Fretwork
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The choir is at its best in the full choral works such as the anthem ‘Turn Our Captivity’ where they impressively shape and unfold the music...this is a significant and welcome addition to Byrd’s... — More…
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Record Review, 8th October 2022
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2022, Recording of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2023, Finalist - Early Music
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Fretwork’s approach is generally weightier and more introspective [than Phantasm's] – a mood enhanced by Signum’s closer recorded balance. Fretwork captures the brooding quality of the minor-mode... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 14th January 2022
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2022
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From Weelkes we have the immensely subtle Hark all ye lovely saints, set to springy, vertiginous changes of metre beautifully negotiated by the singers, and his In nomine a 4, performed in a... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2023, Choral & Song Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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Everywhere [Skinner] negotiates an ear-opening path through the changing shapes and densities of Tallis’s ever-fluid formulations; the polyphony is delineated with laser-sharp precision, and... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2017
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2018, Concerto Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2018, Recording of the Month
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2018, Nominated - Vocal/Choral
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The players envelop you in a sound here silky, there velvety. Fluid tempos highlight that lyrical ‘flowing vein’ that Jenkins’s contemporaries so admired, and the balance slightly favours the... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2018, Chamber Choice
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From the very first track (Tunder’s ‘Salve mi Jesu’) we encounter the central delight of this recording – the pure, clear countertenor voice of Iestyn Davies. His sense of phrasing and awareness... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Voice & Ensemble
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Building a Library, May 2003, First Choice
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Building a Library, October 2017, Also Recommended
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George Benjamin: Three Inventions
Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano)
Fretwork, London Sinfonietta, London Philharmonic Orchestra, George Benjamin
Sudden Time, originally issued as a CD single, is here reissued in the context of a range of other works which underline its distinctive textural refinement and expressive conviction. UponSilence... — More…
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In Nomine: 16th Century English Music for Viols
Including the Complete Consort Music of Thomas Tallis
Fretwork
It is one of the loveliest albums of English viol music I can remember hearing — More…
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…Kirkby highlights the poetry of the texts through her crisp diction and sincerity. The dynamic range of Fretwork is stunning, its tone vibrantly rich and its careful paragraphing and sensitive... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2005, Choral & Song Choice
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