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Taverner: Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas & other choral works
Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Stephen Darlington (director)
Stephen Darlington gives majestic shape to this monumental work, effectively drawing out the imperturbable tread of the 'Gloria tibi Trinitas' cantus firmus. The choir produces a sound of blistering... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2007, Editor's Choice
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The best performance here is an extraordinary rendition of the First Violin Sonata. Transferred to the cello's upper strings, and played with limpid elegance, its musing character is given an... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2014, Editor's Choice
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Christmas Vespers: Music Of Michael Praetorius
Apollo’s Fire, Apollo's Singers, Apollo's Musettes, The Oberlin Choristers, The Children's Choirs of St Paul's Church, Jeannette Sorrell
[Praetorius is] a composer virtually made to herald the joy of the Christmas season. The two sets of his music here...make no attempt to reconstruct actual services. Rather, Jeannette Sorrell... —
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Jon Lord - To Notice Such Things
Jon Lord (piano) & Cormac Henry (flute)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Clark Rundell
Lord's writing is consistently warm and melodically strong, and while the music is more loosely impressionistic and illustrative than symphonic in structure, it easily and touchingly sustains... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2010, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Margaret Bonds: The Ballad Of The Brown King & Selected Songs
Laquita Mitchell (soprano), Lucia Bradford (mezzo-soprano), Noah Stewart (tenor), Malcolm J. Merriweather (baritone/conductor), Ashley Jackson (harp)
The Dessoff Choirs & Orchestra
Although it dates from 1954, this is the piece’s premiere recording. It is a very good one…The choral contributions draw palpably on the style of spirituals, without seeming derivative, and... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2019
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Strauss: Sinfonia Domestica
RecommendedJonathan Small (oboe), Nicholas Cox (clarinet), Alan Pendlebury (bassoon)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz
Sheer heaven...remarkable performance —
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Building a Library, October 2014, First Choice
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Haefliger likes to organise his recordings as integrated recitals, rather than as a contribution to a complete cyce of Beethoven Sonatas, or something of the kind...He combines a strenuously... —
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Building a Library, May 2016, Also Recommended
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Karpman: Ask Your Mama
RecommendedJanai Brugger (soprano), Nnenna Freelon (vocals), Angela Brown (soprano)
San Francisco Ballet Orchestra, Medusa, The Roots, George Manahan
The cycle features a multitude of voices, including luminous soprano Janai Brugger…jazz vocalist Nnenna Freelon and the powerfully invisive Monét Owens, accompanied by the San Francisco Ballet... —
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Grammy Awards, 58th Awards (2015), Best Engineered Album, Classical
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Illuminations
Nicholas Phan (tenor), Myra Huang (piano)
Telegraph Quartet, The Knights Chamber Orchestra
Phan is brilliantly supported by the instrumentalists’ technicolour playing [in Les Illuminations]. Much of Phan’s soft singing is tenderly handled, and the moments where he slips into a transparent... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2018
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Colin Jacobsen’s orchestration of Beethoven’s ‘Kreutzer’ Sonata is mostly convincing...had you never heard the original, you might accept this as a viable slice of Beethoven...Shorthand is an... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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