Rebecca Lea
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Special offer. Kenneth Leighton: Every Living Creature
Londinium, Finchley Children’s Music Group, Andrew Griffiths
…This recording is a triumph for all involved, not least director Andrew Griffiths, who was no doubt the main force behind this project, and not forgetting composer Kenneth Leighton, whose music... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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The vocal timbre Hollingworth has coaxed from his soloists is intensely pure and smooth, yet there is nothing pallid about this particular early-music sound – surges of passion abound. —
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Maltworms and Milkmaids: Warlock and the Orchestra
Ben McAteer, Nadine Benjamin (soprano), Helen Neeves, Rebecca Lea (soprano), BBC Concert Orchestra, BBC Singers, David Hill
a sugar rush is skilfully sidestepped thanks to some adroit programming that leavens the ‘merry England’ period charm with strategically placed antidote...the star of the album is Ben McAteer... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2023
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Rebecca Dale: Night Seasons
Steven Isserlis (cello), Richard Harwood, Ben Dawson, Victoria Meteyard (soprano), Ben Russell, Klara Romac, Tom Walley, Olivia Jageurs, Rebecca Lea (soprano), Rosanna Wicks (soprano), Guy Johnston (cello), Richard McVeigh, Philharmonia Orchestra, Tenebrae, Michael Collins, Nigel Short
Dale’s skills are best expressed in the titular concerto ‘Night Seasons’...The piece as a whole is by turn penetrating and genuinely poignant, and certainly makes this release worth owning. —
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Ablaze With Light
Choral Music by William Petter
Paul Plummer (organ)
The Rose Singers, Peter Foggitt
both a touching personal memorial and a tantalising glimpse of a talent just coming into bloom...Petter has a gift for vocal spacing, and the result is spacious music that seems, in these accomplished... —
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Special offer. David Matthews: Complete String Quartets, Vol. 5
Rebecca Lea (soprano), Jess Dandy (mezzo-soprano), James Robinson (tenor), Will Dawes (baritone), Kreutzer Quartet
