Purcell
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the most striking aspects of Podger’s playing throughout this recital (compared to most 20th-century ‘golden-agers’), is her enhanced range of tone and articulation, her vastly more flexible... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2022
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Recording of the Year
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Winner - Instrumental
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Winner - Solo Instrumental
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Finalists, Finalist - Instrumental
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He uses the capabilities of the modern Steinway judiciously, maintaining some of the qualities of the spinet and harpsichord of Purcell’s time whilst using but not over-using the vast tonal... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 30th August 2024
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Chance’s tone is pellucid; notes fall round and clear as water drops...a recording in which Chance stakes serious claim to the title of his generation’s most exciting British countertenor. — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2023
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2023, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Nominated - Young Talent of the Year
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Special offer. Pavans and Fantasies from the Age of Dowland
RecommendedJohn Holloway (violin, viola), Monika Baer (violin, Renate Steinmann (violin), Susanna Hefti (viola), Martin Zeller (bass violin)
Dowland himself was prepared to countenance performances with violin consort. This is the less familiar route Holloway and his colleagues have chosen, deploying four violas atop a bass violin...The... — More…
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Building a Library, October 2017, Also Recommended
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International Classical Music Awards, 2015, Winner - Baroque Instrumental
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Watkins’s cycle shares Britten’s ability to meld text and musical gesture with an acuity seemingly effortless, almost plucked ready-formed out of the air...An exquisite release touched with... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2022
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2023, Recording of the Month
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Coming soon. Bill & Friends
William Christie, Gwendoline Blondeel, Juliette Mey, Théotime Langlois de Swarte
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Nowadays, Fretwork takes a brisker view of the music though not perhaps a crisper one where matters of articulation are concerned. The playing in its new recording, with partly different personnel... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2009, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Winner - Baroque Instrumental
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This eclectic, if not eccentric song recital by the musically promiscuous French countertenor Philippe Jaroussky should not work. That it does, and so convincingly, is down to the fastidious... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th October 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Special offer. Le Concert Des Oiseaux. Vincent Bouchot: Le Carnaval Des Animaux En Péril
La Rêveuse, Florence Bolton, Benjamin Perrot
In all, a fine testament to both the eclectic timbral diversity of earlier instruments and the versatility of La Rêveuse. — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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