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English Royal Funeral Music
RecommendedLes Trompettes des Plaisirs, Lingua Franca & Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier
one might call it a classically 'English' choral sound - but any suspicions of coolness are easily dispelled by the commitment shown to the meaning of both music and text...Once again, Vox Luminis... — More…
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Building a Library, April 2015, First Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2013, Editor's Choice
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Spem is literally a surround-sound piece, so this recording, the first to use the latest technology in new audio formats, gets closer than most. The Sixteen (enlarged to the requisite 40) have... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Collection Recommendation
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2003, Editor's Choice
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Building a Library, October 2016, Recommended Version in English
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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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Poetry in Music
Ruth Provost, Kirsty Hopkins, David Clegg, Jeremy Budd, Ben Davies, Julie Cooper, Edward McMullan, Mark Dobell
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers
It is clear that this is something really special. That specialness comes not just from the fact that The Sixteen elevate everything they perform through their opulent musicality and supreme... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2015, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Shortlisted - Choral
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In Chains of Gold: The English Pre-Restoration Verse Anthem, Volume 3
‘Ah, His Glory!’: Anthems of Praise, Prayer and Remembrance
Magdalena Consort, Fretwork, His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts, Silas Wollston (organ)
In a nutshell, the transformed vocality, scale and rhetoric of the music-making is far closer to Italianate madrigals than ethereal choral balm. — More…
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Organs of Edinburgh
Usher Hall – John Kitchen, St Cuthbert’s Parish Church – Thomas Laing-Reilly, Palmerston Place Church – Andrew Caskie, St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral- Duncan Ferguson, Freemasons’ Hall – Timothy Byram-Wigfield, St Andrew’s & St George’s West Parish Church – Michael Harris, Broughton St Mary’s...
This is a magnificent package, fully befitting its subject...The entire collection is a veritable treasure-trove, a feast for lovers of organ music...Just 2,000 copies of this will ever be published... — More…
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Special offer. Tomkins: Music for viols, organ, harpsichord
RecommendedRose Consort of Viols, Red Byrd, Thos Roberts, J Bryan
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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These works have sometimes been handled as trifles or decorative miniatures, but Iranian-American harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani treats them as profoundly expressive and introspective works.... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2018, Instrumental Choice
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2019, Nominated - Instrumental
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The line-up might play safe, but it’s all exquisitely done, collegiate smoothness and blend to the fore. And what blend! The harmonic voicing is immaculate yet always sensitive to the imperatives... — More…
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The singers make a beautifully balanced sound with impressive fluency across each style...there is a pleasing tension between a consort blend and the vital quirkiness of individual voices...Jourdain’s... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2018, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2019, Finalist - Early Music
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