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Imaginative, sensitive programming has been a constant feature of Ruby Hughes’s collaborations; and this latest with the perennially adventurous Manchester Collective is no exception...A disc... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2024, Choral & Song Choice
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The sound of Jakob Lindberg's lute, made by Sixtus Rauwolf in the last decade of the 16th century, is unusually warm...It a meticulously voiced recital that moves between court, theatre and... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2014, Instrumental Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2014, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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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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These performances seem to glow with an inner light. I don’t see how they could be improved upon. — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Finalist - Early Music
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Halász avoids cliché, the more familiar repertoire tempered by the lesser known, and contrasts of style and substance. Halász’s playing is deeply expressive, finding a huge variety of tones.... — More…
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Not surprisingly, this is unrelentingly austere stuff. If, however, choral gloom is your bag, it is also an imaginatively programmed recital, immaculately sung and recorded in superb sound. — More…
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La Spagna: A Tune Through Three Centuries Variations on a Spanish Theme
Atrium Musicæ de Madrid, Gregorio Paniagua
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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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There’s nothing didactic about Jonas Nordberg’s Dowland – nor does he wallow in the melancholy often associated with the English Renaissance master. Instead, the Swedish lutenist draws us into... — More…
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