Classical Record Productions: Portfolio & Press

Portfolio & Press...

Classical Record Productions has a constantly growing production portfolio and

press profile and this page contains a selection of both:

Press comments...

Classical Record Productions has received much critical acclaim for production, recording and writing work, including 'Editor's Choices' and 'CD of the month' and 5-star reviews in a number of publications including: The Times, The Telegraph, Gramophone Magazine, Classical Music Magazine, BBC Music Magazine, Organists' Review & MusicWeb International. Here is just a small selection of the many reviews, from both the national and specialist music press, on projects by CR Productions:

'Excellent sound ... a disc worth investigating' - Gramophone

(Haflidi Hallgrimsson - Cello Concertos)

'... colourful and imaginative' - Gramophone (Editor's Choice)

(Eddie McGuire - Music for flute, guitar and piano)

'... a virtually perfect release' - International Record Review

(Convocation - Giles Swayne: Choral Works)

'This is a highly successful disc ... superb quality of recording' - Gramophone

(Olivier Messiaen: Les Corps Glorieux)

'It doesn't get any better than this' - The Organ

(Johann Pachelbel: Organ Works Vol. 1)

'The impact is colossal ... It's nothing less than a landmark' - The Herald

(The Edinburgh Quartet: Contemporary String Quartets)

'There's a great sense of place in the recording' - BBC Radio 3, CD Review

(Gabriel Jackson: Sacred Choral Works)

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CR Productions has also worked on a wide number of important premiere recordings of works by contemporary composers, as well as a number of rediscovered or neglected works. Premiere recordings have included works by contemporary composers such as Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Tarik O'Regan, Kenneth Leighton, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Giles Swayne, Howard Skempton, Haflidi Hallgrimsson, Naji Hakim, Gabriel Jackson, Gavin Bryars, Judith Weir, Sally Beamish, Nigel Osborne, Michael Berkeley, John Woolrich, Tansy Davies, Brian Boydell, Thomas Hewitt Jones, sFrancis Jackson, Eddie McGuire, Edward Harper, Rory Boyle, John Maxwell Geddes & Philip Wilby. Of neglected and rediscovered works CR Productions has been involved in recording works by Michael Wise, William Turner, C. Hubert H. Parry, Walter Parratt and William Russell.

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CR Productions growing roster of clients, labels, solo artists,

groups and conductors includes...



Ondine Tom Winpenny	Signum Classics The Dmitri Ensemble
National Youth Choir GB	Carducci Classics
Young Guns	Divine Art
Laudibus	Naxos
Chandos Records	Linn Records
Delphian Records	The Choir of St George's Chapel Windsor Castle
Scottish Chamber Orchestra & Chorus	Haflidi Hallgrimsson
Fell Clarinet Quartet	Voce Chamber Choir
John Storgards	Gordon Ferries
Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama	Truls Mork
Queens' College Chapel Choir, Cambridge	Harkit Records
London Contemporary Orchestra	London Contemporary Orchestra
Cranford Choral Society	The University of Edinburgh
Bradfield College Napier University, Edinburgh	The Rivoli String Quartet Simon Hewitt Jones
The Exon Singers	The Fidelio Trio
Triumvir Productions	Court Lane Music
Thomas Hewitt Jones	Classical Music UK
The Choir of St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh	John Kitchen
The Edinburgh Quartet	Mark O'Keeffe
Naji Hakim	David Wilson-Johnson
Thomas Laing-Reilly	Garry Walker
Bradfield College	Matthew Jones
Robert Irvine	Dominic Saunders
Tewkesbury Abbey Schola Cantorum	Gonville & Caius College Choir, Cambridge
Suzi Digby	Matthew Owens
Carducci Quartet	Nicholas Ashton
Michael Bonaventure	Madeleine Lovell
Benjamin Nicholas	Yorkshire Baroque Soloists
Mr McFall's Chamber	Nicholas Mulroy
Stephen Wallace	David Bednall
Tim Brown	Oliver Coates
Claire Jones	Clare College Choir, Cambridge
Huw Watkins	James Turnbull
Geoffrey Webber	Graeme McNaught
The Maresienne Consort	Glenalmond College
Fali Pavri	Mike Brewer
Graham Ross	Angela Brownridge
St George's Girls' School, Edinburgh	The Rivoli Quartet
The Red Note Ensemble	Timothy Byram-Wigfield
Carleton Etherington	Annique Burms
Abigail James	Nancy Ruffer

CR Productions has received critical acclaim from the following publications and websites:

The American Organist, BBC Music Magazine, BBC Radio 3 CD Review, Cambridge Alumni Magazine, Cathedral Music, Choir & Organ, Choir Schools Today, Church Music Quarterly, The Church Times, Classical Guitar Magazine, Classical Music, Classical Net, Classical Source, Classics Today, Cross Rhythms, Early Music, Early Music Forum of Scotland, Early Music Review, Early Music Today, The Financial Times, Goldberg Magazine, Gramophone Magazine, The Guardian, The Herald, International Record Review, Inverness Courier, The Irish Times, Keeping Track, The List, Lute News, Manchester Evening News, Music in Scotland, Musical Pointers, Musical Opinion, Musicians Union Magazine, MusicWeb International, Organ Live, The Organ, Organists' Review, Scots Magazine, The Scotsman, Scottish Federation of Organists, SPNM, The Sunday Herald, The Sunday Times, The Telegraph, Tempo, The Times, The Wire & The Yorkshire Post.

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CR PRODUCTIONS UK - Producing, engineering, editing, mastering, audio cleaning, webcasting, consultation and writing services.

Both Classical Record Productions and CR Productions are trading names of Adam Binks.

Adam Binks - Director

info@classicalrecordproductions.co.uk - +44 (0)845 676 9706

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