Alex Potter
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Special offer. JS Bach: Cantatas Nos. 45 & 198 & Motet 'O Jesu Christ, mein Lebens Licht'
RecommendedDorothee Mields (soprano), Alex Potter (counter-tenor), Thomas Hobbs (tenor), Peter Kooij (bass), Collegium Vocale Gent. Philippe Herreweghe
O Jesu Christ, meins Lebens Licht, is tailor-made for Herreweghe. No one else peels back those tactile homogeneous phrases with quite such luminosity and deep-seated finesse as Collegium Vocale. —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2021, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Finalist - Choral
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Bach, J S: Mass in B minor, BWV232
RecommendedMaria Keohane (soprano), Joanne Lunn (soprano), Alex Potter (countertenor), Jan Kobow (tenor), Peter Harvey (bass)
Concerto Copenhagen, Lars Ulrik Mortensen
To my mind, Mortensen’s special performance, which is full to the brim with insightful musicianship and has a refreshing avoidance of contrived formulas, comfortably joins Parrott (EMI), Junghänel... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2016, Editor's Choice
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Building a Library, February 2017, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Shortlisted - Baroque Vocal
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Special offer. Handel: Messiah
RecommendedLucy Crowe (soprano), Alex Potter (countertenor), Michael Spyres (tenor), Matthew Brook (bass), The English Concert & Choir, John Nelson
The theatrical instincts that have served Nelson so well in Berlioz ensure some detailed characterisation such as the semiquaver flurry of beating wings as the angels prepare to impart their... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 22nd December 2023
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Nominated - Choral Recording of the Year
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Special offer. Handel: Brockes-Passion
Arcangelo (early music ensemble), Alex Potter, Stuart Jackson (tenor), Konstantin Krimmel (baritone), Sandrine Piau (soprano), Andrew Tortise (tenor), Mhairi Lawson (soprano), Matthew Long, Mary Bevan (soprano), Marcus Farnsworth (baritone), David Allsopp, William Gaunt, Jonathan Cohen
You’re in safe hands here. Arcangelo bring their Baroque expertise to this pristine interpretation of Handel’s Brockes Passion. The soloists are fabulous, particularly Sandrine Piau, who shimmers... —
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Record Review, 13th March 2021, Record of the Week
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Sunday Times, 21st March 2021, Disc of the Week
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Record Review, Records of the Year 2021
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New. Vision.bach - the First Cantata Year, Vol. 10 (BWV 86, 37, 44, 59, 172.2, 173.2, 184.2)
Hans-Christoph Rademann, Gaechinger Cantorey
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Handel: Dixit Dominus, Laudate Pueri, Nisi Dominus
RIAS Kammerchor, Akademie Für Alte Musik Berlin, Justin Doyle
The vigorous opening movement [of Dixit Dominus] for the chorus, splendidly done, is followed by the continuo-only ‘Virgam virtutis’, smoothly sung by Alex Potter and with a prominent bass... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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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: Cantatas BWV 6, 99 & 147
Alex Potter (soloist), Dorothee Mields (soloist), Peter Kooij (soloist), Guy Cutting (soloist), Collegium Vocale Gent, Philippe Herreweghe
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The performances by a consort of 10 singers and 16 players are lovingly and respectfully done, and create a sound to please the ear...An album to please lovers of Baroque byways. —
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Conductor of the Year
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