Simon Lepper
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The qualities one values so much in Degout’s Fauré – the integration of text and line, his almost instinctive use of colour and dynamics, the uncompromising directness of expression – are those... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2019
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2019, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Vocal
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Critics' Choice
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Special offer. Heart & Hereafter
RecommendedCollected songs of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Elizabeth Llewellyn (soprano), Simon Lepper (piano)
She’s a persuasive advocate for this largely unknown repertoire. Llewellyn has extensive operatic experience...and it shows in the Six Sorrow Songs that open the recital...Llewellyn leaves no... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2021, World Premiere Recording of the Year (Rediscovery)
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Newcomer
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Day of These Days
The British Isles Reflected in Song
Tristan Hambleton (bass-baritone), Simon Lepper (piano)
It's the quality of the performances as much as the attractions of an unusual programme (eight items new to disc) that make this assemblage so desirable. Everything is considered, imaginative... —
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2026, Vocal Choice
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Parton’s sound is agreeably brilliant, bright, open and high-lying...Lepper often breathes magic into less inspired compositions. Some of these composers are famous for over-egging, but this... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2023
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023, Shortlisted - Debut Solo Album
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Arcayurek’s tenor voice has a pleasing baritonal hue to it, and there’s plenty of dramatic oomph when necessary, too. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Vocal
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Arcayürek is a young Turk, light of voice, but not in the English tenor mode…On the one hand, I am relieved to hear a singer who doesn’t go in for elaborate interpretation…On the other, I found,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2017, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Christopher Purves sings magnificently, spinning an enviable thread of legato through the narrative of each song. A consummate actor, too, with commanding diction, he invariably finds a distinctive... —
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2023, Choral & Song Choice
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Special offer. Fleur de mon âme
Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano), Simon Lepper (piano), Royal Scottish National Orchestra Soloists
The intimacy and tenderness which she and Lepper bring to Hahn's evergreen À Chloris is worth the price of the disc alone, but everything here is utterly beguiling, with the strings of the RSNO... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2021
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Degout’s superb voice sounds wonderfully virile throughout his impressive range...In the more testosterone-driven songs, he sounds suitably heroic…Felicity Palmer has a magnificent cameo as... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2020
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Special offer. John Pickard: Songs
Simon Lepper (piano), Roderick Williams (baritone), Eve Daniell (soprano)
These songs are a model of word-setting in their clarity of focus, the music truly interpreting and providing context for Binyon’s poems…Simon Lepper accompanies both singers in exemplary fashion.... —
