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The poetic French chansons included here intoxicated the European courts and cities with their ravishingly wistful melodies, delicately intertwined. Gothic Voices and veteran harpist Andrew... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Early Music
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Strauss: Tod und Verklärung, Don Juan, Sechs Lieder Op. 68
RecommendedLouise Alder (soprano), Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Robin Ticciati
When orchestral sonorities and engineering coincide like this, the result in Strauss is thrilling...Ticciati’s winged uplift gilds the afterlife beautifully, while there’s dynamic restraint... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Bach: Partitas (Re-Imagined for Small Orchestra by Thomas Oehler)
Royal Academy of Music Soloists Ensemble, Soloists from The Glenn Gould School, Trevor Pinnock
As is so often the case with arrangements of familiar repertoire, particularly canonical Germanic tonal music, a change of performing media reveals the works anew...Oehler’s craft reveals the... — More…
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Emma Bell gets better and better. This sparkling recording confirms her reputation as one of the most exciting of the younger generation of Handelians. It's the suppleness of the voice that... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2005, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2005, Editor's Choice
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Under the incisive direction of Peter Whelan, the group is on ebullient form as it explores the vogue for the French horn in Scotland…Barsanti emerges as a worthy rival to Handel’s festive verve…Renard’s... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2017, Editor's Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2017
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it's the group's nuance that's transfixing. When textures become sparse, delivery intensifies; when the line expands, the tempo stretches; when counterpoint thickens, articulation is leavened.... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2012, Chamber Choice
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Building A Library, November 2021, Also Recommended
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Bach, J S: Christmas Oratorio, BWV248
RecommendedMary Bevan (soprano), Clare Wilkinson (alto), Nicholas Mulroy (tenor), Matthew Brook (bass) - Cantatas 1, 3, 6), Joanne Lunn (soprano), Ciara Hendrick (mezzo), Thomas Hobbs (tenor), Konstantin Wolff (bass) - Cantatas 2, 4, 5.
Dunedin Consort, John Butt
It has the same sense of freshness as previous releases…[with] a pleasing transparency of texture, and nimbly sprung rhythms under John Butt’s scholarly direction — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd December 2016
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Gibbons: Phantasm
RecommendedConsorts for Viols
Susanna Pell (tenor viol), Asako Morikawa (bass viol)
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Gramophone Awards, 2004, Winner - Early Music
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Building a Library, October 2018, Also Recommended
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The Fitzwilliam Quartet has been working on this music for a long time. The players have wrestled with its quirks and uncovered its marvels…tender warmth radiates from page after page, dialogue... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, Chamber Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Shortlisted - Chamber
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Phantasm brings its distinctively light, luminous and spectral sound to these busy tapestries, and the consort’s translucent textures are enriched in sundry pieces by the velvet warmth of a... — More…
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