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Howard Skempton: Ben Somewhen - Choral & Chamber Music

1 CD / NM Classics Import / 2007-09-04

Works: Howard Skempton: Chamber Concerto, for 15 players; Quintet for Clarinet and Strings; The Voice of the Spirits, for choir; The Bridge of Fire, for choir; Suite from Delicate, for 2 cellos & percussion...
Performers: Heinen, Ulrich; Jenkinson, Richard; Warburton, Julian
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Ensemble: Birmingham Contemporary Music Group

David Sawer: From Morning to Midnight

1 CD / NM Classics Import / 2007-02-13

Works: David Sawer: Tiroirs, for chamber orchestra; From Morning to Midnight, symphonic suite; The Memory of Water, for 2 violins & string orchestra; The Greatest Happiness Principle, for orchestra
Performers: Blendis, Simon; Wood, Alexandra
Conductors: Mälkki, Susanna; Brabbins, Martyn
Ensemble: ; Birmingham Contemporary Music Group

BBC Music Magazine
This is flintily expressionistic music, needle-sharp in texture, superbly scored, and powerfully Projected in this BBC performance by Martyn Brabbins, who conducted the...continue...

Stuart MacRae; Violin Concerto; Two Scenes from the Death of Ugolino; Motus etc.

1 CD / NM Classics Import / 2006-09-11

Works: Stuart MacRae: Concerto for Violin; Scenes (2) from the Death of Count Ugolino, for voice & orchestra; Motus, for violin, cello, clarinet, oboe, piano & harp; Stirling Choruses, for wind ensemble
Performers: Lixenberg, Loré; Tetzlaff, Christian [Violin]
Conductors: Volkov, Ilan; Mälkki, Susanna
Ensemble: ; Birmingham Contemporary Music Group

BBC Music Magazine
The premiere of Stuart MacRae's Violin Concerto at the 2001 Proms cemented his reputation and transformed him at the age of 25 from...continue...