Hyperion
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Shaham and Erez deliver outstandingly committed performances, revelling in the music's virtuosity, fantasy and heightened intensity of expression. —
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Conductus, Vol. 1
Music & poetry from thirteenth-century France
John Potter (tenor), Christopher O'Gorman (tenor) & Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor)
Conductus proves that ascetic simplicity can be as deeply moving and aesthetically breath-taking as the mst complex, heart-on-sleeve music...It's hardly necessary to mention they are superb,... —
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These performances by Arcangelo of the Litanies and Magnificat are unfailingly expert, with ornamentation gracefully integrated. The performances of the Leçons have a greater focus and intensity... —
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Brahms: The Complete Songs Volume 5 (Christopher Maltman)
Christopher Maltman (baritone) & Graham Johnson (piano)
Maltman and the ever-sensitive Johnson...make a compelling, illuminating partnership. Maltman's mellow baritone,with its distinctively plangent, tenorish upper register, is always easy on the... —
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His powerful technique motors through Prokofiev’s four miniatures with tremendous confidence, relishing their naughty-boy dissonances, and he treats the Lisztian flourishes that occasionally... —
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Buxtehude - Complete Organ Works Volume 4
Christopher Herrick (organ of Trinity College Chapel, Cambridge)
An unforced manner is essential for this oqpaue and, at times, fragile music...Registrations are beautifully balanced throughout, and the pleno, while thrilling, isn't overbearing...There is... —
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Auser Musici play quick music with brio, slower movements have a graceful lyrical sweep and Ipata's flute-playing is always shapely; there's no disputing the easy charm of these skilfully crafted... —
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MacMillan: Choral Music
William de Chazal (treble) & Jonathan Vaughn (organ), Simon Clulow (countertenor), Mark Hounsell (tenor), Dominic Bland (tenor) & Christopher Sheldrake (bass), Jonathan Vaughn (organ)
Wells Cathedral Choir, Matthew Owens
MacMillan's vocal writing can be dazzlingly virtuosic...Yet his shorter, simpler pieces are equally engaged with spirituality. The Wells singing is of a consistently high standard (MacMillan's... —
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Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem
chamber ensemble orchestration by Iain Farrington
Yale Schola Cantorum, David Hill
Farrington’s reduction…certainly emphasises the sense of intimate consolation…The choral singing itself is excellent. The 32-member Yale Schola Cantorum is full of young vibrant voices, and... —
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