Hi Res Download, Quilter (composer)
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This most welcome second volume of British overtures serves to accentuate the sheer diversity of works this country produced in the genre between the 1890s and the 1940s and, moreover, where... —
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Shakespeare Songs
RecommendedIan Bostridge (tenor), Antonio Pappano (piano), Elizabeth Kenny (lute), Adam Walker (flute), Lawrence Power (viola), Michael Collins (clarinet)
Five songs from Finzi’s incomparable Let us Garlands Bring see the tenor’s head voice floating sympathetically through the melismatic vowels and ever-shifting metres of Finzi’s most sensitive... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2016, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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ECHO Klassik Awards, 2017, Winner
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Grammy Awards, 59th Awards (2016), Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Devos’s genuine affection for this repertoire shines through…With Britten’s cycle On this Island, Devos’s sheer accuracy and panache outshines many sopranos on record. —
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2021, Editor's Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, February 2021
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Song
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Gilchrist’s vibrato can be over-generously deployed, and a few moments sound a touch effortful; but, trusting wholeheartedly in Quilter’s creative instincts, he never over-interprets. It’s an... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 21st June 2024
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Much of it is beautifully done. Charvet has a warm, appealing mezzo, with a tangy lower register and fine dynamic control at the top. She’s at her best in jazz-inflected or declamatory numbers...Manoff,... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2019
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Forbidden, yet seldom forbidding, Appl’s exquisitely cultivated fruits are ripe for plucking, and deserve to be consumed with unalloyed relish! —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2015, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2023
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Special offer. A Tale Of Two Cellos
Arrangements by Julian Lloyd Webber
Julian and Jiaxin Lloyd Webber (cellos), John Lenehan (piano), Catrin Finch (harp), Guy Johnston (cello) & Laura van der Heijden (cello)
The most worthwhile tracks surround the cellists' effusions with space, air and Catrin Finch's harp...Throughout, John Lenehan's piano gives helpful support. —
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Musick To Heare
Olivia Hunt (soprano), John Hosking (harpsichord, organ & piano), Mark Hartt-Palmer (violin)
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For all Adrian Bradbury’s richly seductive tone, stylistic sensitivity and evident affection for the music (not to mention pianist Andrew West ’s illuminating rapport), it’s with the Cyril Scott... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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A Lad's Love
RecommendedBrian Giebler (tenor), Steven McGhee, Katie Hyun, Ben Russell, Jessica Meyer, Michael Katz, Reginald Mobley
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Grammy Awards, 63rd Awards (2021), Nominee - Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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