Rowan Pierce
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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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Special offer. Purcell: The Cares of Lovers
Rowan Pierce (soprano), William Carter (theorbo)
Academy of Ancient Music, Richard Egarr
Pierce’s voice is delicious: clear, strong, supple, with sparkling top notes and a warm, textured middle and low register. She’s mistress of her words, bending vowels and clipping consonants... —
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Henriëtte Bosmans: Concertos
Gemma Rosefield, Benjamin Nabarro, Rowan Pierce, BBC Philharmonic, George Vass
A composer of undeniable lyric gifts and sensibility, her output straddles the shift from late romanticism to 1920s modernism with considerable aplomb...The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra play like... —
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Schubert in English Vol. 4
Roderick Williams (baritone), Rowan Pierce (soprano), Christopher Glynn (piano)
There’s nothing at all reverential about Jeremy Sams’s translations of the 21 songs here. They are witty, fit the music like an expensive glove and tell good stories, but, importantly, they... —
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Special offer. Cecilia McDowall: Cantatas
Rowan Pierce (soprano), Katie Bennington (oboe), Choir of Royal Holloway, Orchestra Nova, Royal Holloway Choir, George Vass
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How Are the Mighty Fallen: Choral Music By Giovanni Bononcini
The Choir of Queen's College, Oxford, Elizabeth Nurse (mezzo-soprano), Colin Danskin (tenor), Daniel Tate (bass-baritone), Esther Lay (mezzo-soprano), Helen Charlston (vocalist), Rowan Pierce (soprano), Giles Underwood (bass-baritone), Guy Cutting (tenor), The Choir of the Queen's College Oxford,...
Concise choruses are sung with a sure sense of harmonic shaping and immaculate diction, although Bononcini’s setting concentrates primarily on movements designed for soloists. —
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Special offer. Orchestral Series Highlights 2021 (Edinburgh International Festival)
Rowan Pierce (soloist), BBC Symphony Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Chineke! Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Edinburgh Festival Chorus, Dalia Stasevska, Elim Chan, William Eddins, Marin Alsop, Thomas Søndergård
a Chineke! commission, Ayanna Witter-Johnson’s Blush, is tightly played under William Eddins, full of locomotive energy. Peter Maxwell Davies’s A Spell for Green Corn is superb here under Marin... —
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Fearful Symmetry: Songs and Piano Music By John Sykes
Rowan Pierce (soprano), William Vann (piano), Gareth Brynmor John (baritone), Iain Farrington (piano)
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It is a display of some neglected music tastefully and elegantly performed. Rowan Pierce is an accomplished singer with a growing international reputation. Ashley Solomon is in charge of historically... —
