Hyperion
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Marc-André Hamelin’s technical mastery is legendary … a remarkable disc and certainly not to be missed —
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This disc is studded with pleasures, even (especially in the Petrarch sonnets) with flashes of ecstasy. Fine sound too —
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The performance is so good, conveying a genuine contemplative intimacy —
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William Lloyd Webber: Piano music, chamber music & songs
John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Ian Brown (piano)
The Nash Ensemble
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Stanford's Songs of the Sea have kept the British baritone afloat for the best part of a century.
Drake's hammock and the barnacles of The Old Superb used to be familiar in parlours and drawing-... — -
Gabrieli, G: The 16 Canzonas and Sonatas from Sacrae Symphoniae, 1597
His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts, Timothy Roberts ('moderator')
Giovanni Gabrieli is arguably the earliest composer to write a significant body of instrumental music to a formula which can be said to be truly idiomatic and timelessly palatable. The Sacraesymphoniae... —
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Robert Simpson: Complete Choral and Organ Music
Ian Quinn (organ of Westminster Cathedral)
Corydon Simgers, Corydon Brass Ensemble
Simpson would never have claimed that choral music was his métier. Yet for lovers of his music there's something especially revealing about the two pieces recorded here. In Media morte in vitasumus... —
