CD, Bryars (composer)
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Kuusisto: Symphony, Op. 39, Pictured Within & Birthday Variations for M.C.B.
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
Big, hymnlike tunes emerge from straining and urgent textures, and like so much Finnish music, this is not afraid to look into the abyss. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Contemporary Music
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The NMC Songbook
RecommendedSopranos - Claire Booth, Ailish Tynan, Elizabeth Atherton
Mezzo-sopranos - Susan Bickley, Loré Lixenberg, Jean Rigby
Countertenors - James Bowman, Michael Chance, Andrew Watts
Tenors - Andrew Kennedy, Daniel Norman, Benjamin Hulett
Baritones - Stefan Loges, Roderick Williams,...
…anyone listening to these discs will find many things to savour… It is, inevitably an eclectic mix, but, as in any well-planned song recital, the progressions and juxtapositions are continually... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th April 2009
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Winner - Contemporary
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Fretwork takes everything in its expertly burnished stride. Muhly’s provocative vigour is answered by the soulful musings of the Bryars, and a consort respray of Bull’s keyboard In Nomine in... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2020, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2020, Chamber Choice
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The Fifth Century is signature Bryars but no less affecting for its familiar soundworld...The text is fascinating...but it is equally possible to allow the words to wash over you entirely and... —
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Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Best Choral Performance
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Harpsichord pandemonium – thrills and thought provocation for commoners and connoisseurs alike. —
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The inexorable ebb and flow in Bryars's music distils the sense of musical portraiture represented in The Church Closest to the Sea… There are moments of distilled beauty, too, in the earlier,... —
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Gavin Bryars & Blake Morrison: The Stopping Train
Blake Morrison (narrator), James Woodrow (electric guitar), Morgan Goff (viola), Nick Cooper (cello), Gavin Bryars (double bass)
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A Worcester Ladymass
Anna Maria Friman, Linn Andrea Fuglseth & Torunn Østrem Ossum (voice)
Trio Mediaeval
The whole programme flows together beautifully and the Trio's diction and tone perfectly combines celestial purity and perfection with human warmth and vulnerability. —
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Shortlisted - Early Music
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