Silas Wollston
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Gentleman Extraordinary
Anthems, Services, and Instrumental Music by Thomas Weelkes
Resurgam, The English Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble, Mark Duley
Resurgam demonstrate the power and confidence of their ensemble, with bold lower voices and an attractive treble sheen from the sopranos. —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2024, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Shortlisted - Early Music
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From the very first track (Tunder’s ‘Salve mi Jesu’) we encounter the central delight of this recording – the pure, clear countertenor voice of Iestyn Davies. His sense of phrasing and awareness... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Voice & Ensemble
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In variation-based pieces, cornetist Glenton, keyboardist Silas Wollston and violinist Bojan Cicic pull material out of nowhere, like magicians…Keeling’s four-movement Northern Soul redeems... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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They weave melodic lines with virtuosity, harnessing the delicious interplay between dissonance and consonance...This magnificent album celebrates the eloquence and ingenuity of early tonal... —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2025, Chamber Choice
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In Chains of Gold: The English Pre-Restoration Verse Anthem, Volume 3
‘Ah, His Glory!’: Anthems of Praise, Prayer and Remembrance
Magdalena Consort, Fretwork, His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts, Silas Wollston (organ)
In a nutshell, the transformed vocality, scale and rhetoric of the music-making is far closer to Italianate madrigals than ethereal choral balm. —
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The players obviously relish these convivial musical conversations and the album makes for felicitous listening and, for the uninitiated, a perfect introduction to Locke’s viol consorts. —
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Jean-Marie Leclair: Violin Sonatas, Book 3; Op.5, Nos. 5-8
Adrian Butterfield (violin), Sarah McMahon (cello), Silas Wollston (harpsichord)
The continuo playing is reliable and tasteful, and Butterfield’s sound has an attractive sweetness in all registers that is easy on the ears. He plays with relaxed confidence, and the players... —
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Special offer. For The Wings Of A Dove: Music of Supplication and Hope
The Choir of Queens’ College, Cambridge, Silas Wollston
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Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonatas For Violin and Harpsichord
Adrian Butterfield (violin), Silas Wollston (harpsichord)
Adrian Butterfield’s sweetly focused violin tone and Silas Wollston’s elegant accompanying are well matched. —
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Chefs d'oeuvre de la musique classique française
Jean-Pierre Aumont, Raymond Gerome, Klara Kormendi, Erik Satie, Peter Toperczer, Marián Lapšanský, Jennifer Gilbert, Orchestre National de Lyon, Leonard Slatkin, モーリス・ラヴェル, ジェニファー・ギルバート, フランス国立リヨン管弦楽団, Maria Stratigou, Gottlieb Wallisch (piano), Barthold Kuijken (flute), Arnie Tanimoto, Donald Livingston,...
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