Anna Dennis
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Special offer. Handel: Amadigi di Gaula
Tim Mead (Amadigi), Mary Bevan (Melissa), Anna Dennis (Oriana), Hilary Summers (Dardano), Patrick Terry (Orgando), Early Opera Company, Christian Curnyn
Handel took a less-is-more approach to his Amadigi di Gaula. Christian Curnyn’s answering restraint reveals the stark solos, shimmering textures, ringing silences and stunning one-to-a-part... —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2022, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2022, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2022
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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. John Eccles: Semele
RecommendedAnna Dennis (Semele), Richard Burkhard (Jupiter), Helen Charlston (Juno), Aoife Miskelly (Ino), William Wallace (Athamas), Héloïse Bernard (Iris); Academy of Ancient Music Julian Perkins
Cast, band, director and sound are all top-notch, restoring Eccles’s score to its full glory...Thanks to Perkins’s deft casting, each principal’s vocalism and dramatis persona are wonderfully... —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2021, Recording of the Month
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Opera, April 2021, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2021, Editor's Choice
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Record Review, 30th January 2021, Record of the Week
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Opera
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Monteverdi: L'Orfeo
Charles Daniels (Orfeo), Faye Newton (Euridice), Emily Van Evera (Messaggiera), Clare Wilkinson (Speranza/Proserpina), Curtis Streetman (Caronte), Christopher Purves (Plutone), Anna Dennis (Ninfa), Guy Pelc (Apollo)
Taverner Consort & Players, Andrew Parrott
Daniels is magnificent in the title role - technically brilliant...impassioned...and lyrically supple...The rest of the cast is also good...Faye Newton is a pure and effective Euridice...As... —
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2013, Opera Choice
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Tom Coult: Pieces That Disappear
Tom Coult, Anna Dennis (soprano), Daniel Pioro (violin), Elena Schwarz, BBC Philharmonic, Martyn Brabbins, Andrew Gourlay
There is something ominous about the debut album from Tom Coult . Across four works, he takes us to darkly dramatic places with his expressive writing and playful textures. —
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Shortlist, Contemporary
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Special offer. Rushton: The Shops
Darren Abrahams (tenor), Anna Dennis (soprano), Phyllis Cannan (contralto), Richard Burkhard (baritone), Louise Mott (mezzo-soprano) & Paul Reeves (bass)
The Opera Group, Patrick Bailey
Patrick Bailey ably conducts the Opera Group’s excellent performance, recorded at live London performances last year. Doubtless, some will buy this disc to keep their NMC collection up to date.... —
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Alexander Kastalsky: Requiem
RecommendedJoseph Charles Beutel (bass-baritone), Anna Dennis (soprano), Cathedral Choral Society, The Clarion Choir, The Saint Tikhon Choir, Kansas City Chorale, Orchestra Of St. Luke's, Leonard Slatkin
Most of the music is clearly steeped in the Orthodox tradition, infused with memories of Mozart’s Requiem, but includes disquieting elements such as the Musorgsky-like funeral bell chord which... —
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Grammy Awards, 63rd Awards (2021), Nominee - Best Choral Performance
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The Monteverdi Trilogy
Furio Zanasi (baritone), Lucile Richardot (mezzo-soprano), Krystian Adam (tenor), Hana Blažiková (soprano), Gianluca Burrato, Michał Czerniawski, Gareth Treseder, Kangmin Justin Kim (soprano), Carlo Vistoli (countertenor), Anna Dennis (soprano), Marianna Pizzolato (mezzo-soprano), Francesca Boncompagni,...
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Monteverdi: Madrigals of Love and Loss
Thomas Walker (tenor), James Gilchrist (tenor), Katherine Watson (soprano) & Anna Dennis (soprano)
Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen
These are not easy pieces, but the opening ballet swings along with panache, and there is some excellent tenor solo singing in the first section. —
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Special offer. Mozart: Mass in C Minor & CPE Bach: Heilig Ist Gott
Anna Dennis, Lucy Crowe (sopranos), Jess Dandy (contralto), Nicholas Mulroy (tenor), Robert Davies (baritone), Dunedin Consort, John Butt
Butt ’s vision for the Great Mass underlines Mozart ’s debt to Bach and Handel, full of ecclesiastical brilliance in the Credo and Sanctus thanks to Kemme’s historically informed trumpet and... —
