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Download, Chesnokov (composer)
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It’s the breadth – not just of repertoire but of sound, technique and approach – that makes it so arrestingly excellent… The musicianship here is dazzling, and nowhere more so than in Britten’s... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2020, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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The authentic voice of Russian liturgical music is a challenge for Brits to emulate; there’s the unique timbre Church Slavonic an indefinable quality of melancholy and a visceral richness which... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 13th January 2014
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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The Bells of Dawn
Russian Sacred and Folk Songs
Dmitri Hvorostovsky (baritone)
The Grand Choir ‘Masters of Choral Singing’, Lev Kontorovich
The singing here...is more sophisticated than you might expect to hear in your average Russian church on a Sunday morning but Hvorostovsky does not over-egg it. In the characteristically lush... —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2014, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2014, Editor's Choice
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Magnificat 3
George Herbert, Thomas Butler (bass-baritone), Joshua Davidson (soprano), Alastair Austin (countertenor), Angus Crichton-Stuart (soprano), Carlos Rodriguez Otero (tenor), Lucas Nair-Grepinet, Alexander Hopkins (bass-baritone), Choir of St John's College Cambridge, Andrew Nethsingha
It’s sad that Nethsingha’s departure means that the next volume will be the last. I can’t think of a greater or more apt epitaph to the music director’s time at St John’s. —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2023, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Finalists, Shortlisted - Choral
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Conspirare’s reading of these pieces is passionate without being perfumed. A lovely recording, in immaculate sound. —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2014, Editor's Choice
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Grammy Awards, 57th Awards (2014), Best Choral Performance
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Special offer. Chesnokov: Sacred Choral Music
St. John's Voices, Cambridge University Chamber Choir, Graham Walker
…This is first-rate music, still too little known to audiences outside of Russia. All of the shorter works here are gems, with O Tebe raduyetsia a particular standout. What a gorgeous piece... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2023, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Choral
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Special offer. More Honourable Than the Cherubim
Mikhail Davydov (bass-baritone), PaTRAM Institute Male Choir, Vladimir Gorbik
There’s no shortage of Orthodox choral discs, but here is one worth adding to anyone’s collection...Perhaps the choir’s USP is the number and quality of its bassi profundi (‘oktavists’). Those... —
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2021, Choral & Song Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Choral
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Hidden Music of the Russian Church
Sacred Chants after the Revolution 1917
Moscow Patriarch Choir of Christ the Saviour Cathedral, Ilya Tolkachev
This is an astounding recording, on account of both the repertoire selected and the quality of the singing…performances throughout are of the highest standard…this is a revelatory disc, by any... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2017, Editor's Choice
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It comprises 21 tenors, nine baritones, seven basses and five profundos, and is very much a tenor-dominated sound with little obvious resonance from the lowest voices. This gives it all a fervent... —
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Grammy Awards, 61st Awards (2019), Nominee - Choral Performance
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