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Special offer. Innocence: Echo Vocal Ensemble
Ben Munden (tenor), Anna Semple (contralto), Hilary Cronin (soprano), Margaret Lingas (soprano), Echo Vocal Ensemble, Sarah Latto
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... —
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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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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... —
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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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This beautifully engineered disc concludes a four-album trans-millennial tale that helped define meaningful music. —
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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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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... —
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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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Special offer. Hildegard von Bingen: Vox Cosmica
RecommendedArianna Savall (singer & harp)
Hirundo Maris
the performances are startlingly beautiful and free and the arrangements endlessly creative —
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Building a Library, April 2016, Also Recommended
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This is one of those rare programmes in which the whole is far greater than the sum of its parts. —
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Record Review, 4th February 2023, Record of the Week
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Enargeia
RecommendedGuðnadóttir - Bingen - Snider - Mazzoli
Emily D'Angelo (mezzo-soprano), Das Freie Orchester Berlin, Jarkko Riihimäki
D’Angelo is already well on the way to becoming the complete singer. Her mezzo voice has incredible range, depth and power at the lower end combined with crystalline clarity up top, with lovely... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th October 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Concept Album of the Year
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The exquisitely pure-toned performance α of Hildegard von Bingen's O viridissima, Virga at the outset makes clear that this will be a special recital...Christopher Lowrey elicits expressively... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Issue 2025, Christmas Choice
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This is an ingenious and moving collection of pieces framed as the interplay between light and dark, and moving across the spectrum of such experiences...The harmonic languages of these pieces... —
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2025, Choral Choice
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Filia Sion: Vox Clamantis & Jean-Eik Tulve
Vox Clamantis, Jaan-Eik Tulve (artistic director and conductor)
This is a captivating sequence of plainsong and early polyphony, justified by the common link of the Judaic notion of the Israelites as daughters of Zion. The Estonian vocal group Vox Clamantis,... —
