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Elizabethan lute songs & Purcell: Birthday Odes for Queen Mary
James Bowman, Robert Spencer, Dennis Nesbitt, Oliver Brookes, Norma Burrowes, Charles Brett & Robert Lloyd
The Early Music Consort of London, David Munrow
Pleasant 1970s accounts, though James Bowman’s countertenor voice has been overshadowed by recent, more flexible, rivals, and the perky but sedate speeds of the Birthday Odes now seem cautious. — More…
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A Christmas Celebration
David Hill/Winchester Cathedral Choir, Donald Sweeney/Winchester Cathedral Choir/David Hill, Donald Sweeney (bass), Winchester Cathedral Choir/David Hill, Kenan Burrows/Winchester Cathedral Choir/David Hill, Stephen Barton/Hugh Hudleston/Warren Trevelyan-Jones/Francis Pott/Winchester Cathedral Choir/David...
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Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem, Op. 45
Natalie Dessay (soprano) & Ludovic Tézier (baritone)
Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra & Swedish Radio Choir, Paavo Järvi
Järvi's beautifully judged tempos and pacing...find the natural breadth and pulse of Brahms's word setting. Whether sowing in tears of reaping in joy, whether withering as grass, or bearing... — More…
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Boulez : Orchestral & Chamber Works
Pierre Boulez, Phyllis Bryn-Julson (soprano vocals), Elizabeth Laurence (contralto vocals), BBC Singers (chorus), Jeanine Tétard (cello), Pierre Degenne (cello), Jean-Luc Bourre (cello), Hikaru Sato (cello), Etienne Péclard (cello), Guy Besnard (cello), Albert Tétard (cello), Pierre-Laurent Aimard...
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Emmanuelle Haïm and Natalie Dessay are very much equal partners in two of Handel's Italian cantatas which display the virtuosity of solo instrumentalists every bit as much as that of the human... — More…
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Venetian Church Music
Emily van Evera (soprano), Randi Stene (contralto), Jeffrey Thomas (tenor)
Taverner Consort, Choir & Players, Andrew Parrott
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All those excerpts [Rigoletto, Macbeth, Don Carlo, La Traviata and I Lombardi], in a slightly resonant acoustic, show Villazon to be a master Verdian, able to realise the composer’s intentions... — More…
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Berlioz: La Mort d'Orphée, Chant guerrier & Chant sacré
Joël Suhubiette & Rolando Villazón
Les Elements & Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, Michel Plasson
Berlioz rarities show his idiosyncratic genius rising to diverse challenges...Rolando Villazón is the fully-involved soloist. — More…
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