Hi Res Download, Jenkins, J (composer)
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The ensemble is a coterie of some of the finest early musicians on the scene today – friends who evidently relish the art of musical conversation, the guiding ethos of the English consort tradition. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2024, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 24th May 2024
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2024, Chamber Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
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Perpetual Night
17th Century Ayres and Songs
Lucile Richardot (contralto)
Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé
The title may be ‘Perpetual Night’ but there’s absolutely nothing gloomy or unremitting about this delicious disc and its chiaroscuro play of shading and texture…Lawes and Locke may never quite... — More…
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Schallplattenkritik Awards, 2018, Winner - Jahrespreis
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2018, Winner - Musique baroque vocale
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Diapason d’Or, June 2018, Nouveauté
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Gramophone Awards, 2019, Finalist - Solo Vocal
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Phantasm brings its distinctively light, luminous and spectral sound to these busy tapestries, and the consort’s translucent textures are enriched in sundry pieces by the velvet warmth of a... — More…
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Pavans and Fantasies from the Age of Dowland
RecommendedJohn Holloway (violin, viola), Monika Baer (violin, Renate Steinmann (violin), Susanna Hefti (viola), Martin Zeller (bass violin)
Dowland himself was prepared to countenance performances with violin consort. This is the less familiar route Holloway and his colleagues have chosen, deploying four violas atop a bass violin...The... — More…
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Building a Library, October 2017, Also Recommended
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International Classical Music Awards, 2015, Winner - Baroque Instrumental
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There’s no doubting the technical prowess of these two crack performers, and it’s hard not to share their guilty delight in this stolen booty: intonation and ensemble are spot-on, rhythms pulse,... — More…
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Division-musick
The Art of Diminution in England in the 17th century
Musicke & mirth: Jane Achtman & Irene Klein (viola da gamba and lyra viol), Amandine Beyer (violin) & Johannes Strobl (virginal and organ)
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The players envelop you in a sound here silky, there velvety. Fluid tempos highlight that lyrical ‘flowing vein’ that Jenkins’s contemporaries so admired, and the balance slightly favours the... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2018, Chamber Choice
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Diapason d’Or, November 2019, Nouveauté
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The Excellency of Hand
English Viola da Gamba Duos
Robert Smith (viola da gamba) & Paolo Pandolfo (viola da gamba)
Smith and Pandolfo enjoy a terrific rapport, sharing an acute sensitivity to balance, ensemble, phrasing and nuance. Hearing them is like listening to an exquisitely choreographed pas de deux,... — More…
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New. Baker Street
Michael Oman (soloist, recorder), Thomas Boysen (soloist, theorbo, lute), Christoph Urbanetz (soloist, viol), Johannes Hämmerle (soloist, harpsichord)
Austrian Baroque Company
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