Katie Bray
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New. Eden: The Music of Edward Picton-Turbervill
Katie Bray (mezzo-soprano), George English, Hugh Rowlands, Hannah Watson Emmrich, Ed Lyon (tenor), Hugo Herman-Wilson, Michael Foyle (violin), London Choral Sinfonia, Michael Waldron
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Special offer. Bach: Ich habe genug. Cantatas BWV 32, 82 & 106
Joanne Lunn, Katie Bray, Hugo Hymas, Robert Davies, Matthew Brook, The Dunedin Consort, John Butt
As with all their releases, John Butt and the Dunedins approach the scores from a scholarly angle (Butt’s approachable notes guide us through various musical and liturgical considerations) but... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2021, Choral & Song Choice
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2021
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2022, Winner - Choral
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Waley-Cohen: Spell Book
Manchester Collective, Heloise Werner (soprano), Katie Bray (mezzo-soprano), Fleur Barron (mezzo-soprano), Tamsin Waley-Cohen (violin), Anne Beilby (viola), Nathaniel Boyd (cello)
The reckless verve of ‘spell for joy’ comes in total contrast with the elemental starkness of ‘spell for change’ – which, in its turn, could hardly be more removed from the incremental patterns... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2024
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2024, Editor's Choice
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In Search of Youkali: Songs of Kurt Weill
Katie Bray (mezzo), William Vann (piano), Murray Grainger (accordion), Marianne Schofield (double bass)
Bray's singing matches well with both texts and notes from the barbed vulnerability of the first song from The Threepenny Opera onwards and indeed entering throughout into the spirit of the... —
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Special offer. Stephen Dodgson: Turn Ye to Me, Songs, Vol. 3
Ailish Tynan (soprano), Christopher Glynn (piano), James Gilchrist (tenor), Katie Bray (mezzo-soprano), Mark Eden (guitar), Roderick Williams (baritone)
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Haydn: Die Sieben Letzten Worte Unseres Erlösers Am Kreuze, Hob. Xx:2
Konzerthausorchester Berlin, RIAS Kammerchor, Justin Doyle
Caught in the clear and spacious acoustic of Berlin's Konzerthaus, Justin Doyle and his forces (modern instruments played with period awareness) balance gravity with dramatic urgency. —
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Stephen Dodgson: The Distances Between - Songs, Vol. 2
Ailish Tynan (soprano), Marcus Farnsworth (baritone), Christopher Glynn (piano), Katie Bray (mezzo-soprano), Mark Eden, Ian Wilson
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David Matthews: Symphony No. 7 & Vespers
Katie Bray (mezzo-soprano) & Matthew Long (tenor)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, The Bach Choir, David Hill, John Carewe
Non-doctrinal yet celebrating the religious sense as such, this is a work both of great beauty and genuine spiritual force...I was moved and rather awed by the mastery of large forces to such... —
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Robert & Clara Schumann: Rückert Lieder
Roderick Williams (baritone), Sholto Kynoch (piano), Katie Bray (mezzo), Robert Murray (tenor), Mary Bevan (soprano)
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Special offer. Stephen Dodgson: The Peasant Poet - Songs, Volume 1
James Gilchrist, Mark Eden, Katie Bray, Christopher Glynn, Roderick Williams, Ailish Tynan, Ian Wilson
Pianist Christopher Glynn adroitly elicits the diverse character of each song...Some of the songs themselves might draw more from the texts, but these approachable, sometimes quirky vignettes... —
