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Berlioz: L'Enfance du Christ, Op. 25
RecommendedVéronique Gens (Marie), Alastair Miles (Herod/Ishmaelite Father), Yann Beuron (Narrator), Stephan Loges (Joseph)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Robin Ticciati
Beuron, still probably France's finest lyric tenor, a compelling Recitant with open, ardent tones and warm delivery...Miles is a splendidly anguished but restrained Herod and benign Ishmaelite,... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd December 2013
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Philippe Rogier: Music from the Missae Sex His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts & Magnificat, Philip Cave
The Council of Trent would have been pleased: with just two voices per part, and with clear diction and articulation from the members of Magnificat, the texts are generally easy to follow. The... — More…
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Alpha & Omega: Choral Music by James MacMillan
Madeleine Mitchell (violin)
Cappella Nova, Alan Tavener & James MacMillan
Cappella Nova make James MacMillan's Missa Dunelmi sound much easier to sing than it is, and that's a compliment...Perhaps it helps having MacMillan himself directing: it's interesting his default... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2014, Choral & Song Choice
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Haydn: The Creation
(sung in German)
Amanda Forsythe (soprano), Keith Jameson (tenor) & Kevin Deas (bass-baritone)
Boston Baroque, Martin Pearlman
[a] clean account, nicely scaled and finely balanced...There's skilful work throughout from the three soloists...Pearlman displays a keen sense of the music's shape and encompasses its range... — More…
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Britten: My Beloved is Mine
Song cycles by Benjamin Britten
James Gilchrist (tenor) & Anna Tilbrook (piano)
Gilchrist is as agile as his pianist and evidently attuned to the importance of her role...the mystic union of ground-bass piano with confident vocal line in the concluding 'Death, be not proud'... — More…
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The Prince Consort: Other Love Songs
Songs by Brahms and Stephen Hough
The Prince Consort: Alisdair Hogarth (piano), Anna Leese (soprano), Jennifer Johnston (mezzo-soprano), Andrew Staples (tenor), Tim Mead (countertenor), Jacques Imbrailo (baritone) & Guest artists: Stephen Hough (piano), Philip Fowke (piano)
finely judged, delightfully youthful performances...Hough finds a language, a style, a startling response for the unique and elusive scent of each poem. There are solos and various pairings... — More…
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The subtle hues of the choir, an elite corps from Winchester Cathedrals, are particularly impressive in Byrd's Lamentation, a piece in which voicing gives the music its momentum. Yet the beauty... — More…
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Haydn: Lord Nelson Mass
Mary Wilson (soprano), Abigail Fischer (mezzo-soprano), Keith Jameson (tenor) & Kevin Deas (bass-baritone)
Boston Baroque, Martin Pearlman
this new account opens with impact, even if the florid upper strings occasionally have to struggle against the implacable tirades of chorus, trumpets and drums. And the quartet of soloists led... — More…
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