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Visions Illuminées
RecommendedMary Bevan (soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
12 Ensemble, Ruisi Quartet
The heart of the recital is a radiantly searching performance of Britten’s Les illuminations...Bevan’s ability to combine warmth with refreshing vigour is to the fore in Chausson’s Chanson perpétuelle... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, February 2023
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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Waley-Cohen brings magnetic performances and an enthusiast’s passion to this splendid disc…his Violin Concerto duly bubbles with folk melodies, modal harmonies and open-hearted expression, and... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2016, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Shortlisted - Concerto
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Throughout the disc, La Serenissima’s performances are characterised by liquid melodies and supple embellishments, lithe rhythms and eloquent phrasing. — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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[Tenebrae's] account of Parry's Songs of Farewell abounds in subtleties of phrasing and telling distinctions of dynamic, yet flows beautifully, the textual narrative unfolding with a rare continuity... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2012, Choral Finalist
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Barley’s playing [of The Protecting Veil] at first feels a touch too restrained, but as the piece progresses [his] restraint proves perfectly judged and a performance of great tenderness and... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2019, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Critics' Choice
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The Godfather RecommendedMasters of the German & Italian Baroque
La Serenissima, Adrian Chandler
If Chandler’s programming of oddities and fragments sometimes looks like a musicological download, the sound his orchestra makes soon makes you forget that. Bright, clear, open and gloriously... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 15th November 2019
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Birtwistle: The Moth Requiem
RecommendedRoderick Williams (baritone)
BBC Singers & Nash Ensemble, Nicholas Kok
This is a wonderful and important release of his powerful and often delicate works. Best, perhaps, to begin with On the Sheer Threshold of the Night, which is a kind of spin-off from The Mask... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2014, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Finalist - Contemporary
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Handel: L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato RecommendedGillian Webster (soprano), Laurence Kilsby (treble), Jeremy Ovenden (tenor), Peter Harvey (baritone), Ashley Riches (bass), William Whitehead (organ)
Gabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh
The choral elements are scrupulously handled by the Gabrieli Consort, and the soloists are choice. Gillian Webster is the light, bright soprano, Laurence Kilsby the delightful treble tenor Jeremy... — More…
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Sunday Times, 2015, Albums of the Year
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2015, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Bliss sounds well to the fore in the Weber…Riding the Carducci Quartet’s neatly articulated or sensitively sustained accompaniments, Bliss tackles the score with a piercingly pure, vibrato-less... — More…
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Record Review, 3rd November 2018, Disc of the Week
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Building a Library, March 2019, Also Recommended
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The authentic voice of Russian liturgical music is a challenge for Brits to emulate; there’s the unique timbre Church Slavonic an indefinable quality of melancholy and a visceral richness which... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 13th January 2014
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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