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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The ensemble is a coterie of some of the finest early musicians on the scene today – friends who evidently relish the art of musical conversation, the guiding ethos of the English consort tradition. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2024, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 24th May 2024
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2024, Chamber Choice
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This King Arthur is a giddy triumph for its artists. Blazing their way through the score, the performers set a new benchmark, delivering a production that’s equally gutsy and gorgeous…Dance... — More…
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Record Review, 12th January 2019, Disc of the Week
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2019, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2019, Editor's Choice
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Purcell: King Arthur
RecommendedAnna Dennis, Mhairi Lawson, Rowan Pierce, Carolyn Sampson (sopranos), Jeremy Budd (high tenor), James Way (tenor), Roderick Williams (baritone), Ashley Riches (bass-baritone)
Gabrieli Players, Paul McCreesh
Choruses are more vibrant, dance rhythms more percussive and solos more delicate than in any previous recording. Above all, McCreesh and his artists make us hear Purcell’s genius for word-setting…But... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2019, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Opera, February 2020, Disc of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2020, Winner - Opera
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2020, Recording of the Year
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2020
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Shortlisted - Opera
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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 Winners, Concept Album of the Year
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Special offer. Serpent & Fire
RecommendedAnna Prohaska (soprano)
Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini
a maddening, fascinating and often bewitching disc — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Finalist - Recital
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International Classical Music Awards, 2017, Winner - Baroque Vocal
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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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The Sound of the Trumpet
RecommendedPeter Hurford (organ), Alan Stringer (trumpet), Gwynne Howell (bass), John Wilbraham (trumpet), Philip Jones (trumpet), Leslie Pearson (organ)
The Michael Laird Brass Ensemble, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Philip Jones Brass Ensemble, London Festival Orchestra, Sir Neville Marriner,...
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Victorious Love - Songs by Henry Purcell
RecommendedCarolyn Sampson (soprano), Laurence Cummings (harpsichord & spinet), Elizabeth Kenny (archlute / theorbo), Anne-Marie Lasla (bass viol), Sarah Sexton (violin I), Andrea Morris (violin II) & Jane Rogers (viola)
Her tone is extraordinarily beautiful: natural, warm and unforced, with almost superhuman vocal athleticism — More…
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Building a Library, February 2014, Top Recital Recommendation
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2007, Editor's Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Approaching the repertoire with a shared musical vision, they produce ravishingly expressive accounts from curtain up to lights down...De Swarte plays a noble Jacob Stainer violin from 1665... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2021, Chamber Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Winner - Baroque Instrumental
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Chamber
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