CD, Matthews, D (composer)
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An English Coronation, 1902-1953
RecommendedEdward VII, George V, George VI, Elizabeth II
Gabrieli, Paul McCreesh
Some may find the extensive spoken liturgy excessive but such is Simon Russell Beale’s compelling delivery that the sheer beauty of the words offers a musical diversion of a different kind.... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2019, Editor's Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2019
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Diapason d’Or, September 2019, Nouveauté
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2019
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2019, Nominated - Vocal
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Choral
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Critics' Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Finalist - Choral
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David Matthews: Anna: Symphonic Diptych; Symphony No. 11; Flute Concerto
Emma Halnan, Ulster Orchestra, Jac van Steen
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The two pieces at the heart of this release date from 2013, Matthews’s 60th year. They and the two shorter works reveal him at the height of his powers in both abstract and programmatic writing.... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2021, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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David Matthews: Winter Passions
Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano), Stephan Loges (baritone)
The Nash Ensemble, Lionel Friend
The writing has many of David Matthews's familiar strengths: a fine sensuous imagination, adventurous harmony that makes clear aural sense, an equally clear sense of organic development of ideas...It's... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Finalist - Contemporary
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2010, Editor's Choice
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An essential and authentic document…by a musical master who should be much more widely celebrated for what he brings to today’s fractured cultural landscape. —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2024, Editor's Choice
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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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Tecchler's Cello: From Cambridge to Rome
Guy Johnston (cello), Tom Poster (piano), Magnus Johnston (violin), Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello)
Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, Orchestra of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Stephen Cleobury, Carlo Rizzari
Barrière’s amiable Sonata for Two Cellos in G major unites [Johnston] with fellow BBC Young Musicians of the Year Sheku Kanneh-Mason. It’s a delectably nuanced performance, capped by a finale... —
