Hyperion
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Reger: Choral Music
with Alice Gribbin (soprano) & Christopher Glynn (piano)
Consortium, Andrew-John Smith
The performances are fine indeed, but more than anything, it's the music itself that strikes you - it's both utterly unique and breathtakingly beautiful...Andrew-John Smith's group are perfectly... —
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Guyot emerges from this disc as a marvellously fluent composer, perhaps a touch unvaried in texture but always pleasing…the five adult men of Cinquecento – here joined by the countertenor David... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Shortlisted - Early Music
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Carwood draws earthy, visceral performances; the ensemble's virile sound and Parsons's sinewy polyphony are a far cry from what some critics describe as the 'whitewashed', English choral tradition.... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2011, Editor's Choice
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Hildegard of Bingen: A Feather On the Breath of God
Gothic Voices, Emma Kirkby (soprano), Christopher Page
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Vinyl Record
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Honegger - Une Cantate de Noël
RecommendedAlban Gerhardt (cello), James Rutherford (baritone)
BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales, Thierry Fischer
…an excellent introduction to a still underestimated composer. Thierry Fischer's vivid account of the Prélude, Fugue et Postlude makes one all the more astonished that this is the only recording... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th December 2008
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Osborne’s phrasing and pacing is pure and poetic, as well as raptly atmospheric in ‘The Snow is Dancing’ and it finishes with a deliciously louche cake-walk. —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2017, Editor's Choice
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Vinyl Record
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Most of these pieces are light, even frothy morceaux, and Plowright does not overstate the musical case for them beyond their obvious delights of refinement and dexterity. But he balances them... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2010, Editor's Choice
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The disc opens with a splendid Laetatus sum for six solo singers, choir and instruments. …the tenor in Salve, o Regina delivers some wonderfully impassioned decoration, and the sopranos in... —
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Tallis: Spem in Alium
and other choral works
Winchester Cathedral Choir, Winchester College Quiristers, Vocal Arts Chorus, David Hill
A characterful acoustic, a spatially defined sound recording and treble-singing of a fine standard combine in an impressive conclusion [to Spem in alium] —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Collection Recommendation
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