Delphian
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The mixture of music from five centuries is successful… each work is pervaded with a controlled yet sensuous pleasure in texture and melody, and it's pleasing to hear some lesser-known composers…... —
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The Three Kings
Music for Christmas from Tewkesbury Abbey
Carleton Etherington (organ)
Tewkesbury Abbey Schola Cantorum, Benjamin Nicholas
…the boys sing with sonorous and rounded tone. Rarely can the choir have sounded on better form than they do here —
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Die Vögel unter dem Himmel
Heinrich Schütz - Sacred Choral Music
John Kitchen (solo organ), Edward Batting (organ)
The National Youth Choir of Great Britain, Mike Brewer
On the whole the choral singing is admirably disciplined and contoured. The most impressive passages tend to be the fullest homophonic sections which close pieces; but "So fahr ich hin zu Jesu... —
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The lively mind evidenced in Lucy Carolan’s excellent booklet note is mirrored in these performances, which abound in vigour. —
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Baltic repertoire is hot in choral circles at present, so this CD will find a ready specialist audience...Gabriel Jackson's Cantus Maris Baltici celebrates the sea in swirlingly ebullient writing... —
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Wilde’s music exudes technical assurance, craftsmanship and an in-depth understanding of instruments gained through his own experiences as a performer. The results are truly memorable…a musical... —
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The Edge of Time
Palaeolithic Bone Flutes From France & Germany
Anna Friederike Potengowski (bone flutes) & Georg Wieland Wagner (percussion)
treated with real imagination...The bending pitches and haunting, wavering timbres are used in original fantasies by Anna Friederike Potengowski and Georg Wieland Wagner, and even extend to... —
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This outstanding album brims with atmosphere and imagination…While Osborne’s modernist scores are uncompromising in their technical rigour, his music is nonetheless intensely human, radiating... —
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Highly-charged dissonances, strange harmonic progressions paint words that implore and plead and cry out for mercy. Though they are as dramatic as Gesualdo’s madrigals, these sacred works inhabit... —
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Kitchen despatches each and all with performances that blend aesthetic nuance with bravura showmanship…Delphian’s vivid record sound adds to the considerable pleasure. —
