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Grammy Voting begins Wednesday 11 October 2023

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

First round voting for the Grammy's begins next month and Kenneth Fuchs: Orchestral Works is submitted in seven categories including Best Classical Compendium, Best Contemporary Classical Composititon and Best Orchestral Performances. Find out more about the album here.

This week we will be celebrating the upcoming launch of Oklahoma! from John Wilson and Sinfonia of London at The Savile Cub in Mayfair. This landmark album will be the first full recording of the original Rodgers & Hammerstein score, to commemorate this very special release we have produced a series of limited edition numbered vinlys available to pre-order now! Don't miss this historic album, out on Friday 15th September!

 

Gramophone Awards Shortlist 2023

We are delighted to have FOUR albums shortlisted for the Gramophone Classical Music Awards 2023! See the shortlist here, including albums from Kaleidscope Chamber Collective, Arcadia Quartet, and Sinfonia of London.

 

Gramophone Editor's Choice: October

'Parry's compelling response to Shelley's lyrical drama is given a superb performance of real conviction, conduction by William Vann and with a line-up of starry soloists'

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'Orchestra of the Year' nomination!

Our friends and collaborators BBC Philharmonic have been nominated for Orchestra of the Year at the Gramophone Awards 2023! 

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Artist in Focus
 

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet

he insatiable enthusiasm and artistic curiosity of the French pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet have led him to explore a repertoire ranging from Haydn, Beethoven, Bartók and Prokofiev to contemporary works by composers such as Bruno Mantovani and Jörg Widmann. A former student of Pierre Sancan, he won first prize in the International Beethoven Competition in Cologne as well as the Young Concert Artists Auditions in New Yorkin 1986 and the Steven de Groote Chamber Music Prize at the Van Cliburn Competition in 1989. As well as performing, he has also recently completed a transcription for two pianos of Debussy’s dance poem Jeux, which has just been published by Durand, with a foreword by Pierre Boulez with whom he has maintained a close relationship ever since their first appearance together in 1998, performing Bartók’s Third Piano Concerto with the Orchestre de Paris. 
Bavouzet performs with leading international orchestras such as the Cleveland Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Sydney Symphony, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre national de France and Ensemble orchestral de Paris. Conductors with whom he collaborates include Vladimir Ashkenazy, Valery Gergiev, Daniele Gatti, Sir Andrew Davis, Marc Albrecht, Lawrence Foster, Charles Dutoit, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Andrew Litton, Ingo Metzmacher, Kent Nagano, Zoltán Kocsis, and Vassily Sinaisky. Jean-Efflam Bavouzet has won multiple awards for his project to record Debussy’s Complete Works for Piano, most notably a 2009 BBC Music Magazine Award for Volume 3 and a 2009 Gramophone Award for Volume 4 of the cycle (both in the Instrumental category). Other awards include the 2007 and 2008 Choc de l’année of the magazine Le Monde de la Musique and, for Volume 2, the 2008 Diapason d’or. Jean-Efflam Bavouzet isa Professor for Life in the Piano Department of the Hochschule für Musik in Detmold, Germany.

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“A striking collection of unfamiliar music, most of it not previously recorded, by two fine modern Polish composers… Both these works by Joachim Mendelson are rewarding and both deserve to be heard more widely and played more regularly… Of the performances of all four works all that needs to be said is that the Silesian Quartet are every bit as assured and perceptive as one expects them to be and that the two musicians who join them for the Mendelson Quintet are also excellent.”

“A striking collection of unfamiliar music, most of it not previously recorded, by two fine modern Polish composers… Both these works by Joachim Mendelson are rewarding and both deserve to be heard more widely and played more regularly… Of the performances of all four works all that needs to be said is that the Silesian Quartet are every bit as assured and perceptive as one expects them to be and that the two musicians who join them for the Mendelson Quintet are also excellent.”

