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Rebecca Clarke Viola Music |
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Label: Naxos
Released 2007
CD length: 78.54
Philip Dukes - Viola
Sophia Rahman - Piano
Daniel Hope - Violin
Robert Plane - Clarinet
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Track List
Viola Sonata (1919)
*Passacaglia (on an old English tune) for viola and piano (c.1941)
* Lullaby for viola and piano (1909)
* Lullaby on an Ancient Irish Tune for viola and piano (1913)
* Morpheus for viola and piano (c.1918)
* Chinese Puzzle for viola and piano (1922)
* I’II bid my heart be still for viola and piano (1944)
* Untitled Piece for viola and piano (c.1918)
* Dumka for violin, viola and piano (c.1941)
* Prelude, Allegro and Pastorale for viola and clarinet (1941) |
Press
BBC Music Magazine **** 2007
“Indeed the disc contains some of the most beautiful viola playing I ever hope to hear. Winner of the coveted European Rising Stars Award in 1995, which led to high prestige recitals throughout Europe, Philip Dukes is technically brilliant, though it is his innate musicianship that is so remarkable. Exceptional sound quality.”
Naxos reviews / January 2007
“Violist Philip Dukes, gives the music the generally passionate performance it deserves.”
James Manheim / Allmusic.com
“Both technically and musically, these are exceptional accounts, with Dukes producing the most alluring sound throughout the register. Another Naxos winner” The Strad May 2007
“This is a very splendidly performed and recorded disc from Naxos that will undoubtedly bring the music of Rebecca Clarke to a wider audience.”
Michael Cookson / MusicWeb International
“Philip Dukes' solid and eminently, easily listenable viola performance. Strongly recommended.”
David Vernier / Classics Today |
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Klein, Krasa and Schulhoff / Forbidden Music |
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Label: Nimbus Records
Released 2003
CD length: 67.14
Catalogue ref: N15702
Philip Dukes - Viola
Daniel Hope - Violin
Paul Watkins - Cello
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This is a story about the power of music. Music written by three Czech composers, each of whom was imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps. It is also a look at the way in which the human mind and its artistic credo react when faced with intolerable circumstances. Can one ever really divorce the context in which such music is composed? Probably not, but then, that is not the issue at stake. Two of these composers were celebrated on the international scene, and the third was about to be discovered as a major talent. What they have written is powerful, unsentimental and uncompromising. It’s as if every single note counted - these men were literally writing for their lives.
Track List:
Gideon Klein: String Trio: Allegro Lento Molto vivace
Ervín Schulhoff: Duo for violin & violoncello: Moderato
Zingaresca. Allegro giocoso
Andantino
Moderato
Hans Krása: Passacaglia & Fuga. String Trio: Passacaglia. Sehr ruhig
Fuga. Allegro molto
Ervín Schulhoff: Sonata for solo violin: Allegro con fuoco
Andante cantabile
Scherzo. Allegretto grazioso
Finale. Allegro risoluto
Hans Krása: Tanec. String Trio: Presto
Duo for violin & violoncello: Allegro con fuoco
Lento
Kaddish |
Performance ***** - Sound ***** |
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Press
“Editor's Choice” – “Three notable composers, murdered in their prime, are commemorated in performances of rare vitality and conviction. Daniel Hope, Philip Dukes and Paul Watkins play their hearts out, Hope especially - and he contributes an eloquent and informative booklet-note. The disc ends with Hope's touching solo rendition of Ravel's Kaddish.
A magnificent CD, whichever way you view it.”
Gramophone Magazine
“High-impact performances: Daniel Hope and his excellent colleagues Philip Dukes and Paul Watkins deserve special plaudits for assembling such an imaginative programme and delivering performances that maximize the impact of the music by exploiting dynamic and textural contrasts to the full.”
BBC Music Magazine October 2003
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Max Bruch / Chamber Works |
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Label: ASV
Released 2002
CD length: 75.21
Catalogue ref: CD DCA 1133
Plane Dukes Rahman Trio
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Track List:
Kol Nidrei for viola and piano, Op.47 (1881)
Romance for viola and piano, Op.85 (1911)
6 Pieces for solo piano, Op.12:
Andante sostenuto / Andante con moto / Allegretto / Moderato /Andante con larghezza
8 Pieces for clarinet, viola and piano, Op.83:
Andante / Allegro con moto / Andante con moto / Allegro agitato Romanian Melody / Nocturne / Andante con moto/ Allegro vivace, ma non troppo / Moderato
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Press
“In this impressive collection of chamber music by Bruch, the Plane Dukes Rahman have once again attained the highest musical standards in their dedicated, sensitive performances…The final ‘8 Pieces’ for clarinet, viola and piano on this disc are full of crystal-clear melodies, highlighted throughout by lyrical sweeps of phrasing in an immaculate performance.”
