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Special offer. Schütz: Musicalische Exequien
RecommendedMasato Suzuki (organ)
Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier
The 12 voices of Belgian ensemble Vox Luminis put their faith in tonal focus and sweetly balanced textures. Though one might expect from that a certain coolness, their singing produces music-making... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st October 2012
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Recording of the Year
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Building A Library, December 2021, Also Recommended
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Buxtehude, Schütz & Dijkman: Septem Verba & Membra Jesu Nostri
Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé
Vocal forces of just 10 singers supported by the same number of instrumentalists bring a level of intimacy that is entirely appropriate to this programme of 17th-century music reflecting on... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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Record Review, Records of the Year 2021
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Finalist - Choral
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Bach: Cantatas Nos 35 & 169
Iestyn Davies (countertenor), Carolyn Sampson (soprano), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Neal Davies (bass), Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen
they’re the perfect vehicles for the crack team of Iestyn Davies’s extraordinary vocal control and Arcangelo’s nimble-footedness. —
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Record Review, 5th February 2022, Record of the Week
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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Special offer. Schütz: Italian Madrigals
Les Arts Florissants (early music ensemble), Paul Agnew (tenor), Miriam Allan (soprano), Hannah Morrison, Mathilde Ortscheidt, Sean Clayton, Jonathan Sells
Les Arts Florissants’ elasticity of expression brings out a particularly lucid evocation of rolling waves and ‘sweet harmony’ in the concluding eight-voice ‘Vasto mar, nel cui seno fan soave... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Finalist - Early Music
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The famed King’s Singers attention to pin-point pitching, slick ensemble, and deft balances between the voices are present in abundance. The two Beatles arrangements are particularly successful…The... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2017, Editor's Choice
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Grammy Awards, 61st Awards (2019), Nominee - Classical Compendium
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Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem
RecommendedRecorded live at the Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 2008
Katharine Fuge (soprano), Matthew Brook (bass)
Monteverdi Choir & Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, John Eliot Gardiner
The recorded sound has great immediacy, and the chorus produces a beautifully sustained and richly coloured vocal tone. Gardiner's flexibility in tempo, phrasing and dynamics (which Brahms favoured)... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 5th March 2012
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Finalist - Choral
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2012, Editor's Choice
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Vox Luminis’s Florian Sievers is a compassionate Evangelist and Erika Tandiono delivers the Angel’s appearances to the shepherds and Joseph blissfully (her sentimentality shared by dulcetly... —
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Heinrich Schütz: Musikalische Exequien
Capella de la Torre, Katharina Bäuml, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Florian Helgath
I cannot but be gripped by Helgath’s visceral reading, and especially by his choir, who sing with a precision and sympathy that belies their size. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Early Music
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The Feast of the Ascension at Westminster Abbey
Robert Quinney (organ)
The Choir of Westminster Abbey, James O’Donnell
The boys might be singing Stanford's Caelos ascendit hodie, but they could just as easily be trilling ''Woohoo! It's Ascension Day!'' I love such musical joie de vivre, and not every choir is... —
