CD, Bowen (composer)
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A Lionel Tertis Celebration
RecommendedTimothy Ridout (viola), Frank Dupree (piano), James Baillieu (piano)
From imposing sonatas to salon bonbons, these recordings constitute a deft salute not just to Tertis the man and multifaceted musician, but also to an enduring legacy which lives on in distinguished... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th January 2024
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2024, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2024, Recording of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Finalist - Chamber
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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Special offer. Overtures from the British Isles, Vol. 2
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Rumon Gamba
This most welcome second volume of British overtures serves to accentuate the sheer diversity of works this country produced in the genre between the 1890s and the 1940s and, moreover, where... —
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Namoradze brings a deft touch to these charming works [the Andersen Fragments], teasing out their respective tenderness, melancholy and wit with subtlety and poise…[In the Op. 46 Studies] Namoradze... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2021, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2021, Instrumental Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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York Bowen could have no more ardent or pianistically adroit advocate —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Danny Driver, whose debut on Hyperion was an acclaimed recording of Bowen's Third and Fourth piano concertos, is the ideal advocate for this glorious music, playing with razor-sharp articulation... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Finalist - Instrumental
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2009, Editor's Choice
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The Romantic Piano Concerto 46 - York Bowen
Danny Driver (piano), James Horan (cor anglais) & Scott Dickinson (viola)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
Absolutely stunning … what a way to be introduced to the music of York Bowen! —
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one idiomatic opportunity after another is seized on by Chloë Hanslip with panache, poise, and laser-like accuracy...My only reservation about these excellent performances concerns Danny Driver's... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2013, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. British Violin Sonatas Vol. 3
Bowen, Ireland, Alwyn, Brown, Coates
Tasmin Little (violin), Piers Lane (piano)
The performers respond to both aspects of [Bowen's] music with muscular virtuosity and affection. Especially in the high tessitura of the slow movement, Tasmin Little’s tonal variety and rhythmic... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2021, Winner - Chamber
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Special offer. York Bowen: Chamber Works
Robert Plane (bass clarinet), Robert Plane (clarinet), with Mia Cooper (violin) & David Adams (viola)
Gould Piano Trio
The Gould Piano Trio...well recorded, play with fine teamwork and a strong feeling for Bowen's idiom...this is a valuable introduction to a formidably well equipped, if doggedly conversative,... —
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a thoroughly sympathetic advocate of Bowen’s work… powerful and poised, nimble and sensitive —