BBC Classical Review 2003
“ This disc was recorded to mark the 10th anniversary of the Trio in Sept 2002 and represents their ongoing commitment to chamber music, especially since it features three pieces which have never before been recorded. This peaceful, calm work, inspired by a traditional Jewish melody, floats along on the deliciously even tone of Philip Dukes.
Overall, a cd of simple, vivid, romantic beauty. Nothing is over-stated or over-elaborated and the purity wins through in a fantastic album which would make an excellent addition to any collection.”
BBC Radio 3 CD Review: Andrew Mc Gregor |
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Schumann / Kurtag Chamber Music for Clarinet, Viola & Piano |
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Label: ASV
Released 1998
CD length: 66.24
Catalogue ref: CD QS 6221
Plane Dukes Rahman Trio
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Track List:
Märchenerzählungen for clarinet, viola & piano, Op.132
Adagio and Allegro in A flat for viola and piano, Op.70 Fantasiestücke for clarinet and piano, Op. 73
Märchenbilder for viola and piano, Op.113
Hommage à Robert Schumann for clarinet, viola and piano / 6 movements |
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Press
“Hommage a Rsch’..In this the players seem completely at home and give a tremendously vivid rendition, full of huge contrasts and featuring some startling virtuosity.”
BBC Music Magazine 1998
“ASV’s medium-priced Quicksilva series includes a number of brand new recordings of chamber music, giving an invaluable outlet for the young British chamber musicians the company tends to enlist. This is one of the finest…It opens with Marchenerzahlungen, op.132. Such is the richness of the viola tone at the lower end of the register at the opening of this work, that for a moment I thought Philip Dukes was playing a cello. Robert Plane’s clarinet playing is equally ripe, a natural, expressive, liquid sound, and with Sophia Rahman’s responsive piano playing completing the alchemy, the trio give deeply felt readings of this intimate work.”
Sunday Times 1998 |
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Takemitsu - A String Around Autumn |
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Label: BIS
Released 1998
CD length: 59.49
Catalogue ref: CD-1300
Philip Dukes viola / Sharon Bezaly flute / Noriko Ogawa piano - BBC NO of Wales/Tadaaki Otaka
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Track List:
A String Around Autumn
I Hear the Water Dreaming
A Way a Lone II
River run |
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Press
BBC Classical Review 2003 - Performance **** Sound ****
“The performances on this disc show, it can be a rare kind of pleasure to drift along with Takemitsu. The sound-world is often exquisite, the melodic writing deeply seductive. Philip Dukes hints at darker passions in A String around Autumn. Recorded sound is clear but suitably atmospheric.”
Stephen Johnson |
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Stanford – Quartet & Trio No. 1 |
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Label: ASV
Released 1999
CD length: 59.49
Catalogue ref: CD DCA 1056
Pirasti Trio, Philip Dukes - viola
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Track List:
Piano Quartet No. 1 in F, Op. 15
Piano Trio No. 1 in E flat, Op. 35 |
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Press
BBC Classical Review 1999 - Performance **** Sound ****
“ The Stanford CD discography steadily enlarges. This affords considerable satisfaction to admirers of a long-neglected composer whose best music shows itself at once unfailingly attractive, well schooled and distinctive in personality. Irish-born, German-trained and long (at London’s Royal College of Music) the doyen of British composition teachers, he was a conservative neither insular in vision nor lacking in adventurous spirit.”
“Both works come across as real chamber music, well worth getting to know. In these civilised, finely paced readings they seem especially so: the violin tone occasionally grows peaky above the stave, but the assured, unified group style makes this flaw of small account. ASV has already issued the Pirasti’s acclaimed account of Stanford’s Second Piano Trio (alongside works by Bax and Holst). This all-Stanford disc is a worthy successor.”
Max Loppert, The Financial Times |
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Richard Rodney Bennett - Film Music |
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Label: Chandos
Released 2000
CD length: 69.45
Catalogue ref: Chan 9867
BBC Philharmonic, Philip Dukes - viola, Rumon Gamba
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Track List:
Murder On The Orient Express
Far From The Madding Crowd
Lady Caroline Lamb (Philip Dukes, viola)
I. Molto Vivo - Lento - Alla Marcia
II. Maestoso - Andante Con Moto - Poco Agitato - Alla Breve
Tender Is The Night: Nicole's Theme
Enchanted April
Four Weddings And A Funeral: Love Scene
Performance ***** Sound ****** |
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Press
“Best Film Music "Deutsche Schallplattenpreis”
German Record Prize 2001
“I bought this album for the highlight selection, the Elegy for Viola and Orchestra from Lady Caroline Lamb. This piece is pure heaven. The only piece I know that is even somewhat similar is Vaughan-Williams' Flos Campi. The soloist, orchestra and conductor are magnificent in Bennett's work - this is reason enough to own this CD.”
