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Sorensen achieves a convincing transition between the two styles, using the plainchant as a kind of mediation...Sorensen specifies the positioning of the choir and individual voices: the outstanding... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2012, Choral & Song Choice
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Schütz - Weinachtshistorie & Auferstehunghistorie
Jakob Bloch Jespersen (bass), Johan Linderoth (tenor), Adam Riis (tenor) & Else Torp (soprano)
Ars Nova Copenhagen, Concerto Copenhagen & Sirius Viols, Paul Hillier
The performance is first-rate throughout. Natural, tractable voices create characterful images - in the Christmas Story, Else Torp an ethereal angel, Jakob Bloch Jespersen a sneering Herod.... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Finalist - Baroque Vocal
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Messiaen Edition RecommendedAn 18-CD set offering a comprehensive overview of Messiaen’s work in recordings made between 1963 and 2000.
Olivier Messiaen, Katia and Marielle Labeque, Yvonne Loriod (piano), Marie-Claire Alain (organ), Maria Oràn (soprano), Huguette Fernandez (violin), Guy Deplus (clarinet), Jacques Nielz (cello), Marie-Madeleine Petit (piano), pianos, Rachel Yakar (soprano), Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano), Dominique...
Messiaen's own performance of the large organ cycle Méditations sur le mystère de la Sainte-Trinité is included amongst the goodies on offer here. …it is thoroughly compulsive listening, and... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 7th July 2008
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2005, Special Review
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Building a Library, March 2017, First Choice
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Beethoven: Complete Symphonies Vol. 3 Copenhagen Phil, Ars Nova Copenhagen, Latvian Radio Choir, Lan Shui
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Thematic connections are to be teased out everywhere...Above all, this is consummate choral singing, Paul Hillier’s singers create moments of exquisite tenderness and stillness luminous, multi-coloured... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2021, Recording of the Month
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Mozart: Lucio Silla, K135 Henriette Bonde-Hansen (soprano), Susanne Elmark (soprano), Kristina Hammarström (mezzo soprano), Jakob Næslund Madsen (tenor), Simone Nold (soprano), Lothar Odinius (tenor) & Richard Lewis (harpsichord)
Danish Radio Sinfonietta & Ars Nova Copenhagen, Adam Fischer
The Milan premiere of Lucio Silla, on Boxing Day 1772, was a near-fiasco: ham acting from the last-minute tenor and the prima donna in a sulk. But from the second performance Mozart's second... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2008, Editor's Choice
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Anne Boyd's As I crossed a bridge of dreams (1975) gives its title to the CD and, with its rapt sostenuto, steals the show. Almost endlessly sustained, immaculately imagined, and - like everything... — More…
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Singing one-to-a-part, they produce splendidly full tone...These fine cantatas show that Buxtehude was much more than just a predecessor of Bach. The performances are both spirited and spiritual,... — More…
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David Lang - The Little Match Girl Passion
RecommendedRecording dates: October 29-November 1, 2008 Venue: Stavnsholt Kirke, Copenhagen, Denmark
Ars Nova Copenhagen, Theatre of Voices, Paul Hillier
Lang's artistic voice and diction are very individual, but his writing is rich in subtle echoes… All the pieces haunt you long after the CD has ended. — More…
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Grammy Awards, 52nd Awards (2009), Best Chamber Music Recording
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Ranging from plainchant and motets to 17th Century dialogues and contemporary carol settings, it sounds like it may come across as a bit of a hotchpotch. But it doesn’t at all and with singing... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 5th December 2011
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