Hi Res Download, Gesualdo (composer)
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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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The exotic harmonies in both expose the family resemblance between the styles of the two composers (though Gesualdo is even more experimental in his secular music) and the Monteverdi Choir is... — More…
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Park’s direction of the music is sensitive and alert variegated...Words and polyphonic strands are lucid, and while The Gesualdo Six can build up intense and resonant climaxes, their voices... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2022, Choral & Song Choice
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Here, the singers zone in on Gesualdo’s final two anthologies (perhaps the rawest of all) with their usual crystalline clarity. — More…
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Gramophone Awards, Finalist - Early Music
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2023, Recording of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Early Music
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Schubert: Death and the Maiden
RecommendedPatricia Kopatchinskaja (violin)
The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
This must have been an enthralling concert. It’s almost impossible to imagine Schubert’s Death and the Maiden in a string orchestral arrangement better played, with Kopatchinskaja a dynamic... — More…
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Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance
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the choir makes a careful distinction between those pieces that depict events, and those that meditate upon them...Herreweghe also coaxes some very expressive moments from the choir (the dark... — More…
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Many vocal skills we now admire in opera were born in the early 17th century. These performances centre upon the techniques of the early solo singer-composers, wonderfully resurrected here by... — More…
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2021
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2021, Baroque vocal
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Sunday Times, 10 Best Classical Albums of 2021
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The singers pay studious attention to the poetry and its nuances, painting the words with a rich palette and contrasting light and shade to reflect Gesualdo’s chiaroscuro...Harmonia Mundi’s... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2021, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Early Music
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The sheer inquisitive delight that these singers bring to Gesualdo’s extraordinary world indicates a very exciting series ahead. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Winner - Early Music
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These extremely accomplished singers makes sense of these notoriously wayward and enigmatic works… they are able to capture the kaleidoscopic thoughts of the poetry, producing clarity of utterance... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 4th March 2013
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2013, Winner - Musique ancienne
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