Browse: Casken (composer)
This page lists all recordings composed by John Casken (b.1949).
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John Casken: The Dream of the Rood The Hilliard Ensemble, Asko, Schönberg Ensemble, Clark Rundell
The setting is for all-male vocal quartet — the immaculate Hilliard Ensemble — and a small instrumental ensemble of wind, percussion and harp. The music is at once ancient and modern. There... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, July 2019
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The Times Records of the Year, 2019
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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... — More…
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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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Among the highlights are Mark-Anthony Turnage's unsettling Black Milk (a setting of Paul Celan's Todesfuge, where jazz singer Ian Shaw's grainy vocals are appropriately curdling) and Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade’s... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2022
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…this outstanding issue celebrates 20 years of carols newly commissioned for the annual Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols. The two CDs are stuffed with memorable settings - Jonathan Dove's... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2005, Christmas Special Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 1991, Winner - Contemporary
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A sense of occasion permeates this recital...Some technical mishaps, but impeccable musicianship. — More…
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The orchestra shows off its own credentials in Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, which starts at a terrific lick, and is incredibly exciting. It takes a little while to settle in rhythmic detail, but... — More…
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As so often in Casken's evocative but rigorous music, the inspiration for Orion Over Farne (1984-86) is Northumberland – the Farne Islands – as well as Greek myth...A disc of vitality and contrast,... — More…
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