Vocal, Songs, Britten (composer)
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Britten: Songs & Proverbs of William Blake
Recommendedand other songs
Gerald Finley (baritone) & Julius Drake (piano)
[Finley] just seems to be singing naturally, but at the same time he colors and inflects with astonishing specificity. He manages to vary the repeats in those folk-song settings where verses... —
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Sunday Times, 2010, Albums of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Winner - Solo Vocal
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Shibe brings a lively charisma and a vibrant array of musical colour to the album, conjuring everything from 17th-century lute to Arabic oud across this wide-reaching programme. Sulayman’s performance... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th May 2023
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Grammy Awards, 66th Awards (2024), Nominee - Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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This debut solo album brilliantly played by the rising young organist Anna Lapwood should certainly engage organ aficionados, especially fans of the grand Harrison & Harrison instrument in Ely... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Finalist - Spatial Audio
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For Dieter: Hommage à Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
RecommendedBenjamin Appl (baritone), James Baillieu (piano)
Benjamin Appl’s singing is thoughtful and enjoyable.The voice sometimes uncannily recalls that of his guru...Appl and his artistic partners deserve huge credit for making this imaginative, moving... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd May 2025
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2025, Vocal Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2025, Special Project
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Songs For Peter Pears
RecommendedRobin Tritschler (tenor), Philip Higham (cello), Malcolm Martineau (piano), Sean Shibe (guitar)
Tritschler has none of Pears’s uptight characteristics and never sounds like a parody...Pears may be the inspiration for these songs, but with this collection Tritschler and his three superb... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 21st June 2024
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2024, Choral & Song Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Winners, Song
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2005, Editor's Choice
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the result is coherently put together, with Hughes's resourceful vocal imagination and use of tone, plus the subtlety and careful placement of her decorations, drawing the ear again and again. —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2026, Editor's Choice
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Come to Me in My Dreams
120 years of songs from the RCM
Sarah Connolly (mezzo), Joseph Middleton (piano)
A varied collection that offers more than just vocal bonbons…Connolly and Middleton execute the complex phrasing [of A Charm of Lullabies] with a sense of ensemble for which they are revered. —
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Presto Editor's Choice, July 2018
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2018, Editor's Choice
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The Bamberg musicians are too interested in the sheer, the precise and the subtle [in the Ravel] to stumble into cheap exoticism. The colours are sharp in Britten’s Quatre chansons françaises,... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Record Review, 3rd June 2017, Recording of the Week
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Britten & Dowland - Lute Songs
RecommendedMark Padmore (tenor) & Elizabeth Kenny (lute), guitar solo by Craig Ogden
Padmore provides context by singing Dowland's original song before Craig Ogden steals in, alert to the Nocturnal's every nuance, and with a palette of colours both caressing and disquieting.... —
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Building a Library, January 2013, Top recommendation - Dowland Songs
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