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December 19, 2024 Nicholas Daniel to feature on composer Zoë Martlew’s debut album
November 29, 2024 Nicholas Daniel conducts Serenade to Music at Wigmore Hall
November 28, 2024 CD Review: Schumann Works for Oboe and Piano (Yorkshire Times)
October 31, 2024 CD review: Schumann works for oboe and piano (BBC Music Magazine)
September 26, 2024 CD review: Schumann works for oboe and piano (Classical Music Daily)
August 29, 2024 CD Review: Schumann works for oboe and piano (The Guardian)
June 27, 2024 Review: At the Aldeburgh Festival, Nicholas Daniel plays the Pied Piper of Cool (Bachtrack)
May 30, 2024 Reviews: Maderna Oboe Concerto no.3 – Nicholas Daniel with BBC Symphony Orchestra and Martyn Brabbins
April 30, 2024 Goldscheider, Spence, Britten Sinfonia, Milton Court review – heroic evening songs and a jolly horn ramble
February 28, 2024 Outi Tarkiainen cor anglais concerto – CD review
The Britten Oboe Quartet here makes its recording debut with a programme of its core repertory. It naturally includes the great Mozart Quartet K.370 and Britten’s own Phantasy op.2, but also two pieces that have a special resonance for the distinguished oboist Nicholas Daniel, because they were commissioned and premiered by Janet Craxton (1929-81), his ‘beloved teacher’ and inspiration, and her London Oboe Quartet. Thus Oliver Knussen’s Cantata (1977) and the delightful Cor Anglais Quartet of Jean Françaix add further variety to a fascinating anthology that also features Nicholas Daniel’s own completion of Mozart’s elegiac fragment K580a. Buy/listen to this at Harmonia Mundi Buy this on Amazon