Amazon CD review
“Bennett has arranged his music for the 1972 film Lady Caroline Lamb as an elegy for orchestra and that Cinderella of the orchestra, the viola. His music for this film, which was about Lady Caroline Lamb's disastrous obsessive love for the poet Lord Byron, is distinguished by a very appealing tender romantic melody that is redolent of the Lady's yearning. The work is presented in two movements. Before the love theme is stated in the first of these, there is headlong skittish, neurotic music portraying the rash, foolish woman. Afterwards comes some comically ironical military music of some pomposity, which includes (Lady Lamb's?) sighs before the mood darkens - perhaps signifying Lady Lamb's encroaching madness. The second movement reprises the love music, which becomes the theme for a set of variations: some dreamily nocturnal, some passionate, some troubled. Philip Dukes is a sensitive and refined soloist”
EDITOR’S CHOICE January 2001 – Crotchet Ian Lace
“A cracking addition to the budding Chandos Movies label, and essential listening for film- and British-music fans alike.”
Gramophone on CHAN 9749 – (Rawsthorne)
“Bennett's writing is highly sensitive, with delicate writing for the harp and harpsichord, as well as for the violist. Lovely and memorable ideas bubble up in unforced profusion. The soloist, Philip Dukes, finds the right mournful tone for this story about an aristocratic woman's misguided love for Lord Byron.”
Classic.Net / Raymond Tuttle
“The virtuoso playing of the soloist Philip Dukes makes this piece a delicate pleasure.”
FilmMusic 2000 / Germany |
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Benjamin Britten – Lachrymae, Op.48 |
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Label: Naxos
Released 2005
CD length: 71.46
Catalogue ref: 8557205
Northern Sinfonia Steuart Bedford, conductor
Nicolas Daniel, oboe - Philip Dukes, viola (##)
Catherine Wyn-Rogers, mezzo-soprano(#)
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Track List:
Simple Symphony, Op.4 - 4 movements
Temporal Variations - World Premiere Recording
A Charm of Lullabies (#) - World Premiere Recording
Lachrymae, Op.48a (##)
Suite on English Folk Tunes, Op.90 "A time were was..."
Performance ***** Sound ****** |
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Press
“Lachrymae is the composer’s own orchestral version of a viola and piano work first performed in 1950. A time there was ... started life as a single movement, Hankin Booby, to which Britten later added four more. This CD is entirely equal to the generally very high standard set by the Britten re-issues that have been flowing from Naxos for some time now.”
Gwyn Parry-Jones, MusicWeb, February 2005
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Beamish– Viola Concerto / Cello Concerto / Tam Lin |
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Label: BIS
Released 1995
CD length: 63:03
Catalogue ref: BIS-CD-971
Philip Dukes, viola
Robert Cohen, cello
Swedish Chamber Orchestra
Ola Rudner
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Track List:
Viola Concerto
March Watercolour
The Kingfisher
Low Water
All night a music / Like a needle sewing
Tam Lin
Performance **** Sound *** |
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Press
“In 1995 Philip Dukes made his BBC Promenade Concert debut giving the world première of the viola concerto by Sally Beamish
Since she gave up her day job as a viola player ten years ago, Sally Beamish has emerged as a distinctive composer of richly image-laden music, often tied to a narrative or landscape, but always rising above the merely pictorial. The Viola Concerto, Cello Concerto and Tam Lin all have her particular combination of astringently melancholy lyricism, clean open textures and nervous, energetic rhythm.”
Ivan Hewett
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Hellawell– Inside Story / The Still Dancers/ Quadruple Elegy |
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Label: Metronome
Released 2001
CD length: 76:42
Catalogue ref: MET CD catalogue 1059
Philip Dukes, viola
Clio Gould, violin
BBC Scottish SO
Martyn Brabbins
Vanbrugh String Quartet
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Track List:
Inside Story (written 1999)
The Still Dancers (written 1992)
Quadruple Elegy (in the time of freedom) (written 1990)
Performance ***** Sound ****
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Press
At the 1999 BBC Proms, Philip Dukes, gave the world première of 'Inside Story’.
