Hyperion
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Gramophone Awards, 2006, Winner - Early Music
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These singers are always nicely in tune and effectively blended, especially in the slower movements of the Mass where they strongly project the chordal colouring in the ‘Qui tollis’ and perfectly... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2020, Editor's Choice
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Bostridge is in the royal line of Britten's tenor interpreters. Indeed his imaginative response to words and music may come closer than any to Pears himself. He's heard here in a veritable cornucopia... —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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The Romantic Piano Concerto 76 - Rheinberger & Scholz
Simon Callaghan (piano)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Ben Gernon
The only piano concerto by Josef Rheinberger dates from 1877 and is a vast, rich work, owing as much to Brahms as to Schumann. And if Bernhard Scholz’s concerto (1883) is somewhat looser in... —
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Morales: Missa Mille regretz & Missa Desilde al cavallero
Martha McLorinan (alto), Lynda Sayce (lute, vihuela), Graham Kirk (baritone), Sam Barrett (baritone), De Profundis, Robert Hollingworth, Eamonn Dougan
The large male vocal ensemble produces a rich, well-blended tone. The ensemble is easily their equal, and Hyperion is giving us a valuable series of recordings. Go for this one, and you will... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Early Music
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JS Bach, Handel & Scarlatti: Gamba Sonatas
Steven Isserlis (cello), Richard Egarr (harpsichord), with Robin Michael (cello)
This isn’t one for the dyed-in-the-wool authenticist…fortunately, dessicated 'authenticity' has been supplanted by imaginatively experimenting performers supported by scholarly evidence…in the... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2015, Editor's Choice
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This is likely to become one of your most cherished discs. It's notable for its spacious depth of sound, volatile unpredictability of interpretation, and above all the soaring sostenuto of the... —
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Gramophone Awards, 1985, Winner - Early Music (Medieval and Renaissance)
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Building a Library, June 2016, Also Recommended
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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What immediately impresses about these performances by the Florestan Trio is the lightness and clarity of the playing, with Susan Tomes characteristically sparing in her use of pedal. …this... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2006, Editor's Choice
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This isn't music that yields its secrets easily. Despite pages pulsing with all Fauré's sustained radiance and energy, the abiding impression is of music of such profound introspection that... —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Gramophone Awards, 1995, Winner - Chamber
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Britten: A Ceremony of Carols
RecommendedJames O'Donnell (organ), Sioned Williams (harp)
Choir of Westminster Cathedral, David Hill
A Ceremony of Carols sets nine medieval and 16th-century poems between the 'Hodie' of the plainsong Vespers. The sole accompanying instrument is a harp, but given the right acoustic, sensitive... —
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Building a Library, December 2004, Also Recommended
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