Casken
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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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Eleven choral pieces are collated in this splendidly sung programme by the Joyful Company of Singers directed by their founder, Peter Broadbent...Gems abound throughout the programme, few more... —
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Gramophone Awards, 1991, Winner - Contemporary
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The setting is for all-male vocal quartet — the immaculate Hilliard Ensemble — and a small instrumental ensemble of wind, percussion and harp. The music is at once ancient and modern. There... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, July 2019
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The Times Records of the Year, 2019
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The performers are some of the cream of the younger generation, and as such it is difficult to imagine finer performances than these...This is a terrific, well-filled disc, and one that should... —
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Among the highlights are Mark-Anthony Turnage's unsettling Black Milk (a setting of Paul Celan's Todesfuge, where jazz singer Ian Shaw's grainy vocals are appropriately curdling) and Ninfea... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2022
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…this outstanding issue celebrates 20 years of carols newly commissioned for the annual Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols. The two CDs are stuffed with memorable settings - Jonathan Dove's... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2005, Christmas Special Choice
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This well-filled disc deserves success. It is the perfect way to get to know some truly inventive and stimulating music by one of our most important contemporary composers. It should be snapped... —
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A sense of occasion permeates this recital...Some technical mishaps, but impeccable musicianship. —
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Richard Whalley’s Interlocking Melodies is a stylish, Ligeti-inspired study in whole-tone figuration; John Casken’s self-reflective, eight-minute Choses en moi has a vigour vaguely Viennese;... —