Glyn Pursglove – Musicwebinternational.com – 26 September 2023

“…Simon Callaghan is on hand to deliver the stylish and stylistically savvy performances, supported by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales who are on excellent form under the two fine conductors – Stephen Bell, who directs the Jacob and Addison and George Vass, who conducts the Rubbra. Paul Conway’s notes tell us everything we could possibly want to know and this Hoddinott Hall recording, which is splendidly judged acoustically, is made in association with BBC Radio 3.”

“…Simon Callaghan is on hand to deliver the stylish and stylistically savvy performances, supported by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales who are on excellent form under the two fine conductors – Stephen Bell, who directs the Jacob and Addison and George Vass, who conducts the Rubbra. Paul Conway’s notes tell us everything we could possibly want to know and this Hoddinott Hall recording, which is splendidly judged acoustically, is made in association with BBC Radio 3.”

Jonathan Woolf – Musicwebinternational.com – 25 September 2023

Recommended

“… José White’s song La Bella Cubana, which gives the CD its title, is a famous piece, and I love the way it alternates between a slightly melancholy languor and lively Cuban rhythms. Then Joseíto Fernández’ favourite, Guantanamera brings the whole thing to a riotous conclusion – everyone’s having a huge party! …”

Recommended

“… José White’s song La Bella Cubana, which gives the CD its title, is a famous piece, and I love the way it alternates between a slightly melancholy languor and lively Cuban rhythms. Then Joseíto Fernández’ favourite, Guantanamera brings the whole thing to a riotous conclusion – everyone’s having a huge party! …”

Gwyn Parry-Jones – Musicwebinternational.com – 25 September 2023

“…Hamburger Ratsmusik is one of the most prominent ensembles with regard to the exploration of music from northern Germany. Over the years I have heard and reviewed most of their recordings, and I always assessed them positively. That is not any different here. The playing of the strings is immaculate and brings out the best in this music. Simone Eckert has also a good ear for voices, and she has brought together here an exquisite ensemble, which deals well with the requirements of the sacred concertos. The voices blend perfectly, and individually the singers treat the text with the care they require. Diction, articulation and dynamics leave nothing to be desired…”

“…Hamburger Ratsmusik is one of the most prominent ensembles with regard to the exploration of music from northern Germany. Over the years I have heard and reviewed most of their recordings, and I always assessed them positively. That is not any different here. The playing of the strings is immaculate and brings out the best in this music. Simone Eckert has also a good ear for voices, and she has brought together here an exquisite ensemble, which deals well with the requirements of the sacred concertos. The voices blend perfectly, and individually the singers treat the text with the care they require. Diction, articulation and dynamics leave nothing to be desired…”

Johan van Veen – Musicwebinternational.com – 24 September 2023

Classical Album of the Week

“…Remarkably, William Vann’s recording is the first [Prometheus] and, thanks to uniformly superb performances, he makes a strong case for it…” ****

Classical Album of the Week

“…Remarkably, William Vann’s recording is the first [Prometheus] and, thanks to uniformly superb performances, he makes a strong case for it…” ****

Dan Cairns – The Sunday Times – 1 October 2023
“… it is hard to resist the scope of the work and its moments of intense beauty particularly in the vocal movements, rapturously sung by Camila Provenzale – while stylistically it encapsulates much of the history of music in the first half of the 20th century in a very distinctive way.” ****
“… it is hard to resist the scope of the work and its moments of intense beauty particularly in the vocal movements, rapturously sung by Camila Provenzale – while stylistically it encapsulates much of the history of music in the first half of the 20th century in a very distinctive way.” ****
Andrew Clements – The Guardian – 28 September 2023
“… from the first flourish of the Overture, this new studio recording by John Wilson and the Sinfonia of London just nails it…”
“… from the first flourish of the Overture, this new studio recording by John Wilson and the Sinfonia of London just nails it…”
Richard Bratby – Musicals magazine.com – 29 September 2023

**** Excellent Album

**** Excellent Album

Thomas Deschamps – Classica magazine – October 2023
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