Download, Hildegard (composer)
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Abbess Hildegard of Bingen - A feather on the breath of God
RecommendedEmma Kirkby (soprano)
Gothic Voices, Christopher Page
Gothic Voices chose to perform the hymns and sequences with great simplicity, alternating a single voice with unison voices over drones. Bingen's spellbinding melodies are clear and meditative,... — More…
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Building a Library, April 2016, Also Recommended
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Gramophone Awards, 1982/3, Winner - Early Music (Medieval and Renaissance)
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1980s
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The album brings together ten, seemingly disparate composers between whom Shibe traces a journey that’s as unsettling as it is exquisite and profoundly searching, steeped in a kind of weightless... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2022
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Winner - Solo Instrumental
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Finalists, Shortlisted - Instrumental
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New. Esther Abrami: Women
Esther Abrami (violin), Kim Barbier (piano), Lavinia Meijer (harp), Esther Abrami Quintet, Vienne Radio Symphony Orchestra, Irene Delgado-Jiménez
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Combining Tallis and Gesualdo with modern/contemporary composers such as Sarah Rimkus, Gerda Blok-Wilson and the late Veljo Tormis can be tricky for an ensemble, but the Gesualdo Six and Owain... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2020, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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New. 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... — More…
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Dance For Two
Dorothee Oberlinger (recorder), Nils Mönkemeyer (viola), Dorothee Oberlinger & Nils Mönkemeyer
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Chamber Music
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Here is a deeply satisfying, centuries-spanning, thought-provoking debut album by the fine choral ensemble Echo...The highlight of the album is Howard Skempton’s luminous Yeats setting ‘He wishes... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2024, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2024
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2025, Shortlisted - Premiere
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This beautifully engineered disc concludes a four-album trans-millennial tale that helped define meaningful music. — More…
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Jazzwise, Editor's Choice, December 2019
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Presto Recording of the Week, 18th October 2019
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L’Aurore is far greater than the sum of its parts...The album takes its name from the first movement of Ysaÿe’s fifth solo sonata, a work dedicated to his friend and former pupil Mathieu Crickboom.... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2022, Instrumental Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Solo Instrument
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