Hyperion
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How do you make a worthwhile contribution to the enormous range of performances without sounding willful or perverse? Kolesnikov opts for a middle way, rather like Wilhelm Kempff two generations... —
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The Times Records of the Year, 2020
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Charpentier - Mass for Four Choirs & other works
RecommendedEx Cathedra choir and orchestra, Jeffrey Skidmore
The blend of the vocal lines is superb and the handling of ornament little short of breathtaking. —
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Building a Library, May 2004, Highly Recommended
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Her ornamentation is both crisply decorative and flexible and always inherent in the music's forward flow. —
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All the music on these two well-filled discs is recorded here for the first time. Absorbing for the scholar specialist —
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The Songs of Robert Schumann - Volume 9
Felicity Lott (soprano), Ann Murray (soprano), Graham Johson (piano)
In the piano pieces and songs alike, Johnson plays with luminous tone and a natural feeling for Schumannesque rubato. And as ever, his sleeve notes alone are worth the price of the disc —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2005, Editor's Choice
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Maxwell Davies - Sacred choral music
Robert Quinney (organ)
Choir of Westminster Cathedral, Martin Baker
Under David Hill and subsequently James O'Donnell the choir of Westminster Cathedral established a tradition of excellent recordings for Hyperion. That tradition is as strong as ever under Martin... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2004, Editor's Choice
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MacMillan: Mass and other sacred music
Andrew Reid (organ)
Westminster Cathedral Choir, Martin Baker (Master of Music)
Martin Baker, in his CD debut as master of music, strikes sparks from the Westminster choir in a set of gripping performances which still sound freshly minted. —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2001, Editor's Choice
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