Christopher Glynn
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Booth's remarkable capabilities as a singing actress allow her to encompass the multiple personas, verbal dexterity and moments of emotional nakedness that characterise Cocteau's poetry, as... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th June 2026
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Special offer. Beethoven: Sonatas For Violin and Piano Op. 12 No.1, Op. 24 & Op. 96
RecommendedRachel Podger (violin), Christopher Glynn (piano)
Listening to Rachel Podger (on the ‘Mauri’ Strad) and Christopher Glynn (on an 1840 Erard) is like experiencing the music in the clear light of day for the first time. Gone are those texturally... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 25th March 2022
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2022, Chamber Choice
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VOCES8’s gorgeous sound, impeccable ensemble and intense responsiveness to text, harmony and melodic shape is all of the highest quality...when Whitacre deploys a touch more harmonic bite, his... —
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2023, Choral & Song Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Contemporary Music
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Eric Whitacre: Light & Gold
RecommendedGrace Davidson (soprano), Stephen Kennedy (baritone), Hila Plitmann (spoken Hebrew) & Christopher Glynn (piano)
The Eric Whitacre Singers, Laudibus, The King’s Singers & Pavão Quartet, Eric Whitacre
'The Stolen Child'...is the most immediately impressive. Here Whitacre deftly weaves the entreating faerie voices of Yeats's poem with that of the 'human child'...The burgeoning crescendo which... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2010, Disc of the Month
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Grammy Awards, 54th Awards (2011), Best Choral Performance
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Donald Swann: Songs
Christopher Glynn (piano), Roderick Williams (baritone), Dame Felicity Lott (soprano), Kathryn Rudge (mezzo), John Mark Ainsley (tenor)
this is a continually fascinating and diverse selection...The real star of the show is Christopher Glynn, for whom the project has evidently been a labour of love. The detail and colour of his... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, July 2017
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The surprises come thick and fast…Her bright soprano can be a bit squeezed in the more conventional love-lyrics, but revels in the unorthodox, and Glynn ranges the colour-palette too. The presentation... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2021
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2021, Choral & Song Choice
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2021
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Special offer. Mozart/Jones: Violin Sonatas Fragment Completions
RecommendedRachel Podger (violin), Christopher Glynn (piano)
The fruits of Timothy Jones’s engagement with Mozart’s unfinished violin sonatas make pleasant listening…if you were listening with an innocent ear you probably wouldn’t suspect that you weren’t... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th March 2021
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Spence ranges with great nuance through romance, awkwardness, brashness, selfdoubt, the madness and loneliness of unrequited love, the vulnerability, all done with that little bit of theatricality... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2022
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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Special offer. Arnold Schoenberg: Expressionist Music
Claire Booth (soprano), Christopher Glynn (piano)
Adopting this approach [curation around Schoenberg's paintings] enables Booth and Glynn to maximise the variety of musical expression explored in each of the themes with performances that respond... —
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2024, Choral & Song Choice
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Reger: Choral Music
with Alice Gribbin (soprano) & Christopher Glynn (piano)
Consortium, Andrew-John Smith
The performances are fine indeed, but more than anything, it's the music itself that strikes you - it's both utterly unique and breathtakingly beautiful...Andrew-John Smith's group are perfectly... —
