Alamire
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Byrd 1588: Psalmes, Sonets & Songs of Sadnes and Pietie
RecommendedPsalmes, Sonets & Songs of sadnes and pietie
Alamire, Fretwork, David Skinner
The real beauty of these readings...is the singers’ poetic nuancing of the texts, which they articulate with glassy clarity. The members of Fretwork play with characteristic grace, weaving gossamer... —
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2021, Choral & Song Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Early Music
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Early Music
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Building a Library, July 2023, Recommended Recording
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Skinner's scholarly expertise both strengthens and weakens his conducting. Cadences, modal shifts and points of imitation steer his reading. Especially when the English Cornett & Sackbutt Ensemble... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2015, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Gramophone Awards, 2015, Winner - Early Music
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Everywhere [Skinner] negotiates an ear-opening path through the changing shapes and densities of Tallis’s ever-fluid formulations; the polyphony is delineated with laser-sharp precision, and... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2017
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2018, Concerto Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2018, Recording of the Month
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2018, Nominated - Vocal/Choral
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Byrd 1589: Songs of sundrie natures
Jacob Heringman (lute), Lynda Sayce, Clare Wilkinson (contralto), Fretwork (early music ensemble), Martha McLorinan (mezzo-soprano), Alamire, David Skinner
The Fretwork instrumentalists are supportive and nuanced throughout. —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2023, Editor's Choice
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Du bon du coeur
Eric Swartzentrube (tenor), Andrew Sokol (tenor), Melinda McMahon (mezzo-soprano)
Capella Alamire, Peter Urquhart
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International Classical Music Awards, 2020, Nominee - Early Music
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Tomkins - These Distracted Times
Jamal Sutton (organ)
Choir of Sidney Sussex College Cambridge, Fretwork & Alamire, David Skinner
The career of Thomas Tomkins straddled several reigns as well as the Cromwell era and this had an impact on his music, which otherwise reflects the influence of his mentor, William Byrd. Vocal... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2008, Disc of the Month
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Anne Boleyn’s Songbook
Music and Passions of a Tudor Queen
Clare Wilkinson (voice), Jacob Heringman (lute) & Kirsty Whatley (harp)
Alamire, David Skinner
Alamire's sound is robust and muscular, full-bodied rather than pristine. Mezzo-soprano Clare Wilkinson sings the solo songs with ingenuous simplicity, subtly inflecting the words with period... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2016, Choral Finalist
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Homophonic passages impress with their splendour, enriched here by the chestnut hues of basses William Gaunt and Robert Macdonald. The clarity of line lays bare the ingenuity of counterpoint,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2011, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. William Byrd: The Great Service & English Anthems
Stephen Farr (organ), Alamire, His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts, David Skinner
absolutely marvellous singers and beautiful balance. —
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Here's a truly scholarly project: a filling-out of the 15th-century Trinity Carol Roll, reconstructing a performable version of the words and vocal part-writing in the unfolded manuscript...A... —
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