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The line-up might play safe, but it’s all exquisitely done, collegiate smoothness and blend to the fore. And what blend! The harmonic voicing is immaculate yet always sensitive to the imperatives... —
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Hewitt has few equals in Messiaen. The very early Préludes (Messiaen was studying with Dukas when he wrote them) mightn't seem the ideal repertory in which to demonstrate this, but she plays... —
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The Hyperion Schubert Edition - Complete Songs Volume 22
An 1815 Schubertiad (II)
Lorna Anderson (soprano), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo soprano), Jamie Macdougall (tenor), Simon Keenlyside (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano), Patricia Rozario (soprano), Catherine Denley (alto), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Michael George (bass)
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Driver proves at once with the first Novellette that he is alive to the composer's robust, macho side and its inverse, those luminescent and melting atmospheres...This is, in short, engaging... —
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Sophistication and refinement inform every note of Iestyn Davies's recital...this recording proves that the age of monochrome Dowland is over. —
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Debussy Songs Volume 3
Jennifer France (soprano), Malcolm Martineau (piano), Jonathan McGovern (baritone)
France negotiates the upper-altitude territory both with accuracy and with sensitivity to the songs' moods, with smoothness of line matching her subtlety of vocal inflection...McGovern shows... —
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The Hyperion Schubert Edition - Complete Songs Volume 13
Lieder Sacred and Profane
Marie McLaughlin (soprano), Thomas Hampson (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)
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Handel: The Occasional Oratorio, HWV62
Susan Gritton (soprano), Lisa Milne (soprano), James Bowman (countertenor), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Michael George (bass)
The King's Consort, Choir of The King's Consort, New College Choir, Oxford, Robert King
The occasion that called forth this work was the Jacobite rising of 1745 and its impending defeat. The Duke of Cumberland's victory at Culloden was yet to come. Handel, anticipating it, hit... —
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Simpson: Symphony No. 11 & Variations on a theme by Carl Nielsen
City of London Sinfonia, Matthew Taylor
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showcases some wonderful polyphony, full of vim and contrapuntal delight. Lovely moments and elegant phrasing… —
