Hyperion
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Brahms: The Complete Songs Volume 1 (Angelika Kirchschlager)
Angelika Kirchschlager (mezzo-soprano) & Graham Johnson (piano)
Graham Johnson, once again, is both mastermind and pianist, and, as ever, his accompanying notes and essays are as witty and richly allusive as his playing...This recital is beautifully shaped. —
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Rossini - Soirées musicales
Miah Persson (soprano), Stella Doufexis (soprano), Bruce Ford (tenor) & Roger Vignoles (piano)
There isn't a low point on the entire disc. Roger Vignoles plays with all his characteristic intelligence and subtlety. Miah Persson is enchanting in the opening La Promessa...Bruce Ford is... —
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Panis angelicus
Favourite Motets from Westminster Cathedral
Westminster Cathedral Choir, Iain Simcock (organ)
James O'Donnell
A beautiful disc of sacred motets from one of this country’s finest choirs —
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they're all tales and Finley is a fine tale-teller. In Loewe, he sounds as though he's singing just for you, the listener, so rapt and intense is his communication. Drake is a fine accomplice,... —
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The English Hymn - 5
Lead, kindly Light - Hymns of Faith and Assurance
Wells Cathedral Choir, Rubert Gough (organ), Malcolm Archer
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Bairstow - Choral Music
Paul Provost (organ) & Roderick Williams (baritone)
The Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge & Britten Sinfonia, David Hill (Director of Music)
…Bairstow could hardly have finer advocates than David Hill's St John's Choir, beautiful in tone and balance… admirably clear in enunciation, well supported by rhythmic organ playing, and outstandingly... —
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The Feast of St Edward, King and Confessor, at Westminster Abbey
Robert Quinney (organ)
The Choir of Westminster Abbey, James O’Donnell
An admirably varied programme, with excellent Hyperion recording. —
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Brahms: The Complete Songs Volume 7 (Benjamin Appl)
Benjamin Appl (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)
Johnson is alive to every juicy nuance of the richly detailed accompaniments. And although I was occasionally distracted by Appl’s closed vowels, which sometimes robbed the poetry of its immediacy,... —
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The Finn Jaakko Mäntyjärvi’s choral palette ranges from ethereal to hardhitting, deliciously eerie to radiantly joyful. It is all immaculately and excitingly presented here. —
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The centrepiece of this disc is Le lay de confort, a setting of the longest, a setting of the longest of the poetic forms available to Machaut…The Orlandos show remarkable staying power here,... —
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