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Purcell - O lead me to some peaceful gloom (from Bonduca or The British Heroine, Z574)
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Charlston's mezzo is as dark and full-bodied as a good claret, and she offers highly expressive readings of the texts, plumbing their depths with cut-glass diction and a glorious range of colours... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2022
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2022, Choral & Song Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Winner - Vocal
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Winners, Concept Album of the Year
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In War & Peace
RecommendedHarmony Through Music
Joyce DiDonato (mezzo)
Il Pomo d'Oro, Maxim Emelyanychev
Though the top of her voice is wiry under pressure, her coloratura is tightly sprung, her diction is flawless, and her phrasing of the often underrated poetry is sympathetic and sophisticated…Il... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2016, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Winner - Recital
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ECHO Klassik Awards, 2017, Winner
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Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Nominee - Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Opera, January 2017, Recording of the Month
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Special offer. Heroines of Love and Loss
vocal chamber music from the 17th century
Ruby Hughes (soprano), Mime Yamahiro Brinkmann (cello) & Jonas Nordberg (lute / theorbo / archlute)
Ruby Hughes’s soprano has an effortless beauty: pliant, subtly expressive, never forced. She captures the chaste fervour of the sacred works…Brinkmann and Nordberg proffer aptly spontaneous... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2017, Editor's Choice
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The Echoing Air
RecommendedThe Music of Henry Purcell
Sylvia McNair (soprano)
The Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood
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Grammy Awards, 38th Awards (1995), Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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This is not quite a complete lexicon (there are no ‘mad songs’ for example) but it offers a worthy platform for the acclaimed musical and dramatic skills of Randall Scotting and Stephen Stubbs. —
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Supported with exceptional clarity by Jakob Lindberg, Kirkby conveys both intellectual appreciation and a deep emotional connection with the words in this recital...[her] 'Bess of Bedlam' is... —
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Special offer. 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... —
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Special offer. Henry Purcell: Ayres & Songs from Orpheus Britannicus
Harmonia Sacra & Complete Organ Music
Jill Feldman (soprano), Nigel North (archlute), Sarah Cunningham (bass viol)
Davitt Moroney
Instrumental contributions are exemplary, not least Davitt Moroney’s account of the organ works which interleave the sacred items. —
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Music for a while
Purcell songs
Alfred Deller (counter tenor), Wieland Kuijken (bass viol), William Christie (harpsichord)
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Purcell: Sweeter than Roses & Britten: Winter Words
Ian Partridge (tenor), George Malcolm (harpsichord), Jennifer Partridge (piano)
