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Adopting this approach [curation around Schoenberg's paintings] enables Booth and Glynn to maximise the variety of musical expression explored in each of the themes with performances that respond... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2024, Choral & Song Choice
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Simpson: Geysir and Mozart: Gran Partita RecommendedMark Simpson, Fraser Langton (clarinet), Nicholas Daniel, Emma Fielding (oboe), Amy Harman, Dom Tyler (bassoon), Oliver Pashley, Ausias Garrigos Morant (basset horns), Ben Goldscheider, Angela Barnes, James Pillai, Fabian van de Geest (horn), David Stark (double bass)
In a teeming catalogue, this new Gran Partita more than holds its own. But the clinching factor for many will be Mark Simpson’s companion piece: a tour de force of wind colour and carefully... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 4th December 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2020
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2021, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Chamber
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Make no mistake, Romaniw is a great talent. The plush richness of her soprano is astonishing...Romaniw taps into the melancholy of the Russian songs especially well…The selection from Janáček’s... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2020
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2020, Editor's Choice
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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, Shortlisted - Song
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It’s an eclectic mix that combines nostalgia with a modern, shuffle-play sense of adventure. As Cheryl Frances-Hoad’s Bloom finds luminosity in the changing seasons, Huw Watkins’s Arietta suspends... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2021, Chamber Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2022, Winner - Premiere
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Ralph Vaughan Williams; Lennox Berkeley; Peter Warlock: Colourise RecommendedLondon Choral Sinfonia, Roderick Williams, Andrew Staples, Elena Urioste, Michael Waldron
The Songs come in a version for string orchestra and piano, stripped down (by VW himself) from the full orchestral version used at the work’s premiere. The gain in intimacy is palpable in Michael... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, July 2022
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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Vaughan Williams: Retrospect London Choral Sinfonia, Michael Waldron, Jack Liebeck (violin), Andrew Staples (tenor, Thomas Carroll (cello)
The two choral works showcase the unforced sensitivity of the London Choral Sinfonia, who skilfully avoid overheating the patriotism of Kipling’s text for ‘Land of our Birth’, and the funerary... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2024, Editor's Choice
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Heart & Hereafter RecommendedCollected songs of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Elizabeth Llewellyn (soprano), Simon Lepper (piano)
She’s a persuasive advocate for this largely unknown repertoire. Llewellyn has extensive operatic experience...and it shows in the Six Sorrow Songs that open the recital...Llewellyn leaves no... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2021, World Premiere Recording of the Year (Rediscovery)
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Newcomer
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The Schubert requires different interpretative skills [from the Weinberg], such as grace and elegance as well as a subtlety and variety of tonal colouring in balancing the three instruments... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2024, Chamber Choice
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Parton’s sound is agreeably brilliant, bright, open and high-lying...Lepper often breathes magic into less inspired compositions. Some of these composers are famous for over-egging, but this... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2023
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023, Shortlisted - Debut Solo Album
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The album is something of a scrapbook collated from past years; Berkeley is not one for epic statements, and there is none here — as both broadcaster and composer he shares a spirit of stimulating... — More…
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