Ars Nova Copenhagen
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Thematic connections are to be teased out everywhere...Above all, this is consummate choral singing, Paul Hillier’s singers create moments of exquisite tenderness and stillness luminous, multi-coloured... —
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2021, Recording of the Month
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Sorensen achieves a convincing transition between the two styles, using the plainchant as a kind of mediation...Sorensen specifies the positioning of the choir and individual voices: the outstanding... —
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2012, Choral & Song Choice
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Special offer. Mozart: Lucio Silla, K135
Henriette Bonde-Hansen (soprano), Susanne Elmark (soprano), Kristina Hammarström (mezzo soprano), Jakob Næslund Madsen (tenor), Simone Nold (soprano), Lothar Odinius (tenor) & Richard Lewis (harpsichord)
Danish Radio Sinfonietta & Ars Nova Copenhagen, Adam Fischer
The Milan premiere of Lucio Silla, on Boxing Day 1772, was a near-fiasco: ham acting from the last-minute tenor and the prima donna in a sulk. But from the second performance Mozart's second... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2008, Editor's Choice
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Anne Boyd's As I crossed a bridge of dreams (1975) gives its title to the CD and, with its rapt sostenuto, steals the show. Almost endlessly sustained, immaculately imagined, and - like everything... —
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Special offer. Beethoven: Complete Symphonies Vol. 3
Copenhagen Phil, Ars Nova Copenhagen, Latvian Radio Choir, Lan Shui
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Schütz - Die sieben Worte Jesu Christi am Kreutz & Johannes-Passion
ARS NOVA Copenhagen & Sirius Viols, Paul Hillier
Paul Hillier paces the narrative subtly, from down-to-earth description to slow contemplation...The singers, admirably matched, are helped by the church acoustic, which warms the tone without... —
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David Lang - The Little Match Girl Passion
RecommendedRecording dates: October 29-November 1, 2008 Venue: Stavnsholt Kirke, Copenhagen, Denmark
Ars Nova Copenhagen, Theatre of Voices, Paul Hillier
Lang's artistic voice and diction are very individual, but his writing is rich in subtle echoes… All the pieces haunt you long after the CD has ended. —
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Grammy Awards, 52nd Awards (2009), Best Chamber Music Recording
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Schütz - Weinachtshistorie & Auferstehunghistorie
Jakob Bloch Jespersen (bass), Johan Linderoth (tenor), Adam Riis (tenor) & Else Torp (soprano)
Ars Nova Copenhagen, Concerto Copenhagen & Sirius Viols, Paul Hillier
The performance is first-rate throughout. Natural, tractable voices create characterful images - in the Christmas Story, Else Torp an ethereal angel, Jakob Bloch Jespersen a sneering Herod.... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Finalist - Baroque Vocal
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Ranging from plainchant and motets to 17th Century dialogues and contemporary carol settings, it sounds like it may come across as a bit of a hotchpotch. But it doesn’t at all and with singing... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 5th December 2011
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[Vox Reportage] can seem uncomfortably close to a virtuoso demonstration of the manifold noises top chamber choirs are capable of creating nowadays…It left me a little unsettled and enervated,... —
