Browse: Helen Charlston (mezzo-soprano)
This page lists all recordings performed by Helen Charlston.
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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... — More…
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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, Concept Album of the Year
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Jan Ladislav Dussek: Messe Solemnelle
RecommendedStefanie True (soprano), Helen Charlston (mezzo-soprano), Gwilym Bowen (tenor), Morgan Pearse (bass), Choir of the AAM, Academy of Ancient Music, Richard Egarr
The work is fluent, imaginatively orchestrated with impressive contrapuntal writing…This enjoyable, well recorded rendition, with lovely solo singing, has clear passionate advocacy; notwithstanding... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 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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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Winner - Choral
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Choral
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John Eccles: Semele
RecommendedAnna Dennis (Semele), Richard Burkhard (Jupiter), Helen Charlston (Juno), Aoife Miskelly (Ino), William Wallace (Athamas), Héloïse Bernard (Iris); Academy of Ancient Music Julian Perkins
Cast, band, director and sound are all top-notch, restoring Eccles’s score to its full glory...Thanks to Perkins’s deft casting, each principal’s vocalism and dramatis persona are wonderfully... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2021, Recording of the Month
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Opera, April 2021, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2021, Editor's Choice
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Record Review, 30th January 2021, Record of the Week
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Opera
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Isolation Songbook RecommendedHelen Charlston (mezzo-soprano), Michael Craddock (baritone), Alexander Soares (piano)
The results are varied, from comic miniatures to distilled dramas and contemplative outpourings, but together add up to a recital that’s hard to resist, at once fresh and profoundly familiar. — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Purcell: Dido & Aeneas
Fleur Barron (Dido), Matthew Brook (Aeneas), Giulia Semenzato (Belinda), Avery Amereau (Sorceress), Tim Mead (Spirit), Nicky Spence (Sailor), Hilary Cronin (Second Woman), Helen Charlston, Martha McLorinan (Witches), La Nuova Musica, David Bates
The suspense, vibrancy and richly layered musical textures of chorus and band have no equal in the discography. The Witches’ scene is an exuberant Gothic festival, with creepily dilating long... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Opera
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Ēriks Ešenvalds: Northern Lights
& other choral works
with Rachel Ambrose Evans (soprano), Hannah Partridge (soprano), with Michael Craddock (bass), with Sally Pryce (harp), with Jamie Roberts (tenor), with Hannah King (soprano), Jonathan Pacey (bass), Zane Šmite (jaw harp), with Anna Cavaliero (mezzo-soprano), with Helen Charlston (mezzo-soprano), Hiroshi...
One of the chief pleasures of this CD is right at the beginning - the silvery duetting of Rachel Ambrose Evans and Hannah Partridge...Their fluid delivery of the little grace notes is delectable,... — More…
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Offer, How Are the Mighty Fallen: Choral Music By Giovanni Bononcini Rowan Pierce, Esther Lay, Helen Charlston, Guy Cutting
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The Honour of William Byrd
Helen Charlston (mezzo-soprano), Ibrahim Aziz, Alison Kinder, Kate Conway, Sam Stadlen, Jennifer Bullock, Harry Buckoke
Chelys Consort of Viols
Whether or not these vocal works were meant to be sung by male singers is debateable, but Helen Charlston’s rich, deep timbre make such distinctions irrelevant. Supple, controlled and vibrato... — More…
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An Elizabethan Christmas RecommendedByrd, Holborne, Gibbons, Peerson, Weelkes
Fretwork, Helen Charlston
The songs are interspersed with short instrumental pieces, including two genial fantasies ‘for ye great dooble bass’ by Gibbons. All are played with Fretwork’s typical attunement to the sensibilities... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 3rd December 2021
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Yulefest! Christmas music from Trinity College Cambridge
Trinity College Choir Cambridge, Stephen Layton
All the popular selections…sound notably relaxed and idiomatic, the choir's stylistic versatility confidently demonstrated. — More…
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