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Alder needs her linguistic wits about her – pianist Joseph Middleton too as he responds to or prefigures her changing colours and inflections. Both triumph across a nightscape in which dreaming... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 3rd January 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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The Times Records of the Year, 2020
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The Poet’s Echo
Britten - Prokofiev - Shostakovich
Gemma Summerfield (soprano), Gareth Brynmor John (baritone), Abi Hyde-Smith, Jocelyn Freeman (piano)
The album’s main glory is the singing of Gemma Summerfield, a soprano endowed with a firm technique and an intense tone with laser-beam attributes even on high. Phrasing and expression are excellent,... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2023
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Few voices of this kind scale down effectively in song recital, but Bullock has a spectrum of vocal colours which she puts at intelligent service of the text - and in Malcolm Martineau she has... —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2007, Choral & Song Choice
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Joan Rodgers’s live recitals of Russian song, and her earlier Tchaikovsky album for Hyperion, set up huge expectations for this disc of four song cycles which have become classics of the repertoire.... —
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What an inspired idea not only to bring together Britten's mature foreign-language songs, but also to have the programme shared by two of Britain's keenest and brightest singers. …delight and... —
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Special offer. Britten: Complete Songs Volume 1
Malcolm Martineau (piano), James Geer (tenor), Ben Johnson (tenor), Caryl Hughes (mezzo), Philip Smith (baritone), Nicky Spence (tenor), Katherine Broderick (soprano), Robin Tritschler (tenor), Andrew Tortise (tenor)
James Geer, a tenor with an instinct for the inflection of poetry that matches the composer's own, offers 'A Dirge'...Katherine Broderick brings by turns a forlorn beauty and a fiery plangency... —
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A sweetly scented posy, this...Perfect, too, for all who love Sampson's fragrant, light-filled, warmly communicative soprano. Surprisingly, this is her solo recital debut on disc. The bouquet... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2015, Finalist - Solo Vocal
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