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Tomkins - When David Heard
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Choral » Anthems & Motets
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The line-up might play safe, but it’s all exquisitely done, collegiate smoothness and blend to the fore. And what blend! The harmonic voicing is immaculate yet always sensitive to the imperatives... —
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a varied treasure trove of seldom heard but extremely affecting music, nicely sung and spliced together with some darkly-glittering string In Nomines played by Fretwork...[They] easily persuade... —
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2012, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Poetry in Music
Ruth Provost, Kirsty Hopkins, David Clegg, Jeremy Budd, Ben Davies, Julie Cooper, Edward McMullan, Mark Dobell
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers
It is clear that this is something really special. That specialness comes not just from the fact that The Sixteen elevate everything they perform through their opulent musicality and supreme... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2015, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Shortlisted - Choral
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Where words and music most happily merge - for instance in Gibbons's Hosanna to the Son of David - the director and his vocalists exude confidence, animating melodic lines gracefully to reach... —
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The line-up might play safe, but it’s all exquisitely done, collegiate smoothness and blend to the fore. And what blend! The harmonic voicing is immaculate yet always sensitive to the imperatives... —
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Tomkins - These Distracted Times
Jamal Sutton (organ)
Choir of Sidney Sussex College Cambridge, Fretwork & Alamire, David Skinner
The career of Thomas Tomkins straddled several reigns as well as the Cromwell era and this had an impact on his music, which otherwise reflects the influence of his mentor, William Byrd. Vocal... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2008, Disc of the Month
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Much of the music on this excellent recording was composed during Tomkins's final decade, before his death in 1656 in relative obscurity... At all times, the Oxford Camerata, led by Jeremy Summerly,... —
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Clear trebles in Tallis's Salvator, alive rhythms in Philips's Ascendit —
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$11.50
