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Download, Isaac (composer)
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Early Music
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Finalists, Shortlisted - Early Music
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From the outset, performing with one voice to a part, the malevoice ensemble The Gesualdo Six brings the intimacy and detail of consort music to these accounts...Throughout the programme, the... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2021, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Early Music
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Throughout this album Cinquecento are at the top of their game. Stylistically speaking, I would suggest similarities with The Hilliard Ensemble. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Early Music
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2021, Musique Renaissance
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Skinner's scholarly expertise both strengthens and weakens his conducting. Cadences, modal shifts and points of imitation steer his reading. Especially when the English Cornett & Sackbutt Ensemble... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2015, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Gramophone Awards, 2015, Winner - Early Music
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Bestion’s singers are very flexible, and frequently superb...they are equal to Scelsi’s quartertones; and they can sing ‘straight’ when needed. These stylistic shifts are not jarring. —
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Presto Editor's Choice, January 2022
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Superbly recorded, it is a masterclass in outstanding breadth of interpretation, balance and total teamwork … the group’s ‘worker’s co-operative’ ethos continues to reap dividends with, on this... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Isaac: In the time of Lorenzo de’ Medici and Maximilan I
1450-1519
Hespèrion XXI & La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Jordi Savall
Savall meshes lie and work, scared and secular, in a richly imagined tapestry…Bells are sprinkled throughout the disc like gold leaf highlighting letters in a manuscript…In all, this is an... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2019, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Shortlisted - Early Music
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As the programme unfolds from deft basse danses to Marchetto Cara’s sprightly Tante volte si si si we hear an impressive and persuasive attempt to uncover Leonardo’s subliminal music. —
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Diapason d’Or, Summer Issue 2019
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Finalist - Early Music
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Francis Xavier - The Route of the Orient
RecommendedDriss El Maloumi & Lahoucine Baquir (oud & percussion) & Senhora del Mundo (voz, psalteri, sarod & tablas)
Hespèrion XXI & La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Jordi Savall
Highlights here include performances by El Maloumi (oud), Zuckermand (sarod) and Seki (shakuhachi), while the singing of Yokio Tanaka (accompanying himself on biwa), though not an easy taste... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 7th January 2008
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