Helen Charlston
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Charlston's mezzo is as dark and full-bodied as a good claret, and she offers highly expressive readings of the texts, plumbing their depths with cut-glass diction and a glorious range of colours... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2022
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2022, Choral & Song Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Winner - Vocal
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Gramophone Awards, 2023, Concept Album of the Year
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The Honour of William Byrd Helen Charlston (mezzo-soprano), Ibrahim Aziz, Alison Kinder, Kate Conway, Sam Stadlen, Jennifer Bullock, Harry Buckoke
Chelys Consort of Viols
Whether or not these vocal works were meant to be sung by male singers is debateable, but Helen Charlston’s rich, deep timbre make such distinctions irrelevant. Supple, controlled and vibrato... — More…
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Ēriks Ešenvalds: Northern Lights
& other choral works
with Rachel Ambrose Evans (soprano), Hannah Partridge (soprano), with Michael Craddock (bass), with Sally Pryce (harp), with Jamie Roberts (tenor), with Hannah King (soprano), Jonathan Pacey (bass), Zane Šmite (jaw harp), with Anna Cavaliero (mezzo-soprano), with Helen Charlston (mezzo-soprano),...
One of the chief pleasures of this CD is right at the beginning - the silvery duetting of Rachel Ambrose Evans and Hannah Partridge...Their fluid delivery of the little grace notes is delectable,... — More…
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An Elizabethan Christmas RecommendedByrd, Holborne, Gibbons, Peerson, Weelkes
Fretwork, Helen Charlston
The songs are interspersed with short instrumental pieces, including two genial fantasies ‘for ye great dooble bass’ by Gibbons. All are played with Fretwork’s typical attunement to the sensibilities... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 3rd December 2021
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Yulefest! Christmas music from Trinity College Cambridge
Trinity College Choir Cambridge, Stephen Layton
All the popular selections…sound notably relaxed and idiomatic, the choir's stylistic versatility confidently demonstrated. — More…
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Bach, J S: Mass in B minor, BWV232 Katherine Watson (soprano), Helen Charlston (mezzo-soprano), Iestyn Davies (countertenor), Gwilym Bowen (tenor), Neal Davies (bass)
Trinity College Choir Cambridge, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Stephen Layton
[Iestyn Davies] discharges a beautifully inflected ‘Qui sedes’, impeccably warmed and coloured by a discreet vibrato that instinctively knows its expressive place…Watson’s soaring soprano also... — More…
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There are many lovely things about this album including some delightful instrumental playing, but some of the solo work and chorus vocal balance could be tighter. — More…
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Jommelli: Missa pro Defunctis, Libera me & Miserere
Valerio Contaldo, Gaia Petrone, Daniel Johannsen, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Miriam Feuersinger, Sebastian Myrus, Helen Charlston, Gudrun Sidonie Otto
Il Gardellino, Niccolò Jomelli, Peter Van Heyghen
It’s a fascinating work, perhaps inevitably straddling the twilight of the Baroque period and the dawning of the Classical, its scoring for strings and organ situating its sound world closer... — More…
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