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Stabat Mater Daniel Taylor (counter-tenor and Director), Emma Kirkby (soprano)
Theatre of Early Music
Emma Kirkby at her most serene is matched by Taylor as if they were two faces of a single musical entity. With first-rate surround-sound recording and a warm ambience, this is a disc not to... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2009, Editor's Choice
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Ferguson, Bliss & Holloway: Octets & Clarinet Quintet Isabelle van Keulen, Sini Simonen, Scott Dickinson, Kristina Blaumane, Tim Gibbs, Michael Collins, Robin O’Neill, Alberto Menéndez Escribano, Rachel Roberts, Tim Gill, Diego Incertis Sánchez
Wigmore Soloists
With violinist Isabelle van Keulen and clarinettist Michael Collins spearheading the players, it ’s unsurprising that the performance [of the Ferguson Octet] as a whole is something of a revelation. — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2024, Chamber Choice
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Villa-Lobos - Chôros Volume 2 Fabio Zanon (guitar), Dante Yenque, Ozéas Arantes & Samuel Hamzem (horn) & Darrin Coleman Milling (bass trombone), Linda Bustani and Ilan Rechtman (piano)
São Paulo Symphony Orchestra, John Neschling
How many Chôros are there? Fourteen numbered examples (with two claimed as “lost”), two Chôrosbis, a Wind Quintet en forme de Chôros and a con- cluding (!) choral-and-orchestral “Introduction... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2008, Editor's Choice
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2009
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For Kamu, [Tapiola] is a drama of the imagination and one discerns dimly the forest god moving between the trees, just as Sibelius intended. WIth superb sound, this is strongly recommended. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th August 2011
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Camilla Tilling sings Gluck and Mozart Arias Camilla Tilling (soprano)
Musica Saeculorum, Philipp von Steinaecker
In this outstandingly accomplished selection of 18th-century operatic arias, Camilla Tilling demonstrates just how rewarding such albums can be when executed with the most genuine kind of musico-dramatic... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2017, Opera Choice
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The Times Records of the Year, 2017
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Opera, May 2017, Recording of the Month
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Igor Stravinsky, Bartók & Martinů Frank Peter Zimmermann (violin), Bamberger Symphoniker, Jakub Hrůša
With Jakub Hrůša and his super-attentive Bamberg orchestra, Frank Peter Zimmermann trumps the self-confident projection of his younger self...Stravinsky’s framing movements seem defter now,... — More…
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The Contrast RecommendedEnglish Poetry in Song
Carolyn Sampson (piano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Huw Watkins’s Larkin settings are the main reason to invest in this recital — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, February 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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This is a delight: sprightly, well-articulated playing which bounds with vitality. The Archduke starts in an almost improvisatory spirit...The energy of the performance is driven by the pianist... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2023, Chamber Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2023, Editor's Choice
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Håkan Hardenberger plays Dean and Francesconi Håkan Hardenberger (trumpet)
Gothenburg Symphony, John Storgårds
Most bewitching is the soulfulness of Hardenberger’s response as Francesconi pays poetic tribute to that real-life hero of the trumpet and more, Miles Davis. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2017, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Finalist - Contemporary
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Bach - Cantatas Volume 30 RecommendedCarolyn Sampson (soprano)
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
Solo soprano and trumpet… have long made Bach's cantata 'Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen' a favourite with audiences. …this new performance with Carolyn Sampson and trumpeter Toshio Shimada is... — More…
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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