Presto Editor's Choices - September 2018

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

Watkins, H: Flute Concerto
Watkins, H: Violin Concerto
Watkins, H: Symphony

"One of the most fascinating aspects of this album for me is Watkins’s ingenious approaches to writing for flute and large orchestra, allowing Adam Walker to hover miles above low brass and contrabassoon in some passages, and setting him against muted high strings and/or solo violin in others. The Violin Concerto, despatched with fearless panache by Ibragimova, is more abrasive and overtly virtuosic, but equally worth hearing." - Katherine Cooper, Presto Classical