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Missy Mazzoli: Dark with Excessive Bright RecommendedPeter Herresthal (violin), Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, James Gaffigan, Arctic Philharmonic, Tim Weiss
The orchestras here hail from Norway, where their own experience of dark light perhaps enables their instinctive response to Mazzoli’s arresting blend of apparent opposites. — More…
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Grammy Awards, 66th Awards (2024), Nominee - Best Classical Compendium
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Grammy Awards, 66th Awards (2024), Nominee - Best Contemporary Classical Composition (Dark With Excessive Bright)
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2024, Shortlisted - Premiere
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If, as is often said, Bach saw fugue as simply the most natural medium for composing beautiful music, Suzuki demonstrates that it is also good for the exciting, the playful, the sombre, and... — More…
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Heroines of Love and Loss vocal chamber music from the 17th century
Ruby Hughes (soprano), Mime Yamahiro Brinkmann (cello) & Jonas Nordberg (lute / theorbo / archlute)
Ruby Hughes’s soprano has an effortless beauty: pliant, subtly expressive, never forced. She captures the chaste fervour of the sacred works…Brinkmann and Nordberg proffer aptly spontaneous... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2017, Editor's Choice
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Vaughan Williams: Orchestral Works
RecommendedLouis Lortie (piano), Carla Huhtanen (soprano), Emily D’Angelo (mezzo-soprano), Lawrence Wiliford (tenor) & Tyler Duncan (baritone), Sarah Jeffrey (oboe), Teng Li (viola)
Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Elmer Iseler Singers, Peter Oundjian
The solo playing by Toronto Symphony principal Teng Li offers deep weight of tone, rapturous phrasing, and a musical personality that mesmerises the ear; the choral singing is superbly focused... — More…
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Grammy Awards, 61st Awards (2019), Nominee - Classical Compendium
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Juno Awards, 2019, Classical Album of the Year - Large Ensemble
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Mendelssohn: Symphonies & Overtures
Lucy Crowe (soprano), Jurgita Adamonytė (mezzo), Michael Spyres (tenor), Alexander Knox (Puck), Ceri-lyn Cissone (Titania), Frankie Wakefield (Oberon), Maria Joao Pires (piano)
London Symphony Orchestra, The Monteverdi Choir, Sir John Eliot Gardiner
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Of the three more substantial items, the two most familiar [Le Cid and the Scenes pittoresques]...are played by Neeme Jarvi and his Swiss orchestra with infectious panache and finesse. — More…
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Masaaki Suzuki plays Buxtehude Masaaki Suzuki (playing the Klapmeyer Organ of St Nicolai Church, Altenbruch)
on the Wilde-Schnitger Organ of St Jacobi Church, Lüdingworth
Suzuki strikes a perfect accord between an expressively singing solo line and its fastidiously-shaped accompaniment. — More…
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there’s a sense of eavesdropping on a spontaneous yet eloquently-argued soliloquy. Colouring is subtle, conversational banter deftly managed, and Lindberg’s tempos always feel spot on, allowing... — More…
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The Honour of William Byrd Helen Charlston (mezzo-soprano), Ibrahim Aziz, Alison Kinder, Kate Conway, Sam Stadlen, Jennifer Bullock, Harry Buckoke
Chelys Consort of Viols
Whether or not these vocal works were meant to be sung by male singers is debateable, but Helen Charlston’s rich, deep timbre make such distinctions irrelevant. Supple, controlled and vibrato... — More…
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