Mhairi Lawson
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Special offer. Purcell: King Arthur
RecommendedAnna Dennis, Mhairi Lawson, Rowan Pierce, Carolyn Sampson (sopranos), Jeremy Budd (high tenor), James Way (tenor), Roderick Williams (baritone), Ashley Riches (bass-baritone)
Gabrieli Players, Paul McCreesh
Choruses are more vibrant, dance rhythms more percussive and solos more delicate than in any previous recording. Above all, McCreesh and his artists make us hear Purcell’s genius for word-setting…But... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2019, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Opera, February 2020, Disc of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2020, Winner - Opera
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2020, Recording of the Year
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2020
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Shortlisted - Opera
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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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The bulk of Britten's choral output, repackaged at budget level from full-price originals. Wonderfully sympathetic performances, rich recording. A top bargain for the Britten centenary. —
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Special offer. Landi, S: Il Sant'Alessio
Patricia Petibon, Sophie Marin-Degor, Mhairi Lawson, Stéphanie Revidat, Maryseult Wieczorek, Steve Dugardin, Armand Gavriilidès, Cécile Eloir, Katalin Károlyi, Christopher Josey, Nicolas Rivenq, Clive Bayley, Bertrand Bontoux
Arts Florissants Chorus / Arts Florissants Orchestra, William Christie
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Special offer. A Handefull of Pleasant Delites
Elizabethan Ballads and Dances
Mhairi Lawson (soprano), Erin Headley (viola da gama, lyra viol), Nancy Hadden (Renaissance flutes), Steven Player (guitar), Jacob Heringman (lute, cittern, viola da gamba), Vanessa Coode (viola da gamba), Lucy Carolan (harpsichord)
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Leighton: Choral Music
Finzi Singers, Anna Crookes, Michael McCarthy, Mhairi Lawson (soprano), Simon Preece, Andrew Lumsden (organ), James Oxley, Olive Simpson, Karen Fodor, Mark Milhofer, Matthew Brook (bass), Paul Spicer
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Wilby: An English Passion According to Saint Matthew
Jack Wilson, Mhairi Lawson (soprano), Helen Charlston (mezzo-soprano), Thomas Elwin, Ben McAteer, Seán Boylan, David Leigh, Belfast Cathedral Choir, Matthew Owens
This is a truly important release, all premiere recordings of works composed between 2014 and 2019 by a master craftsman. —
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Poetry that seems indecipherable in print becomes astonishingly communicative when so well sung with no cognitive distance between their fine voices and the dialects at hand. —
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Vivaldi - Music for the Chapel of the Pieta
Mhairi Lawson (soprano), Robert Howarth (organ), Sarah McMahon (cello solo)
La Serenissima, Adrian Chandler (violin & direction)
…Mhairi Lawson sings with secure intonation, expressive sensibility and pleasing warmth of colour. Chandler is the solo violinist in four strongly contrasted concertos… In two of them he is... —
