Signum
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Bliss sounds well to the fore in the Weber…Riding the Carducci Quartet’s neatly articulated or sensitively sustained accompaniments, Bliss tackles the score with a piercingly pure, vibrato-less... — More…
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Record Review, 3rd November 2018, Disc of the Week
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Building a Library, March 2019, Also Recommended
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Fretwork’s approach is generally weightier and more introspective [than Phantasm's] – a mood enhanced by Signum’s closer recorded balance. Fretwork captures the brooding quality of the minor-mode... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 14th January 2022
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2022
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Barry: Alice's Adventures Under Ground Claudia Boyle, Gavan Ring, Peter Tantsits, Stephen Richardson (bass), Clare Presland, Alan Ewing, Hilary Summers (contralto)
Irish Chamber Orchestra, André de Ridder
The variety of styles presented in this short, single-act opera is mind-boggling... In another setting, under another composer, all this might seem bizarre, but such musical references are so... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2021
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Contemporary
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Contemporary Music
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Contrapunctus really knows what to do with these pieces and from the very first item...the tuning is superb and the ensemble rock solid. Moreover, Owen Rees's interpretations are revelatory... — More…
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Sunday Times, 2015, Albums of the Year
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2015, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2015, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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The sound image is compelling on its own terms, with the homogeneity typical of ensembles with countertenors on the top lines. But it's a flexible interpretation nonetheless...an involving experience. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2013, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Finalist - Early Music
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Building a Library, December 2016, First Choice
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In Chains of Gold: The English Pre-Restoration Verse Anthem Vol. 2
RecommendedWilliam Byrd to Edmund Hooper: Psalms and Royal Anthems
Magdalena Consort, Fretwork, His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts, with Silas Wollston (organ)
The underpinning scholarship doesn’t just run to artful reconstructions, teasing missing viol parts out of extant organ sources…The grainy, dark hues of Fretwork’s viols lend extra introductory... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th June 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Britten: War Requiem, Op. 66
RecommendedSusan Gritton (soprano), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Christopher Maltman (baritone)
Wroclaw Philharmonic Choir, Gabrieli Young Singers Scheme, Trebles of The Choir of New College Oxford & Gabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh
[McCreesh's] New College choristers have the ideal mix of celestial glow and nimble impatience; his orchestra is wonderfully articulate. And the sound picture has the greatest depth of range... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2014, Choral Award Winner
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Britten: Peter Grimes RecommendedAlan Oke (Peter Grimes), Giselle Allen (Ellen Orford), David Kempster (Captain Balstrode), Gaynor Keeble (Auntie), Alexandra Hutton (First Niece), Charmian Bedford (Second Niece), Robert Murray (Bob Boles), Henry Waddington (Swallow), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (Mrs Sedley), Christopher Gillett (Rev. Horace...
[Bedford] has the sea-swell of the work deep in his bones...[Oke's] is a strong, ballasted performance, less purely plangent than many, but deeply moving in its simple strength and keen imagination...There's... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2013, Disc of the month
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2014, Opera Award Winner
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The famed King’s Singers attention to pin-point pitching, slick ensemble, and deft balances between the voices are present in abundance. The two Beatles arrangements are particularly successful…The... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2017, Editor's Choice
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Grammy Awards, 61st Awards (2019), Nominee - Classical Compendium
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The Nyman performances are exemplary – crisp and cleanly articulated from Fretwork and dispatched by Davies with a vacant, unrippled purity that is so essential to the music, and must be hard... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2019, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Critics' Choice
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