Discography
See Philip Dukes' most popular discs, including Chamber, Viola and Orchestral/Concerti, Film & TV and Contemporary Music.
Popular Releases
Rebecca Clarke
Viola Music
Rebecca Clarke’s music is often described (along with that of Vaughan Williams) as English impressionism, but her style ranges from lush post-romantic (as in the passionate Viola Sonata, her best-known work) to the taut neo-classicism of Stravinsky (as heard in her Prelude, Allegro, and Pastorale).
Brahms and Schumann
Philip Dukes and Peter Donohoe
‘Dukes’s powerful tone, with its mixture of sweetness and sinew reminds me of William Primrose and he puts it to good use in the surging phrases of the F minor Sonata’s opening Allegro appassionato. The chiselled clarity of Peter Donohoe’s playing proves an excellent foil for Dukes’s robust lyricism, and where Brahms’s syncopations threaten to throw the piano part off course, Donohoe’s firm grip turns these few bars into a brief adrenaline rush.
- Gramophone Magazine
Elegy
National Symphony Orchestra
“ Elegy ,” performed by Philip Dukes with the National Symphony Orchestra, is a deeply poetic and luminous recording and is described by Quartz Music as “infused with something of the ethereal, the timeless, and the indefinable.”
Wolf Hall
Debbie Wiseman - BBC
Wolf Hall was the most keenly anticipated BBC drama for 2015. Based on the Booker Prize-winning novels of Hilary Mantel its all-star cast includes Mark Rylance, Damian Lewis, Claire Foy and Jonathan Pryce. The six part serial presents an intimate portrait of Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII’s chief minister and confidante. Leading British film and TV composer Debbie Wiseman in her sixth collaboration with BAFTA Award winning director Peter Kosminsky has created a highly original score mixing Tudor instruments with modern to create the austere and vivid musical atmosphere of the time.
