Huw Watkins: Flute Concerto, Violin Concerto & Symphony Alina Ibragimova, Adam Walker, Hallé Orchestra & Ryan Wigglesworth

• Huw Watkins (b.1976): Flute Concerto:
• 1 Flute Concerto: I. Allegro molto 07:05
• 2 Flute Concerto: II. Andante 07:12
• 3 Flute Concerto: III. Allegro molto 08:02
• Violin Concerto:
• 4 Violin Concerto: I. Allegro molto (Live) 07:13
• 5 Violin Concerto: II. Andante (Live) 08:37
• 6 Violin Concerto: III. Allegro molto (Live) 06:35
• Symphony:
• 7 Symphony: I. Allegro molto 10:49
• 8 Symphony: II. Lento 11:05
• Total Runtime 01:06:38

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Watkins is one of today’s leading composer-pianists and this album (his second for NMC Recordings) showcases his vibrant, lyrical and impeccably crafted orchestral writing. Both the Flute and Violin Concertos were composed for soloists with whom he already had a close working relationship. Adam Walker is the principal fl autist for the London Symphony Orchestra, who Watkins' describes as having an 'amazing sound and control of his instrument'. The delicate orchestration in the Flute Concerto allows the solo fl ute to take fl ight as it weaves in and out with skittish motifs. Alina Ibragimova is the soloist in the Violin Concerto, premiered at the BBC Proms in 2010. The piece harnesses Ibragimova’s dynamic and intense, fi ercely intelligent playing, switching from attacking virtuosity and molten lyricism, often in an instant. The result is dramatic and utterly compelling.In this album's liner notes, Steph Power writes that Watkins has 'long seemed a symphonist in waiting, with a natural affi nity for big-boned yet fi nely-wrought drama'. Cast in two movements, Huw Watkins’ Symphony does not strictly adhere to classical symphonic form. Rather, the composer interprets this great tradition through his development of ideas and use of the orchestra. The result is a thrilling, huge and percussive sound, brimming with excitement and energy.

"Three scores uniting a powerful imagination and craft. The 2010 Violin Concerto, beautifully interpreted with the soloist Alina Ibragimova and Gardner in its Proms world premiere, has an impassioned andante. The alluring three-movement Flute Concerto (2013) puts strange expressive weight on birdsong-like curlicues, but Adam Walker’s superb solo playing carries it." (Sunday Times)

Adam Walker, flute
Alina Ibragimova, violin
Hallé Orchestra
Ryan Wigglesworth, conductor
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner, conductor

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