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Read more about the article Andrew Hamilton: Music for People

Andrew Hamilton: Music for People

  • Post author:christianmorris
  • Post published:June 22, 2018
  • Post category:CD Review

Andrew Hamilton‘s Music for People, a new album on NMC, contains three works by the composer: music for people who like art, for voice and ensemble; To the People for soprano and percussion; andmusic for…

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Read more about the article CD Review: Philip Venables, Below the Belt

CD Review: Philip Venables, Below the Belt

  • Post author:christianmorris
  • Post published:March 29, 2018
  • Post category:CD Review

If there’s a British composer on a roll at the moment, it’s Philip Venables. His first major opera, a setting of Sarah Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis, premiered in 2016 at the Royal…

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Read more about the article ‘The Silver Stars at Play’: Contemporary Christmas Carols Review

‘The Silver Stars at Play’: Contemporary Christmas Carols Review

  • Post author:christianmorris
  • Post published:December 14, 2017
  • Post category:CD Review

'The Silver Stars at Play' from Primae Facie Records features 23 world premiere carol recordings. At over 70 minutes it is a generous programme, with a cross-section of both significant and lesser-known…

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Read more about the article An Eventful Morning in East London: 21st Century Violin Concertos

An Eventful Morning in East London: 21st Century Violin Concertos

  • Post author:christianmorris
  • Post published:May 13, 2017
  • Post category:CD Review

Harriet Mackenzie (violin), Retorica, English Symphony Orchestra, English String Orchestra, Kenneth Woods (conductor). Nimbus NI 6295. Violinist Harriet Mackenzie and conductor Kenneth Woods have both made appearances on this blog before.…

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Read more about the article Rhona Clarke: A Different Game

Rhona Clarke: A Different Game

  • Post author:christianmorris
  • Post published:April 14, 2017
  • Post category:CD Review
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Piano Trios 2, 3 and 4 (‘A Different Game’); Gleann Da Lough (solo piano), Con Coro (violin, cello and tape), In Umbra (solo cello).  The Fidelio Trio, Métier msv 28561.…

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Read more about the article Tarik O’Regan: A Celestial Map of the Sky

Tarik O’Regan: A Celestial Map of the Sky

  • Post author:christianmorris
  • Post published:February 22, 2017
  • Post category:CD Review

NMC D220 Hallé, Hallé Youth Choir, The Manchester Grammar School Choir, Jamie Phillips and Sir Mark Elder. It seems ridiculous that a disk that has no overt political agenda should, as the clock…

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Read more about the article Chaya Czernowin The Quiet

Chaya Czernowin The Quiet

  • Post author:christianmorris
  • Post published:September 12, 2016
  • Post category:CD Review

Chaya Czernowin was born and raised in Israel but has subsequently lived in Germany, Austria, Japan and now the US. Given such a peripatetic lifestyle it is, perhaps, unsurprising that…

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Read more about the article The Norway Option

The Norway Option

  • Post author:christianmorris
  • Post published:July 26, 2016
  • Post category:CD Review

No, not a follow-up to my Brexit post—though I could easily wax lyrical about its advantages in that context—but, rather, a recent CD from Norwegian record label Lawo.  Perpetuum Trompetuum is a…

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Read more about the article CD Review: Jonathan Harvey, Deo

CD Review: Jonathan Harvey, Deo

  • Post author:christianmorris
  • Post published:June 27, 2016
  • Post category:CD Review

Choir of St. John’s College Cambridge, Edward Picton-Turbevill (organ), Andrew Nethsingha (conductor). Signum Classics (SIGCD456). If Jonathan Harvey was always considered to be a modernist, he was certainly one of…

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Read more about the article Martin Smolka: Poema De Balcones

Martin Smolka: Poema De Balcones

  • Post author:christianmorris
  • Post published:April 10, 2016
  • Post category:CD Review

The music of Czech composer Martin Smolka was unfamiliar to me until I came across this new disk of his choral works on Wergo. The programme contains his Poema De Balcones; Walden, The Distiller…

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