Choral, Févin (composer)
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From the outset, performing with one voice to a part, the malevoice ensemble The Gesualdo Six brings the intimacy and detail of consort music to these accounts...Throughout the programme, the... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2021, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Early Music
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Throughout, The Gesualdo Six offer up introspective and expressive readings...There is, inevitably, a similarity of mood to these melancholy works and the cumulative effect is somewhat overwhelming,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2024, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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Sunday Times, 20 Best Classical Albums of 2024
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An important contribution to our understanding of the ‘gentle master musician’…Stephen Rice brings perceptive musical insights to these accounts, and also sheds light on Févin’s idiom in the... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2018, Choral & Song Choice
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Skinner's scholarly expertise both strengthens and weakens his conducting. Cadences, modal shifts and points of imitation steer his reading. Especially when the English Cornett & Sackbutt Ensemble... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2015, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Gramophone Awards, 2015, Winner - Early Music
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Bestion’s singers are very flexible, and frequently superb...they are equal to Scelsi’s quartertones; and they can sing ‘straight’ when needed. These stylistic shifts are not jarring. —
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Presto Editor's Choice, January 2022
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The landscape angle is slightly odd…Luckily some real landscaping can be heard in Hesdin’s motet ‘Parasti’ where the performers shape the form and contour the dynamics splendidly. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Early Music
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Anne Boleyn’s Songbook
Music and Passions of a Tudor Queen
Clare Wilkinson (voice), Jacob Heringman (lute) & Kirsty Whatley (harp)
Alamire, David Skinner
Alamire's sound is robust and muscular, full-bodied rather than pristine. Mezzo-soprano Clare Wilkinson sings the solo songs with ingenuous simplicity, subtly inflecting the words with period... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2016, Choral Finalist
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What makes the disc really special are the interpolated solo numbers by the present-day Breton chansonnier Yann-Fañch Kemener, singing gwerzioù (epic laments) that movingly evoke a continuity... —
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Sacred Songs of France, Volume. I: 1198-1609
Gloriae Dei Cantores and Elizabeth C. Patterson, SharonRose Pfeiffer and Elizabeth C. Patterson
