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Alec Roth: Sometime I Sing
Music for Voice and Guitar
Mark Padmore (tenor) & Morgan Szymanski (guitar)
Light-footed, lyrical, Roth's settings range from Thomas Wyatt to Vikram Seth. They suit Szymanski's elegant guitar and Padmore's refined tenor, but devitalise folksongs like Scarborough Fair. — More…
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For all that one is used to Hakim’s coruscating brilliance, the sheer technical skill and white-hot intensity of the Hakim imagination in blending these dirge-like themes into music left this... — More…
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A Walk with Ivor Gurney
Dame Sarah Connolly (mezzo soprano) & Simon Callow (narrator)
Tenebrae & Aurora Orchestra, Nigel Short
Connolly shows her characteristic care for words and line…Tenebrae and Aurora cherish their curving lines in the composer’s purest pastoral vein, and Simon Callow is a clear and sympathetic... — More…
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The atmosphere is intimate and confiding; the music presented simply with minimal ornament. Occasionally the long lines of the slower songs can bring a certain smoothing-out of the text, but... — More…
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Praise my soul
Favourite hymns from Jesus College Cambridge
Jesus College Choir Cambridge, Richard Pinel
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The Captive Nightingale
German Romantic Rarities for soprano, clarinet and piano
Elena Xanthoudakis (soprano), Jason Xanthoudakis (clarinet) & Clemens Leske (piano)
I was really captivated like that nightingale; each track seems to be more lovely than the next, and I have to say that this has a lot to do with the artists here; [Elena Xanthoudakis] a real... — More…
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All attractive and enjoyable – the concluding Gloria especially so. — More…
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Williams is entirely on terms with the virtuoso requirements of the Tarantella from Venezia e Napoli...The intricate part-writing of Liszt's transcription from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, too,... — More…
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Beethoven: Lieder und Gesänge
Roderick Williams (baritone), Ann Murray (mezzo) & Iain Burnside (piano)
…the wonderful Roderick Williams… animates and energises everything he does. He sings with relish, makes the most of the words… and infectiously communicates a pleasure that it can’t always... — More…
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The Albion Quartet are both meticulous and persuasive in the somewhat overlong first movement [of No. 5]; they also excel in the soulful slow movement, the gem of the work…Overall this is a... — More…
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