Maw, N - Life Studies
-
Nicholas Maw: Sonata Notturna & Life Studies
Raphael Wallfisch (cello)
English String Orchestra, William Boughton
Boughton's new version seems richer in detail and more powerful in its final impact than the old Marriner recording with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields (Argo, 1/80 – nla), and more atmospherically... —
-
Nicholas Maw: Life Studies / Richard Rodney Bennett: Spells
The Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields / The Bach Choir & The Philharmonia Orchestra
-
New Music Collections Vol. 3 - Orchestral
Roy Carter (oboe), Wim Timmermans (horn), Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Robin Michael (cello), Hallé Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Asko Ensemble, BBC Symphony Orchestra, City of London Sinfonia, BBC Concert Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Nicholas Collon,...
This is a very superior “sampler”...Outstanding, I kept finding, was the first-movement extract from Wood’s Symphony (BBC SO under Andrew Davis): brooding, post-Schoenbergian vehemence with... —
-
Richard Rodney Bennett: Spells
Jane Manning (soprano)
The Bach Choir & Philharmonia Orchestra, Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Sir David Willcocks, Sir Neville Marriner
A welcome 70th-birthday re-release for Bennett's colourful choral piece of 1975, and for the set of studies for string orchestra written by his close contemporary, Maw. Both are persuasive... —
