Early Music - up to 35% off selected titles
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Early Music - up to 35% off selected titles, Academy of Ancient Music (early music ensemble)
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Infinite Refrain: Music of Love’s Refuge RecommendedRandall Scotting (counter-tenor), Jorge Navarro Colorado (tenor), Academy of Ancient Music, Laurence Cummings
Scotting borrows your heart in Monteverdi’s ‘Con che soavità’ when a lover asks how can one speak and kiss at the same time, while conductor Laurence Cummings and the Academy of Ancient Music... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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Bach, J S: St John Passion, BWV245 James Gilchrist (Evangelist), Neal Davies (Christus), Sophie Bevan (soprano/Ancilla), Iestyn Davies (alto), Ed Lyon (tenor arias), Toby Ward (Servus), Benedict Kearns (Petrus), Roderick Williams (bass arias/Pilatus)
Academy of Ancient Music & King's College Choir Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury
Cleobury has assembled an unassailable team of soloists, whose powerful insights gild Neal Davies’s Jesus, a characterisation of immense presence and authority. — More…
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Bach, J S: St Matthew Passion, BWV244 RecommendedJames Gilchrist (Evangelist), Matthew Rose (Jesus), Ashley Riches (Pilatus), Elizabeth Watts (soprano), Sarah Connolly (alto), Thomas Hobbs (tenor), Christopher Maltman (bass), Richard Egarr (director & harpsichord)
Academy of Ancient Music & Choir of the AAM
Singing and playing are highly polished and assured throughout, with James Gilchrist superb as the Evangelist, and Matthew Rose a credible if rather forceful Jesus — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 6th April 2015
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Mozart: Requiem Realisations Elin Manahan Thomas (soprano), Christine Rice (mezzo), James Gilchrist (tenor), Christopher Purves (bass)
The Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, Academy of Ancient Music, Stephen Cleobury
The standard of the performance is high, so long as you want a liturgical version, one that might be used at a service...This is an educative set, and it is interesting to listen to the alternative... — More…
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Handel - Dettingen Te Deum Richard Marlow (organ)
The Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge & Academy of Ancient Music, Stephen Layton
Layton fervently rethinks every detail. His tempos are faultless, the Academy of Ancient Music plays as though possessed, and Neal Davies's solos lend an authority complementing the more soft-grained... — More…
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Handel - Chandos Anthems Nos. 7, 9 & 11 Emma Kirkby (soprano), Iestyn Davies (countertenor), James Gilchrist (tenor), Neal Davies (bass)
Trinity College Choir Cambridge & Academy of Ancient Music, Stephen Layton
Layton never over-inflates the music but rather invigorates it through carefully detonated points of detail: the explosive choral entry which cuts the polite bluster introducing 'Let God Arise'... — More…
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Bach, J S: St John Passion, BWV245 James Gilchrist (Evangelist), Matthew Rose (Jesus), Ashley Riches (Pilatus), Elizabeth Watts (soprano), Sarah Connolly (alto), Andrew Kennedy (tenor), Christopher Purves (bass)
Academy of Ancient Music, Richard Egarr
No one could accuse Richard Egarr of skimping in this new John Passion...It's not just the pedigree of the solo line-up that oozes luxury...Egarr whips up venomous indignation for the crowd's... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Shortlisted - Baroque Vocal
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Purcell: The Cares of Lovers Rowan Pierce (soprano), William Carter (theorbo)
Academy of Ancient Music, Richard Egarr
Pierce’s voice is delicious: clear, strong, supple, with sparkling top notes and a warm, textured middle and low register. She’s mistress of her words, bending vowels and clipping consonants... — More…
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Vivaldi & Handel Grace Davidson (soprano)
Academy of Ancient Music, Bojan Čičić (leader), Joseph Crouch (artistic director)
By turns achingly lyrical and sprinkled with vocal fireworks, Handel’s motets present a winning showcase for a soprano such as Davidson, blessed with the ability to soar, to warm a note with... — More…
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Selected Signs III-VIII (Music for ECM - A Cultural Archeology) Gidon Kremer, Keith Jarrett, Tatjana Grindenko, Alfred Schnittke, Márta Kurtág, Márta & György Kurtág, Kim Kashkashian, Alexei Lubimov
Steve Reich and Musicians, Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, Rosamunde Quartet, Münchener Kammerorchester, Saulius Sondeckis, Alexander Liebreich
Five stars for mostly reissued music might seem generous, but the way this set has been assembled creates transporting new narratives – or meditations – from sequences that were never meant... — More…
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