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the result is coherently put together, with Hughes's resourceful vocal imagination and use of tone, plus the subtlety and careful placement of her decorations, drawing the ear again and again. —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2026, Editor's Choice
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Zuljan’s eclectic background as a guitarist, oud player and lutenist, combined with musical tastes that range from medieval to jazz, makes him highly responsive to the varied hues of Dowland’s... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2020, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Instrumental
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Chance’s tone is pellucid; notes fall round and clear as water drops...a recording in which Chance stakes serious claim to the title of his generation’s most exciting British countertenor. —
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2023
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2023, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Nominated - Young Talent of the Year
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Music For A While - Baroque Melodies
Anne Sofie Von Otter (Soprano), Jakob Lindberg (guitar & lute), Anders Ericson (theorbo) & Jory Vinikour (harpsichord & organ)
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2005, Editor's Choice
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Sophistication and refinement inform every note of Iestyn Davies's recital...this recording proves that the age of monochrome Dowland is over. —
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These works have sometimes been handled as trifles or decorative miniatures, but Iranian-American harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani treats them as profoundly expressive and introspective works.... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2018, Instrumental Choice
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2019, Nominated - Instrumental
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Julian Bream plays Dowland and Bach
Edith Steinbauer (treble viol), Beatrice Reichert (alto viol), Frieda Litschauer (tenor viol), Ernst Knava (bass viol), Julian Bream (lute/guitar)
The Golden Age Singers, Margaret Field-Hyde
…Bream's genius transcends all. Whether it's in the astonishing intensity of Dowland's Melancholy Galliard and Forlorn Hope Fancy or in the finely proportioned sense of pace and drama in Bach's... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2008, Re-issue of the Month
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International Classical Music Awards, 2020, Nominee - Early Music
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The atmosphere is intimate and confiding; the music presented simply with minimal ornament. Occasionally the long lines of the slower songs can bring a certain smoothing-out of the text, but... —
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Very Best of English Song
RecommendedDame Janet Baker (mezzo), Gerald Moore (piano), Sir Thomas Allen (baritone), Geoffrey Parsons (piano), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), David Willison (piano), Ian Partridge (tenor), Janet Craxton (piano), Ian Bostridge (tenor), Julius Drake (piano), Jonathan Lemalu (bass-baritone), Roger Vignoles...
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Building a Library, June 2018, Also recommended
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Building a Library, January 2021, Recommended orchestral version (Songs of Travel)
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