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Turnage Greek
(Anonymous) Ensemble | Fiona Kimm | Helen Charnock | Quentin Hayes | Richard Bernas | Richard Suart
Mark-Anthony Turnage's Greek (to a libretto by Steven Berkoff from his own Oedipus-in-the-East-End play) won two awards and a standing...
Reviewed by Michael Oliver in issue: 7/1994
Eötvös; Gruber; Turnage Orchestral Works with Trumpet
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra | Håkan Hardenberger | Peter Eötvös
Håkan Hardenberger has always championed contemporary composers and this new disc underlines the breadth of his sympathies. Of the works...
Reviewed by kYlzrO1BaC7A in issue: 10/2006
Turnage Scorched
Even when writing for the rarefied atmosphere of the concert hall, Mark-Anthony Turnage’s music is strongly coloured by his love...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 2/2004
Turnage Three Screaming Popes
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra | Simon Rattle
The British Composers series from EMI is treading warily as far as living composers are concerned; but now, within a...
Reviewed by Arnold Whittall in issue: 9/1992
Bracing Change 2
Bozzini Quartet | Heath Quartet | Piatti Quartet
Three string quartets by three composers performed by three different groups. In this sense, ‘Bracing Change 2’ is no different...
Reviewed by Pwyll ap Siôn in issue: 06/2023
MACMILLAN From Ayrshire. Tuireadh. ...as others see us...
Despite its geographically Scottish title, the opening movement of From Ayrshire feels more akin to the pastoral Gloucestershire of Vaughan...
Reviewed by Marc Rochester in issue: 09/2014
MacMillan Chmaber Works
Visions of a November Spring‚ James MacMillan’s First String Quartet‚ was completed in 1988 and already bears many a stylistic...
Reviewed in issue 8/2002
MacMilian Symphony No 3
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra | James MacMillan
Hard on the heels of Universal Classics’ mid-price reissue of Jerzy Maksymiuk’s Gramophone Award-winning first recording of The Confession of...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 5/2005
(The) Shadow Side: Contemporary song from Scotland
Iain Burnside | Irene Drummond
That the range of recent Scottish song is a wide one can hardly be doubted on hearing this disc from...
Reviewed by Richard_Whitehouse in issue: 10/2011
M BATES Mothership. Alternative Energy. The B-Sides. Liquid Interface
Boston Modern Orchestra Project | Gil Rose
A jet engine revs at the start of Mothership (2010) by Mason Bates, something like a spacecraft taking off. (At...
Reviewed by Kate Molleson in issue: 04/2016
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