Eccles, J
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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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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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Approaching the repertoire with a shared musical vision, they produce ravishingly expressive accounts from curtain up to lights down...De Swarte plays a noble Jacob Stainer violin from 1665 (formerly... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2021, Chamber Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Winner - Baroque Instrumental
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Chamber
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D’Oustrac is dazzling across these various personae, to which she brings not only luscious vocalism but also a blistering intensity. No less impressive is the Ensemble Amarillis…for zest and... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2020, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2020, Editor's Choice
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Purcell: Tyrannic Love
Ensemble Les Surprises, Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas, Eugénie Lefebvre, Etienne Bazola
The theme is love, but there’s nothing coy or sugary about either music or performances that embrace extremes of emotion and expression...Much of this is theatre music, and in the absence of... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2021, Editor's Choice
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[Sirius Viols] balance eloquence and virtuosity here in a finely-judged equilibrium. Their sound is pellucid, ensemble and articulation flawless. The inventive continuo realisations paint the... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2017, Chamber Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2017, Editor's Choice
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John Eccles: The Mad Lover
Olivia Vermeulen (mezzo-soprano)
Capella Orlandi Bremen, Thomas Ihlenfeldt
Fortunately, music-making of this quality is guaranteed to ease the heart as well as the national conscience. — More…
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This is a terrific collection, funny, moving and exciting by turns, a shoo-in for my end-of-year ‘Best of 2023’ list — More…
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The pieces by Lully are performed very stylishly...Textures and tuning can be a little murky at times, but Lucile Tessier directs throughout with panache and insight. — More…
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Sound the Trumpet: Music By Purcell & His Followers (English Orpheus 35) Mark Bennett (trumpet), Michael Laird (trumpet), Frank de Bruine (oboe), Judy Tarling (violin)
The Parley of Instruments, Peter Holman
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