Obsidian Records
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Everywhere [Skinner] negotiates an ear-opening path through the changing shapes and densities of Tallis’s ever-fluid formulations; the polyphony is delineated with laser-sharp precision, and... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2017
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2018, Concerto Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2018, Recording of the Month
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2018, Nominated - Vocal/Choral
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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... — More…
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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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Antoine Brumel: From Darkness Into Light The complete Lamentations of Jeremiah for Good Friday
Musica Secreta
This performance imagines them being sung in a 16th-century nunnery, so Brumel’s original low-voice scoring is transposed for female singers, with an organ and a viol providing lower parts.... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Shortlisted - Early Music
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Homophonic passages impress with their splendour, enriched here by the chestnut hues of basses William Gaunt and Robert Macdonald. The clarity of line lays bare the ingenuity of counterpoint,... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2011, Editor's Choice
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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... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2016, Choral Finalist
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Tomkins - These Distracted Times
Jamal Sutton (organ)
Choir of Sidney Sussex College Cambridge, Fretwork & Alamire, David Skinner
The career of Thomas Tomkins straddled several reigns as well as the Cromwell era and this had an impact on his music, which otherwise reflects the influence of his mentor, William Byrd. Vocal... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2008, Disc of the Month
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Henry’s Music: Motets from a Royal Choir Book
Songs by Henry VIII
Alamire & QuintEssential, Andrew Lawrence-King
The freshness and sensitivity of Alamire distinguishes it from rival ensembles. David Skinner channels the singers' skill to create a stunning architecture out of complex and sometimes ungrateful... — More…
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Josquin Desprez - Missa D'ung aultre amer
Clare Wilkinson & Andrew Lawrence-King
Alamire, David Skinner
Alamire's singing is glorious. Confident, precise and with an almost urgent concision which suits the compactness of the Gloria and Credo. — More…
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Verdelot - Madrigals for a Tudor King
Clare Wilkinson, Robert MacDonald & Lynda Sayce
Alamire, David Skinner
Alamire are on fine form here, alternating several performance possibilities, as on their recent recording of Josquin for this label: solo lute, lute and voice, lute and vocal consort, or consort... — More…
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Grant The King A Long Life: English Anthems & Instrumental Music
The Choir of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge & Fretwork, David Skinner
There's both freshness and fire in these accounts, Skinner underscoring the music's dramatic and madrigalian qualities, and enhancing dynamic and textural contrasts to elating effect. — More…
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