CD, Schütz (composer)
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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... — More…
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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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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)... — More…
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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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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... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Finalist - Early Music
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What hits you first and leaves you last when listening to this project is the astonishing, exhilarating musicianship of these singers…there’s no arguing with tuning that electrifies even the... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2017, Editor's Choice
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The Yale Schola Cantorum comprises roughly 30 singers and a dozen instrumentalists, but they sound light and bright nonetheless. They make a fine impression in the opening Hodie Christus natus... — More…
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Bach: Cantatas Nos 35 & 169
Iestyn Davies (counter-tenor), 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. — More…
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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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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... — More…
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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... — More…
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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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