composition in the UK and beyond. This new collection of premiere recordings draws together recent commissions with older works to mark the occasion, with characteristically flawless performances from the BBC Singers under Nicholas Kok. They are joined on this disc by the Nash Ensemble and baritone Roderick Williams.
This is the fourth in Signum's ongoing series of composer-led releases with the BBC Singers, with past discs featuring the works by Judith Bingham, Richard Rodney Bennett, and most recently Edward Cowie.
Contents and tracklist
- Roderick Williams
- BBC Singers, The Nash Ensemble
- Nicholas Kok
- BBC Singers
- Nicholas Kok
- BBC Singers
- The Nash Ensemble
- Nicholas Kok
- BBC Singers
- Nicholas Kok
- BBC Singers
- The Nash Ensemble
- Nicholas Kok
- BBC Singers
- The Nash Ensemble
- Nicholas Kok
Awards and reviews
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Gramophone MagazineMay 2014Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the YearFinalist 2014
May 2014
This is a wonderful and important release of his powerful and often delicate works. Best, perhaps, to begin with On the Sheer Threshold of the Night, which is a kind of spin-off from The Mask of Orpheus...This disc is the most fitting tribute imaginable to Birtwistle on his 80th birthday.
May 2014
I doubt whether anything the year brings for Birtwistle's 80th birthday is going to dim the lustre of this excellent recording of his choral music. Nor surpass it in importance, perhaps.
20th February 2014
The centrepiece of this outstanding disc of choral works by Harrison Birtwistle, all recorded for the first time, is one of the beautiful and most intensely personal of his recent scores...It's an important, scrupulously presented collection.
