More By Artist: Martyn
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JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
King of Kings - Orchestral Transcriptions of Bach BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis, Martyn Brabbins [ Chandos / CD - released 29/Aug/2025 ] Sir Andrew Davis was a talented keyboard player as a child and teenager, and after study with Peter Hurford, at St Albans, he spent four years at the University of Cambridge as organ scholar at King's College, under Sir David Willcocks. It was this... |
ERIK CHISHOLM
Chisholm: Violin Concerto & Dance Suite BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Martyn Brabbins [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Sep/2017 ] A bracing excursion to the Indian subcontinent via the Scottish Highlands: the compelling force of Scottish Modernism that is Erik Chisholm makes a welcome reappearance on Hyperion. Matthew Trusler and Danny Driver are the committed soloists in... |
WILLIAM WALLACE
Creation Symphony & other orchestral works BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 20/Sep/2014 ] "It is incredible that a composer of this strength has been so overlooked. On the evidence of this recording alone he should be treated as a national treasure" (The Scotsman) |
ALEXANDER MacKENZIE
Orchestral Music (incls The Cricket On The Hearth Op. 62 - Overture) BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 1/Jul/2012 ] "[A] splendid disc. The performances … are exemplary, giving Mackenzie's music the best possible opportunity to speak for itself" (The Times) |
PAUL HINDEMITH
Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis & other orchestral works BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Nov/2013 ] 'This is ideal repertoire for the BBCSSO, with its beefy lower strings, its bright, biting brass and searing violins' (The Guardian) |
WILLIAM WALLACE
Symphonic Poems BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 20/Jan/2014 ] William Wallace was a classical scholar, a doctor and eye surgeon, a poet and dramatist, a writer on music and musicians, and the man described by Shaw as 'a young Scotch composer with a very tender and sympathetic talent'. His orchestral... |
FREDERIC LAMOND / EUGEN d'ALBERT
Symphony in A major; Overture 'From the Scottish Highlands' / Overture to 'Esther', Op. 8 BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Martyn Brabbins (conductor) [ Hyperion / CD - released 14/Apr/2004 ] 'Martyn Brabbins and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra do offer vivid accounts that are inspired, insightful, and invigorating and that succeed in capturing the music's strengths. The brass are potent, the strings sumptuous, the winds rich in tone,... |
SIR MICHAEL TIPPETT
Tippett: Symphonies Nos 1 & 2 BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Martyn Brabbins, conductor [ Hyperion / CD - released 16/Mar/2018 ] Tippett's first two published symphonies are mature and confident works dating from the middle of the last century. Coruscating accounts from Martyn Brabbins and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra are sure to win new friends for this marvellous music. |
SIR EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: Enigma Variations & other orchestral works BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins, with Kate Royal (soprano) [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Nov/2016 ] Two much-loved orchestral favourites representing the summit of Elgar's maturity are coupled with three of the lesser-known wartime works, here receiving their rst recordings with the original French texts. Kate Royal is the soprano soloist in 'Une... |
JOHN PICKARD
Pickard: Mass in Troubled Times BBC Singers, Martyn Brabbins, with Chloë Abbott (trumpet), David Goode (organ) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 6/Oct/2023 ] "This is a marvellous collection, featuring impeccable production values and sound of flawless realism in the best BIS tradition. Not to be missed!" Gramophone Editor's Choice Dec 2023 |
BIRTWISTLE
The Mask of Orpheus BBC Symphony Orchestra / BBC Singers / Martyn Brabbins [ NMC / 3 CD - released 1/Jan/2008 ] Birtwistle's awe-inspiring masterpiece is a key work in the development of post-war opera, groundbreaking in its fusion of music, song, drama, myth and electronics. GRAMOPHONE AWARD: Best Contemporary Recording 1998 |
FRANCIS CHAGRIN
Symphonies Nos 1 & 2 BBC Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Feb/2016 ] Francis Chagrin described himself as 'Romanian by birth, British by nationality and cosmopolitan by inclination'. A student of Paul Dukas and Nadia Boulanger, Chagrin wrote prolifically for films but composed for most genres. The two symphonies are... |
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Vaughan Williams: Sinfonia antartica & Symphony No 9 BBC Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins [ Hyperion / CD - released 3/Mar/2023 ] Two late, great Vaughan Williams symphonies: with the 'Antartica' and No 9, Martyn Brabbins and his BBC forces complete a cycle enthusiastically acclaimed by Radio 3 Record Review as 'unmissable'. |
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Vaughan Williams: Symphonies Nos 6 & 8 Roderick Williams (baritone) / BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Martyn Brabbins [ Hyperion / CD - released 7/Oct/2022 ] "Even against formidable competition [in No. 6], Martyn Brabbins impresses handsomely. Nothing is forced - the fury and the anguish, the grandeur and the desolation seem almost to speak for themselves." BBC Music Five Stars |
VIC HOYLAND
Vixen BBC Symphony Orchestra / Martyn Brabbins [ NMC / CD - released 4/Jun/2005 ] "Joyous and ecstatic and searching and evanescent by turns... primitive energy conveyed with the crushing force of a musical juggernaut." BBC Music Magazine 2002 |
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MICHAEL FINNISSY
Red Earth BBC Symphony Orchestra / Martyn Brabbins (conductor) [ NMC / CD - released 1/Jan/2008 ] |
HENRY VIEUXTEMPS
Violin Concertos Nos 1 & 2 Chloe Hanslip (violin) / Royal Flemish Philharmonic, Martyn Brabbins [ Hyperion Romantic Violin Concerto Vol 12 / CD - released 10/Apr/2012 ] "rhythmically taut, meticulously executed performances...few will be able to resist Hanslip's deliciously coquettish handling of the rondo movements of both concertos." (Gramophone) |
PARRY / STANFORD / GURNEY / FINZI
English Orchestral Songs (Parry / Stanford / Gurney / Finzi) Christopher Maltman, baritone / BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Martyn Brabbins, conductor [ Hyperion / CD - released 22/May/2005 ] 'Maltman captures the almost unbearably poignant feeling of these [Gurney] songs' - BBC Music Magazine |
HOWARD SKEMPTON
Howard Skempton: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Christopher Yates (viola) Roderick Williams (baritone) / Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Martyn Brabbins [ NMC / CD - released 28/Mar/2017 ] Perfectly crafted, deceptively simplistic and distinctively individual, Howard Skempton's compositions have a soundworld all of their own. This new full-length album on NMC perfectly displays his experimental, yet sonorous and tonal... |
YORK BOWEN
Bowen: Piano Concertos Nos 3 & 4 Danny Driver (piano) / BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Martyn Brabbins (conductor) [ Hyperion Romantic Piano Concertos Vol 46 / CD - released 1/Nov/2008 ] 'Danny Driver's pianism is fully and eagerly up to Bowen's considerable demands' (BBC Music Magazine) |
