Hyperion
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The Hyperion Schubert Edition - Complete Songs Volume 31
Christine Brewer (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)
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Liszt Complete Music for Solo Piano 17: Liszt at the Opera 2
Leslie Howard (piano) & Geoffrey Parsons (piano)
There are riches galore here … Howard, as with every volume so far, brings to the recording studio the excitement of a live performance while never neglecting or unduly emphasising the poetry... —
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Shelley's third volume (of six projected) makes abundantly clear that Clementi at best was an outstanding composer. He tempers the virtuoso finger-dexterity of the 'mechanicus' with sensitive... —
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...the technical challenges are met with ease, as in the gear-change from duple to triple time at 'Qui ex Patre', and the 'jubilant' aspects of this celebratory work are enhanced by the high... —
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Record Review, December 2010, Critics' Disc of the Year
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Central to this valuable anthology of Mathias's church music is the tautly concentrated Missa brevis of 1973. It’s the outer movements that are most impressive, the Kyrie drawn tensely together... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2009, Editor's Choice
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Amorosi pensieri
Songs for the Habsburg Court by Philippe de Monte, Jean Guyot, Jacobus Vaet & Jacob Regnart
Cinquecento
The immaculately written motet-like textures of Sortez Regretz bring out the best in the singers who give us clean textures and superb tuning...They give a beautiful performance of the little... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2014, Editor's Choice
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This whirlwind tour takes in some of the world’s most spectacular organs, from the town halls of Melbourne and Wellington to the Royal Albert Hall in London, and all are brilliantly captured. —
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Finzi, Bax & Ireland: Choral Music
Daniel Cook (organ), Sebastian Braw-Smith (treble), Julian Stocker (tenor), Julian Empett (bass), Jeremy Suppey (treble), Simon Ponsford (countertenor), Daniel Livermore (treble), Jonathan Brown (bass)
Westminster Abbey Choir, James O'Donnell
The choir’s diffuse tone – breathier in the upper voices than rivals at New College or even King’s Cambridge – is very effective —
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2017, Choral & Song Choice
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Power and Crawford-Phillips are a superb duo, matching their depth and richness of tone with an energetic, passionate approach, and the warm sound lets them shine. —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2016, Editor's Choice
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