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BBC Music Magazine Awards, Purcell (composer)

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  • Purcell: King Arthur

    Purcell: King Arthur

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    Anna 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... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2019, 5 out of 5 starsMore…
    • Release Date: 25th Oct 2019
    • Catalogue No: SIGCD589
    • Label: Signum
    • Length: 95 minutes

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  • Battle Cry: She Speaks

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    Helen Charlston, Toby Carr

    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... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2022, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 5 out of 5 stars (Recording)More…
    • Release Date: 27th May 2022
    • Catalogue No: DCD34283
    • Label: Delphian
    • Length: 57 minutes

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  • Tutta sola

    Tutta sola

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    Rachel Podger (violin)

    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... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2022, 5 out of 5 starsMore…
    • Release Date: 28th Oct 2022
    • Catalogue No: CCSSA44422
    • Label: Channel Classics
    • Length: 67 minutes

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    Format: Hybrid Multi-channel

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  • The Mad Lover

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    Theotime Langlois de Swarte (violin), Thomas Dunford (lute)

    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... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2021, 5 out of 5 starsMore…
    • Release Date: 20th Nov 2020
    • Catalogue No: HMM902305
    • Label: Harmonia Mundi
    • Length: 80 minutes

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  • Innocence: Echo Vocal Ensemble

    Innocence: Echo Vocal Ensemble

    Ben Munden (tenor), Anna Semple (contralto), Hilary Cronin (soprano), Margaret Lingas (soprano), Echo Vocal Ensemble, Sarah Latto

    Here is a deeply satisfying, centuries-spanning, thought-provoking debut album by the fine choral ensemble Echo...The highlight of the album is Howard Skempton’s luminous Yeats setting ‘He wishes... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2024, 5 out of 5 starsMore…
    • Release Date: 26th Jul 2024
    • Catalogue No: RES10346
    • Label: Resonus Classics
    • Length: 54 minutes

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  • RE:BUILD

    RE:BUILD

    Slide Action

    Deliberate and fresh exploration unique to this set of instruments is what this ensemble is all about – producing uncompromising and outstandingly mastered dynamics, slide control, multiphonics... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2024, 5 out of 5 starsMore…
    • Release Date: 11th Oct 2024
    • Catalogue No: NMCD289
    • Label: NMC
    • Length: 51 minutes

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  • Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z629

    Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z629

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    Lucy Crowe (Juno/Mystery), Claire Debono (Spring/First Fairy), Anna Devin (Second Fairy), Helen-Jane Howells (Eve), Carolyn Sampson (Night), Robert Burt (Mopsa), Sean Clayton (Summer), Ed Lyon (Secrecy/Adam), Adrian Ward (Autumn), Lukas Kargl (Phœbus), Desmond Barrit (Drunken Poet), Andrew Foster-Williams...

    Jonathan Kent's joyous Glyndebourne production burst[s] with opulent stagecraft...Kent is abetted by William Christie in the pit, a man of the theatre down to his gainfully-employed fingertips...Altogether... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2010, 5 out of 5 starsMore…
    • Release Date: 26th Apr 2010
    • Catalogue No: OABD7065D
    • Label: Opus Arte
    • Series: Glyndebourne

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  • Andreas Scholl: Purcell - O Solitude

    Andreas Scholl: Purcell - O Solitude

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    Andreas Scholl (countertenor), with Christophe Dumaux (countertenor)

    Accademia Bizantina, Stefano Montanari

    Ethereal yet visceral, Scholl's voice is the dream vehicle for Purcell...Stefano Montanari coaxes thrilling playing from Accademia Bizantina, who dance and swagger, throb and pulsate with true... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2011, 5 out of 5 starsMore…
    • Release Date: 17th Jan 2011
    • Catalogue No: 4782262
    • Label: Decca
    • Length: 76 minutes

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  • Night Passages

    Night Passages

    Martin Fröst (clarinet), Sébastien Dubé (double bass), Roland Pöntinen (piano)

    • Release Date: 22nd Apr 2022
    • Catalogue No: 19439917402
    • Label: Sony
    • Length: 52 minutes

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  • Night Passages

    Night Passages

    Martin Fröst (clarinet), Sébastien Dubé (double bass), Roland Pöntinen (piano)

    The album makes a welcome change from the endless recycling of clarinet warhorses elsewhere in the catalogue. Plaudits to Sony for giving Fröst freedom to traverse this breadth of repertoire,... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2022, 5 out of 5 starsMore…
    • Release Date: 22nd Apr 2022
    • Catalogue No: G0100045976027
    • Label: Sony
    • Length: 52 minutes

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