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Alex Potter
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Bach, J S: Mass in B minor, BWV232
RecommendedMaria Keohane (soprano), Joanne Lunn (soprano), Alex Potter (countertenor), Jan Kobow (tenor), Peter Harvey (bass)
Concerto Copenhagen, Lars Ulrik Mortensen
To my mind, Mortensen’s special performance, which is full to the brim with insightful musicianship and has a refreshing avoidance of contrived formulas, comfortably joins Parrott (EMI), Junghänel... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2016, Editor's Choice
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Building a Library, February 2017, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Shortlisted - Baroque Vocal
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Special offer. Handel: Brockes-Passion
Arcangelo (early music ensemble), Alex Potter, Stuart Jackson (tenor), Konstantin Krimmel (baritone), Sandrine Piau (soprano), Andrew Tortise (tenor), Mhairi Lawson (soprano), Matthew Long, Mary Bevan (soprano), Marcus Farnsworth (baritone), David Allsopp, William Gaunt, Jonathan Cohen
You’re in safe hands here. Arcangelo bring their Baroque expertise to this pristine interpretation of Handel’s Brockes Passion. The soloists are fabulous, particularly Sandrine Piau, who shimmers... —
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Record Review, 13th March 2021, Record of the Week
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Sunday Times, 21st March 2021, Disc of the Week
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Record Review, Records of the Year 2021
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Handel: Messiah
RecommendedLucy Crowe (soprano), Alex Potter (countertenor), Michael Spyres (tenor), Matthew Brook (bass), The English Concert & Choir, John Nelson
The theatrical instincts that have served Nelson so well in Berlioz ensure some detailed characterisation such as the semiquaver flurry of beating wings as the angels prepare to impart their... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 22nd December 2023
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Nominated - Choral Recording of the Year
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Special offer. JS Bach: Cantatas Nos. 45 & 198 & Motet 'O Jesu Christ, mein Lebens Licht'
RecommendedDorothee Mields (soprano), Alex Potter (counter-tenor), Thomas Hobbs (tenor), Peter Kooij (bass), Collegium Vocale Gent. Philippe Herreweghe
O Jesu Christ, meins Lebens Licht, is tailor-made for Herreweghe. No one else peels back those tactile homogeneous phrases with quite such luminosity and deep-seated finesse as Collegium Vocale. —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2021, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Finalist - Choral
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New. The First Cantata Year - Vision Bach Vol. 9 - BWV 134.3, 67, 104, 12, 166
Marie Henriette Reinhold (mezzo-soprano), Patrick Grahl (tenor), Tobias Berndt, Alex Potter, Gaechinger Cantorey, Hans-Christoph Rademann
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Special offer. Handel: Dixit Dominus, Laudate Pueri, Nisi Dominus
RIAS Kammerchor, Akademie Für Alte Musik Berlin, Justin Doyle
The vigorous opening movement [of Dixit Dominus] for the chorus, splendidly done, is followed by the continuo-only ‘Virgam virtutis’, smoothly sung by Alex Potter and with a prominent bass... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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Special offer. Vision.bach - the First Cantata Year, Vol. 4 (bwv 138, 95, 48, 162.2, 109, 89, 163)
Gaechinger Cantorey, Hans-Christoph Rademan
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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Special offer. Bach: Cantatas BWV 6, 99 & 147
Alex Potter (soloist), Dorothee Mields (soloist), Peter Kooij (soloist), Guy Cutting (soloist), Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe
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Zelenka: Solo Motets
RecommendedAlex Potter (counter-tenor)
Capriccio Basel Baroque Orchestra, Dominik Kiefer
one is in the company of such an inventive composer, such a stylish orchestra and such a fine singer … [Alex Potter] carefully crafts melodic lines, slowly warming longer notes, adding tasteful... —
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Building A Library, November 2021, Also Recommended
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Vision. Bach, Vol. 8
Patrick Grahl (tenor), Tobias Berndt, Marie Henriette Reinhold (mezzo-soprano), Catalina Bertucci, Alex Potter, Matthias Winckhler, Miriam Feuersinger, Gaechinger Cantorey, Hans-Christoph Rademann
