Panufnik, R
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From Emily Howard’s elegant, linear melody to Sally Beamish’s craggy soundscape, Humphreys channels Paganini’s virtuosity. She also displays playfulness and a light touch in pieces such as... —
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AllMusic, Editor's Choice, May 2022
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Winner - Premiere
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This is an ingenious and moving collection of pieces framed as the interplay between light and dark, and moving across the spectrum of such experiences...The harmonic languages of these pieces... —
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2025, Choral Choice
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The NMC Songbook
RecommendedSopranos - Claire Booth, Ailish Tynan, Elizabeth Atherton
Mezzo-sopranos - Susan Bickley, Loré Lixenberg, Jean Rigby
Countertenors - James Bowman, Michael Chance, Andrew Watts
Tenors - Andrew Kennedy, Daniel Norman, Benjamin Hulett
Baritones - Stefan Loges, Roderick Williams,...
…anyone listening to these discs will find many things to savour… It is, inevitably an eclectic mix, but, as in any well-planned song recital, the progressions and juxtapositions are continually... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th April 2009
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Winner - Contemporary
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The Agnus Dei by Tarik O’Regan, an ethereal and exquisitely worked setting, is worthy to stand alongside O taste and see, the communion anthem composed by Vaughan Williams for the 1953 coronation. —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023, Shortlisted - Technical Achievement
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2023, Technical Achievement
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Lament & Liberation
Kevin Ke (soprano), Samuel Smith (soprano), Montague Tatnell (soprano), Ingrid Birchall (soprano), Joseph Hancock (soprano), Arthur Cobb (soprano), Alice Markham (vocalist), James Gant (tenor), Martha Gritten (soprano), Matthew Monaghan (vocalist), Alexander Robson, Choir of St John's College Cambridge,...
Christopher Gray’s first album with St John’s College is an unflinchingly serious programme of contemporary music, ambitious and challenging for both singers and listeners alike...The choir’s... —
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2025, Choral Choice
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Roxanna Panufnik: Love Abide
Colla Voce Singers, VOCES8 & London Mozart Players
Barnaby Smith, Lee Ward, David Ogden
A rich offering on a theme of interfaith connectivity. The Japanese lullaby-inspired Zen Love Song and title work Love Abide are totally absorbing. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Contemporary Music
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Although Tamsin Little isn’t a Baroque specialist there is some influence from historically informed performance: rubato is used discreetly, and vibrato, although more present than might be... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2016, Editor's Choice
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The Call: More Choral Classics from St John’s
Alison Martin (harp)
Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge, Andrew Nethsingha
Anybody with deep affection for the more noble anthems of the Anglican tradition will need no excuse to grab a copy of this tasty selection, especially so when it features performances of such... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2015, Editor's Choice
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Upheld by Stillness
RecommendedRenaissance gems and their reflections - Volume 1: Byrd
ORA, Suzi Digby (artistic director and conductor)
ORA is made up of some of the UK’s finest consort singers, sitting to my ears somewhere between The Sixteen and Tenebrae…The melancholy severity of Byrd’s original is beautifully measured, ORA... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th February 2016
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The Music of Westminster Cathedral Choir
Andrew Reid (organ), James O'Donnell (organ), Iain Simcock (organ)
Westminster Cathedral Choir, David Hill
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