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Early Music - up to 35% off selected titles, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (orchestra)
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Bach, J S: St John Passion, BWV245 RecommendedIan Bostridge (Evangelist), Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Nicholas Mulroy (tenor), Neal Davies (bass), Iestyn Davies (countertenor) & Roderick Williams (baritone)
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment & Polyphony, Stephen Layton
this new recording's credentials border on the unassailable...Layton's pacing is compelling - there's no mistaking the gambling fever as the soldiers cast lots for Christ's garment...[Neal Davies]... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 18th February 2013
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2013, Editor's Choice
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Handel: Chandos Anthems Nos 5a, 6a & 8 RecommendedSusan Gritton (soprano), Thomas Hobbs (tenor) & Iestyn Davies (countertenor)
Trinity College Choir Cambridge & Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Stephen Layton
It says much for Layton's skill that he has managed to retain their companionable intimacy despite super-sizing his own resources to a choir of more than 30 singers with orchestra to match...Layton... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th July 2013
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Handel: Saul RecommendedChristopher Purves (Saul), Iestyn Davies (David), Lucy Crowe (Merab), Sophie Bevan (Michal), Paul Appleby (Jonathan), Benjamin Hulett (High Priest) & John Graham-Hall (Witch of Endor)
The Glyndebourne Chorus & Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Ivor Bolton (conductor) & Barrie...
Pivotal is Christopher Purves’s Saul – surely the father-in-law from hell should the Goliath-slaying David choose his daughter Michal (or son Jonathan – tenderly sung by Paul Appleby). Purves... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Opera, December 2015, Recording of the Month
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Bach, J S: Christmas Oratorio, BWV248 RecommendedKatherine Watson (soprano), Iestyn Davies (countertenor), James Gilchrist (tenor) & Matthew Brook (bass)
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment & Trinity College Choir Cambridge, Stephen Layton
Layton unwraps it with all due festive pomp and circumstance...In a work incontestably smitten with the alto voice, Iestyn Davies triumphs...Gilchrist's relaxed and lyrical Evangelist maintains... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd December 2013
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Bach, J S: Mass in B minor, BWV232 Katherine Watson (soprano), Helen Charlston (mezzo-soprano), Iestyn Davies (countertenor), Gwilym Bowen (tenor), Neal Davies (bass)
Trinity College Choir Cambridge, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Stephen Layton
[Iestyn Davies] discharges a beautifully inflected ‘Qui sedes’, impeccably warmed and coloured by a discreet vibrato that instinctively knows its expressive place…Watson’s soaring soprano also... — More…
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Monteverdi: Vespro della beata Vergine (1610) Robert Howarth (director/harpsichord)
Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightenment & Choir of the Age of the Enlightenment
What is impressive is the grammatical sense (underpinned by flexible accentuation) that the choir brings to the projection of the words in Dixit Dominus and at many other places. Also, as we... — More…
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Aksel! Arias by Bach, Handel & Mozart
Aksel Rykkvin (treble)
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Nigel Short
Exceptionally polished performances … mightily impressive vocal control from the 13 year old Norwegian treble. The arias are well chosen. — More…
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Handel - Great Oratorio Duets Carolyn Sampson (soprano) & Robin Blaze (counter-tenor)
The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Nicholas Kraemer
The duets selected here… form an attractive programme, especially when the two voices are as well blended and as perfectly in tune as Carolyn Sampson's and Robin Blaze's. …whether the mood... — More…
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Handel Box Set Sarah Connolly (Cesare), Danielle de Niese (Cleopatra), Angelika Kirchschlager (Sesto), Christophe Dumaux (Tolomeo), Patricia Bardon (Cornelia), Christopher Maltman (Achilla) & Rachid Ben Abdeslam (Nireno), Sonia Prina (Rinaldo), Varduhi Abrahamyan (Goffredo), Tim Mead (Eustazio), Anett Fritsch...
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Handel Box Set Sarah Connolly (Cesare), Danielle de Niese (Cleopatra), Angelika Kirchschlager (Sesto), Christophe Dumaux (Tolomeo), Patricia Bardon (Cornelia), Christopher Maltman (Achilla) & Rachid Ben Abdeslam (Nireno), Sonia Prina (Rinaldo), Varduhi Abrahamyan (Goffredo), Tim Mead (Eustazio), Anett Fritsch...
