Sarah Fox
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Parry: Scenes from Shelley's 'Prometheus Unbound'
RecommendedSarah Fox (soprano), Dame Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), David Butt Philip (tenor), Neal Davies (baritone), Crouch End Festival Chorus, London Mozart Players, William Vann
Vann has mustered a fine team of soloists. Neal Davies is a commanding Prometheus, while David Butt Philip relishes the ringing Wagnerian Heldentenor declamation Parry allots to Jupiter...Vann’s... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2023, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023, Shortlisted - World Premiere Recording (Rediscovery)
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Shortlisted - Choral
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Finalist - Choral
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Parry: Judith
RecommendedSarah Fox (soprano), Kathryn Rudge (mezzo-soprano), Toby Spence (tenor), Henry Waddington (bass-baritone)
Crouch End Festival Chorus, London Mozart Players, William Vann
On the evidence of these CDs, conductor William Vann totally believes in this piece; he offers a compelling reading, drawing from the excellent Crouch End Festival Chorus and LMP (all of whom... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 21st February 2020
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Record Review, 7th March 2020, Record of the Week
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2020, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Shortlisted - Choral
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Nimrod Borenstein: Shakespeare Songs; Mandolin Concerto; Oboe Concerto
Sarah Fox (soprano), Alon Sariel (mandolin), Sanja Romić (oboe), English Chamber Orchestra, Nimrod Borenstein
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Despite its monumental aspect the Sinfonia mistica is essentially a personal, intimate work, and it gets a moving performance here, Richard Hickox judging to a nicety the various movements'... —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Sarah Fox: Mozart Concert Arias
Sarah Fox (soprano), Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla Y León, Roberto Forés Veses, Malcolm Martineau (piano)
As one might expect, Fox's singing is consistently lovely, with the familiar silvery gleam in her upper registers much in evidence, though there's warmth lower in the voice when it's needed. —
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Messe da Pacem: Music By Pierre Villette, Yves Castagnet and Ravel
Andrew Dewar, Sarah Fox (soprano), Liam Condon, Royal Holloway Choir, Rupert Gough
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Parry: Twelve Sets of English Lyrics Volume III
Sarah Fox (soprano), Roderick Williams (baritone), Andrew West (piano)
These perceptive performances by both singers and their pianist recover even the sense and sensibility of those songs which seem distant from our time…Hearing this brings us closer to understanding... —
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2019, Choral & Song Choice
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The Sky Shall Be Our Roof
Rare songs from the operas of Ralph Vaughan Williams
Sara Fox (soprano), Juliette Pochin (mezzo-soprano), Andrew Staples (tenor), Roderick Williams (baritone) & Iain Burnside (piano)
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
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Vaughan Williams: Dona nobis pacem & Hough: Missa Mirabilis
Christopher Maltman (baritone), Sarah Fox (soprano)
Colorado Symphony Chorus & Colorado Symphony, Andrew Litton
Vaughan Williams's Dona nobis pacem is a work that wastes no time cutting to the quick, and nor does this performance of it: in the opening Agnus Dei soprano Sarah Fox is immediately intense... —
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