Sophie Bevan
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Special offer. Handel: Samson
RecommendedJoshua Ellicott (tenor), Sophie Bevan(soprano), Fflur Wyn (soprano), Mary Bevan (soprano), Jess Dandy (contralto), Hugo Hymas (tenor), Matthew Brook (bass), Vitali Rozynko (bass-baritone)
Dunedin Consort, John Butt
Butt has created the best Samson ever...These choral forces make for a vibrancy unique among Samson recordings…Butt’s deep grasp of both Handel’s rhetoric and of large-scale structure turns... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Baroque Vocal
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Critics' Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Finalist - Choral
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Choral
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Special offer. Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
Iestyn Davies (Orfeo), Sophie Bevan (Euridice), Rebecca Bottone (Amor)
La Nuova Musica, David Bates
Bates is, like Gluck, wonderfully radical. Where other directors smooth over disjunctions, he revels in rupture…This is directorship at its most alert, and aiding Bates is an optimal cast…Davies... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Opera
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2019, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Shortlisted - Opera
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Special offer. Handel: La Resurrezione
RecommendedLucy Crowe (Angel), Sophie Bevan (Mary Magdalene), Iestyn Davies (Mary Cleophas), Hugo Hymas (John the Evangelist), Ashley Riches (Lucifer)
The English Concert, Harry Bicket
La Resurrezione is one of Handel’s greatest works, and Harry Bicket has gifted us its greatest recording...Bicket and his stellar cast embrace Handel’s radical approach, turning sacred figures... —
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Record Review, 2nd April 2022, Record of the Week
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2022, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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New. De Profundis: Choral Works By Parry and Elgar
Sophie Bevan (soprano, Dominic Sedgwick (baritone), Rufus Frowde (piano), Hertfordshire Chorus, London Mozart Players, David Temple
The combined heft of the choir lends an impressive energy to 'Sustinuit anima mea, where two six-part choruses are deployed antiphonally. Sophie Bevan is a silken-toned soloist in her two arias,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2026, Editor's Choice
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Mendelssohn in Birmingham, Vol. 3
sung in English, Mary Bevan (soprano I), Sophie Bevan (soprano II) & Benjamin Hulett (tenor)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, CBSO Chorus, Edward Gardner
Calm Sea is one of Mendelssohn's most evocative pieces...and Edward Gardner conducts a most sensitive performance...[in the Symphony] Gardner stresses what over the years we have come to consider... —
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Special offer. Handel: The Triumph of Time and Truth
RecommendedSophie Bevan, Mary Bevan (sopranos), Tim Mead (countertenor), Ed Lyon (tenor), William Berger (bass)
Ludus Baroque, Richard Neville-Towle
Both Bevans sing with lustrous tone, natural agility and exquisite decorations, Lyon and William Berger (Time) with taut elegance and Tim Mead (Counsel) with immaculate poise. Though Neville-Towle's... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2014, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Special offer. Handel: Jephtha
RecommendedJames Gilchrist (Jephtha), Susan Bickley (Storge), Sophie Bevan (Iphis), Robin Blaze (Hamor), Matthew Brook (Zebul) & Grace Davidson (Angel)
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers
Christophers's taut, vibrant, and beautifully sprung account is bright and dazzling, yet so often the score ought to inhabit the tortured light and shade of Caravaggio...the choruses are finely... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Building a Library, January 2018, First Choice
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Perfido!
Concert-arias by Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven
Sophie Bevan (soprano)
The Mozartists, Ian Page
Bevan’s energy and assurance see her through some demanding vocal writing…Page conducts with vigour and the orchestra makes a strong showing. —
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2017
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International Opera Awards, 2018, Nominated - Solo Recital
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a format that allows these quartets, showing Mendelssohn at his best, to reveal their multifarious qualities: energy, passion, tenderness, wit and civilised authority...Overall, I can only applaud... —
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2014, Chamber Choice
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Special offer. Ralph Vaughan Williams: Pan's Anniversary and Other Works
Samuel West (narrator), Thomas Gould (violin), Thomas Hancox (piccolo), Mary Bevan, Joy Farrall (clarinet), Timothy West (narrator), Sophie Bevan, William Lockhart (percussion), Jess Dandy, Johnny Herford, Choir of Clare College Cambridge, Britten Sinfonia, William Vann
The vernal setting of that 1905 production with its costumed actors, dancers and musicians undoubtedly cast a spell. Stripped of these visual elements, and with Vaughan Williams not quite his... —
