CD, Bull, J (composer)
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Armstrong’s playing is both expressive and technically brilliant, a combination here in constant demand as the ornamentation is intricate and often dizzyingly fast. And they run the emotional... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2021, Editor's Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2021
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Presto Recording of the Week, 17th December 2021
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Less dramatic [than Kit Armstrong's 2021album] but more even-tempered and sometimes even delightfully sentimental, Momen’s approach is different but no less satisfying. I admired Armstrong’s... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 5th July 2024
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Pienaar displays his collections thematically, connecting dances and variations, imitative and evocative works that suggest battles and birdsong, that paint portraits, tell stories and write... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2020, Instrumental Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2020, Editor's Choice
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In Chains of Gold: The English Pre-Restoration Verse Anthem Vol. 2
RecommendedWilliam Byrd to Edmund Hooper: Psalms and Royal Anthems
Magdalena Consort, Fretwork, His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts, with Silas Wollston (organ)
The underpinning scholarship doesn’t just run to artful reconstructions, teasing missing viol parts out of extant organ sources…The grainy, dark hues of Fretwork’s viols lend extra introductory... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th June 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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For His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts
English music from Henry VIII to Charles II
His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts
These players demonstrate perfectly how a balance of scholarship and expert period performance can restore familiar music to such radiant good health that we wonder how it ever survived before — More…
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superb voicing and clarity of sound. Most pieces are sombre in tone, which Rondeau delivers with a well-judged pinch of melancholy. — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2021, Editor's Choice
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Fretwork takes everything in its expertly burnished stride. Muhly’s provocative vigour is answered by the soulful musings of the Bryars, and a consort respray of Bull’s keyboard In Nomine in... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2020, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2020, Chamber Choice
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Opus Klassik, 2022, Winner - Classical Without Borders
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