Nicholas Mulroy
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Monteverdi - Vespers
RecommendedCarolyn Sampson, Rebecca Outram, Daniel Auchincloss & Nicholas Mulroy
The King’s Consort, Robert King
Despite four wonderful volumes of Monteverdi's sacred music from The King's Consort, nothing will prepare you for the ecstatic consequences of taking seriously at least one aspect of Monteverdi's... —
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Building a Library, April 2007, First Choice
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Building a Library, December 2010, First Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2006, Editor's Choice
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Bach, J S: St John Passion, BWV245
RecommendedIan Bostridge (Evangelist), Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Nicholas Mulroy (tenor), Neal Davies (bass), Iestyn Davies (countertenor) & Roderick Williams (baritone)
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment & Polyphony, Stephen Layton
this new recording's credentials border on the unassailable...Layton's pacing is compelling - there's no mistaking the gambling fever as the soldiers cast lots for Christ's garment...[Neal Davies]... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 18th February 2013
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2013, Editor's Choice
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Special offer. Handel: Messiah
RecommendedSusan Hamilton (soprano), Annie Gill (mezzo), Clare Wilkinson (alto), Nicholas Mulroy (tenor), Matthew Brook (bass), Edward Caswell (bass)
Dunedin Consort, John Butt
The Dunedin Consort's recording of Handel's Messiah strips the work back to how it was performed at its first outing in Dublin. Even less ornate than other 'authentic' performances, it is innately... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Winner - Baroque Vocal
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Building A Library, April 2022, Also Recommended
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Sophie Daneman’s sensuous soprano offsets the boyish voice of the 15-year-old Rosanna Wicks, while the airy trebles of Salisbury Cathedral Choir balance the earthier tones of the lay clerks... —
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Record Review, 11th March 2017, Recording of the Week
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Special offer. Handel: Acis and Galatea
RecommendedSusan Hamilton, Nicholas Mulroy, Thomas Hobbs, Nicholas Hurndall Smith & Matthew Brook
Dunedin Consort & Players, John Butt
The chief strength of this account lied in the excellent instrumental playing (the recorders that form the 'warbling choir' addressed in Galatea's first aria are sheer magic)… —
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Building a Library, July 2009, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Finalist - Baroque Vocal
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2009, Disc of the Month
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Monteverdi - The Sacred Music 1
Carolyn Sampson, Rebecca Outram (sopranos), Roger Covey-Crump, Nicholas Mulroy, Daniel Auchincloss (high tenors), Charles Daniels, James Gilchrist (tenors), Peter Harvey, Robert Evans (basses)
The King's Consort, Robert King
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Special offer. JS Bach: Magnificat & Christmas Cantata 63
Reconstruction of Bach's first Christmas Vespers in Leipzig
Julia Doyle (soprano), Joanne Lunn (soprano), Clare Wilkinson (alto), Nicholas Mulroy (tenor), Matthew Brook (bass)
Dunedin Consort, John Butt
It’s an absolute joy – far too good to keep for Christmas. —
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BBC Music Magazine, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2015, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Finalist - Baroque Vocal
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Special offer. Bach, J S: St Matthew Passion, BWV244
RecommendedNicholas Mulroy (Evangelist), Matthew Brook (Jesus), Susan Hamilton (Soprano), Cecilia Osmond (Soprano), Clare Wilkinson (Alto), Annie Gill (Alto), Malcolm Bennett (Tenor) & Brian Bannatyne-Scott (Bass)
Dunedin Consort & Players, John Butt
One-to-a-part Bach infiltrated the St Matthew Passion with Paul McCreesh in 2002. I described him then as 'provocative and compelling', and John Butt is no less so. Of his eight remarkable... —
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Building a Library, April 2012, First Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2008, Choral & Song Choice
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Johann Christoph Pepusch: Chandos Anthems
The Girl Choristers of Canterbury Cathedral, The Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen,
Robert Rawson , to whom we owe a debt of gratitude for his rehabilitation of an unjustly overlooked composer, directs with both style and affection. —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2024, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Bach, J S: Christmas Oratorio, BWV248
RecommendedMary Bevan (soprano), Clare Wilkinson (alto), Nicholas Mulroy (tenor), Matthew Brook (bass) - Cantatas 1, 3, 6), Joanne Lunn (soprano), Ciara Hendrick (mezzo), Thomas Hobbs (tenor), Konstantin Wolff (bass) - Cantatas 2, 4, 5.
Dunedin Consort, John Butt
It has the same sense of freshness as previous releases…[with] a pleasing transparency of texture, and nimbly sprung rhythms under John Butt’s scholarly direction —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd December 2016
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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