SACD, Dean, B (composer)
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Brett Dean - Rooms of Elsinore
RecommendedJennifer France; Lotte Betts-Dean; Juho Pohjonen; James Crabb; Volker Hemken; Swedish Chamber Orchestra; Brett Dean
This compelling album presents five works prompted by writing an opera on Shakespeare’s iconic tragedy. Each stands on its own, yet they obliquely inhabit its world….Adroitly partnered by pianist... —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2024, Choral & Song Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Contemporary Music
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2024
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2024
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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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Some purists may take exception to Dausgaard’s tempos or dynamics here and there, but the Bach performances, for the most part, are crisp, lively and expressive, and the BIS recording vivid,... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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Håkan Hardenberger plays Dean and Francesconi
Håkan Hardenberger (trumpet)
Gothenburg Symphony, John Storgårds
Most bewitching is the soulfulness of Hardenberger’s response as Francesconi pays poetic tribute to that real-life hero of the trumpet and more, Miles Davis. —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2017, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Finalist - Contemporary
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This superb new release in BIS’s series devoted to Brett Dean takes its name of the longest piece in the collection…like everything here, it’s dispatched with breathtaking ease by the Swedish... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2016, Editor's Choice
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Brett Dean: The Lost Art of Letter Writing
Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin)
Sydney Symphony, BBC Symphony Orchestra (viola section), Gondwana Voices & BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Jonathan Nott, Martyn Brabbins, David Robertson
Dean creates a Berg-like soundscape in which fragments of that Symphony [Brahms 4] fleetingly or sometimes not so fleetingly swim into focus...A similarly effective tension between classic fragments... —
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Brett Dean’s Voices of Angels is a very substantial work, making his customary detailed sonic investigations into the ensemble’s possible combinations of instruments, and doing so with a tremendous... —
