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CD, Strozzi (composer)
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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... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2022
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2022, Choral & Song Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Winner - Vocal
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Winners, Concept Album of the Year
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The creative and attentively researched programme knits together musical and textual threads into a fast-moving sequence...Orliński carries off the programme with great élan: his bell-like voice... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2023, Choral & Song Choice
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Sunday Times, 10 Best Classical Albums of 2023
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2024, Winner - Vocal
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Accademia dell’Annunciata’s lineup of two violins, cello, theorbo, double harp and harpsichord lends the music a shimmering sweetness that’s perhaps more sumptuous than the composer would have... —
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The exquisitely pure-toned performance α of Hildegard von Bingen's O viridissima, Virga at the outset makes clear that this will be a special recital...Christopher Lowrey elicits expressively... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Issue 2025, Christmas Choice
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The Red Priest’s cello concertos flaunt Kobekina’s electrifying virtuosity and the high-octane playing of the Basel Chamber Orchestra under violinist Julia Schröder’s spirited direction. Yet... —
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Winner - Young Talent of the Year
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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New. Barbara Strozzi: A portrait in Five Acts
Duets for Two Sopranos
Dorothee Mields (soprano), Hana Blažiková (soprano), Hathor Consort, Romina Lischka
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Heroines of Love and Loss
vocal chamber music from the 17th century
Ruby Hughes (soprano), Mime Yamahiro Brinkmann (cello) & Jonas Nordberg (lute / theorbo / archlute)
Ruby Hughes’s soprano has an effortless beauty: pliant, subtly expressive, never forced. She captures the chaste fervour of the sacred works…Brinkmann and Nordberg proffer aptly spontaneous... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2017, Editor's Choice
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Electric Fields
Barbara Hannigan (soprano), Katia Labèque (piano), Marielle Labèque (piano), David Chalmin (synths and electronics)
Hannigan floats serenely above the glittering, increasingly frenzied muscularity of Dessner’s ‘O orzchis Ecclesia’, though his ‘O nobilissima viriditas’ ultimately spills over into less convincing... —
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Barbara Strozzi: Voices of Longing - Love Songs From 17th Century Venice
Emily Owen (soprano), Jenni Harper (soprano), Satoko Doi-Luck, Toby Carr, Ceruleo
the voices are pliant and ingratiating, and both singers cope gracefully with the composer’s florid and wide-ranging vocal lines. The three instrumentalists offer poised and thoughtful ensembles... —
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These formidable chamber musicians range effortlessly through the centuries and around the globe, recognising no stylistic boundaries. Their mesmerising soundworld is supported by a glowing,... —
Awards:
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2022, Editor's Choice
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