“Well, this doesn’t happen very often – at least not in the middle of a busy reviewing timetable. No sooner had I got to the end of Piers Hellawell’s Quadruple Elegy than I was reaching for the repeat button. As expected, this intensely lyrical, subtly original music revealed even more the second time around. The final movement of this violin concerto in all but name is particularly fine. Quiet harmonies progress like a slowed-down chorale, while the solo violin cuts across them with wide-spanning figures that echo one another but which never seem quite the same twice. You may sense Stravinsky in the background in all three pieces – in the complex dance-rhythms, in dislocated melodies, in the enriched tonal harmonies – but the effect is quite different. Hellawell has none of Stravinsky’s sadistic humour or straitjacketed ‘objectivity’; instead there’s refined pathos, exhilarating song and something close to a sense of awe.
It’s no surprise to discover that Hellawell finds nature so absorbing: the booklet contains some of his haunting photographs of rock, sand and water formations. A similar delight in sensuous natural geometry can be felt in The Still Dancers, and still more in the final movement of Inside Story. It’s hard to imagine this music better played, notably by the fine string soloists Clio Gould and Philip Dukes.” |
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Martin / Ballades for piano, trombone, viola, cello, saxophone & flute |
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Label: Chandos
CD length: 76:48
Catalogue ref: 9380 DDD
London Philharmonic - Matthias Bamert, conductor
Roderick Elms, piano - Ian Bousfield, trombone
Peter Dixon, cello - Martin Robertson, alto-sax
Philip Dukes, viola - Celia Chambers, flute
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Track List:
Ballade for piano & orchestra
Ballade for trombone and piano
Ballade for cello & small orchestra
Ballade for saxophone and orchestra
Ballade for viola, wind, harp, harpsichord
Ballade for flute, string orchestra and piano
Performance **** Sound ***** |
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Press
“There is really very little to choose between these commendable discs. Bamert manages to draw slightly more out of his performers than Chailly and, along with the piano Ballade, I find the cello and viola Ballades, exclusive to the Chandos disc, to be particularly compelling works. Chailly substitutes the Concerto for Seven Wind Instruments, which finds Martin at his very best, and thus provides enough of a contrast to make this disc a marginally more satisfying all-round experience.” |
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Vaughan-Williams / Flos Campi |
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Label: Chandos
Released 1995
CD length: 78:37
Catalogue ref: 9392 DDD
Philip Dukes, viola
The Sinfonia Chorus
Northern Sinfonia Richard Hickox, conductor
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Track List:
Riders to the Sea - Opera in one act on the play by JM Synge
Household Music (premier recording) / Three preludes on Welsh hymn tunes
Flos Campi (Philip Dukes) / Suite for solo viola, small chorus and small orchestra
Performance ***** Sound **** |
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Press
“This is an excellent CD. Wonderful orchestral work performed by the Northern Sinfonia & conducted by Richard Hickox. Not a very well known piece unfortunately from Vaughan Williams but this CD will introduce you brilliantly to this magnificent work. My favourite piece on this CD is the Flos Campi, performed by this fantastic young British viola player Philip Dukes”
Amazon Reviews
“The disc also includes the premiere recording of Household Music, three Welsh hymn tunes treated broadly in the manner of Dives and Lazarus, and the luxuriantly melismatic suite, Flos campi for viola (Philip Dukes in fine form), choir and orchestra. The Northern Sinfonia plays warmly throughout”
Anthony Payne |
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William Lloyd-Webber / Music Of William Lloyd- Webber |
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Label: ASV
Released 1996
Catalogue ref: B0000030WH
Philip Dukes (viola)
Julian Lloyd Webber (cello)
John Graham-Hall (tenor)
John Lill, Philip Ledger
Sophia Rahman (pianos)
Ian Watson (organ)
Richard Hickox Singers
conducted by Richard Hickox
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Track List:
Sonatina for viola and piano
Seven pieces for piano
Three pieces for cello and piano
Five songs for tenor and piano
Missa Sanctae Mariae Magdalenae
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Press
“A disc of rare delights”
Classic CD |
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart/ String Quintet |
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Label: ASV
Released 1995
Catalogue ref: Non Available
Philip Dukes (viola)
The Locrian Ensemble
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Track List:
String Quintet No.4 in G minor, K516 (32.12mn) 1787
String Quintet No.3 in C. K515 (37.06mn) 1787
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Walter Leigh/ Complete Chamber Works |
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Label: Dutton Laboratories
Released 2005
Catalogue ref: B0006840MO
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Turnia/String Quintet |
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Label: Meridian
Released 1995
Catalogue ref: CD 84443
CD Length: 75:32
Performance **** Sound ****
Philip Dukes viola
Eileen Hulse voice
Roland Roberts violin
Miyako Hashimoto piano
Amigos String Quartet | |
