Synergy Vocals
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What gives Drumming (1970-71) its hypnotic allure is a sense of toppling jeopardy…Colin Currie Group’s own recording, honed through long performance practice, brings you into a magic circle... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2018, Editor's Choice
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Diapason d’Or, April 2018, Nouveauté
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Steve Reich: Jacob's Ladder/Traveler's Prayer
RecommendedNew York Philharmonic, Synergy Vocals, Colin Currie Group, Jaap van Zweden, Colin Currie
Reich's concept of an assisted afterlife ascent is imbued with complication. Rather than represent the climb through the more musically obvious scales, Reich instead opts for hazier melodic... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 25th July 2025
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Special offer. Steve Reich: Music For 18 Musicians
Colin Currie (percussion), Colin Currie Group, Synergy Vocals
Currie’s connection with this music is unashamedly deep, bordering on the spiritual...Likewise, the listener ’s relationship with this recording is dependent on the ability to enter a place... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2023, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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Colin Currie & Steve Reich Live at Fondation Louis Vuitton
Colin Currie (percussion), Steve Reich (percussion)
Colin Currie Group, Synergy Vocals
A powerful rhythmic incisiveness and assertiveness that marked the group’s excellent recording of Drumming (5/18) is again apparent throughout… Synergy Vocals impart a beautiful, haunting performance,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2019, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Contemporary Music
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Critics' Choice
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MacMillan: Since it was the day of preparation…
RecommendedBrindley Sherratt (bass)
Hebrides Ensemble, Synergy Vocals
Since it was the day of preparation is on the face of it a chamber piece, with just ten performers needed. Yet in an extraordinarily perceptive and affecting manner it broaches enduring universal... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 24th June 2016
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2016, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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John Adams: Absolute Jest
RecommendedOrli Shaham (piano) & Marc-André Hamelin (piano)
Synergy Vocals, San Francisco Symphony & St. Lawrence String Quartet, Michael Tilson Thomas & John Adams
Here is wit, rough passion, gravity and playfulness...the dialogue between the St Lawrence String Quartet and the San Francisco Orchestra is brilliantly cogent and clear. Absolute Jest is a... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 14th August 2015
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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John Luther Adams: Arctic Dreams
Robin Lorentz (violin), Ron Lawrence (viola), Michael Finckel (cello), Robert Black (double bass), Synergy Vocals
...yet another magical manifestation from a seemingly inexhaustible well. —
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Steve Reich: Collected Works
Steve Reich, Mahan Esfahani (early keyboard instruments), Steve Reich Ensemble (miscellaneous ensemble), Kronos Quartet (string quartet), Pat Metheny (guitar), Maya Beiser (cello), Colin Currie (percussion), Ensemble Intercontemporain (chamber ensemble), San Francisco Symphony, London Symphony Orchestra,...
Along the way, his music gains in social and spiritual significance; sometimes video imagery too (as in the DVD of Three Tales). But the biggest bliss for this listener came with Ensemble Signal’s... —
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The Times, Best Classical Box Sets Christmas 2025
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The New York Times, Best Classical Music Albums of 2025
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Steven Mackey: Dreamhouse
Rinde Eckert (soloist), Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Synergy Vocals, Catch Electric Guitar Quartet, Gil Rose
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Anthems
Richard Cottle (programmer), Richard Cottle (keyboards), The Arts Symphonic Orchestra, Robert Emery (director), Nicola Moloney (background vocal), Miriam Grey (background vocal), Angela Brooks (background vocal), Shèna Winchester (background vocal), Tommy Blaize (background vocal), Synergy Vocals,...
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