Julia Doyle
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Special offer. Orazio Benevoli: Missa Benevola
RecommendedI Fagiolini (early music ensemble), The City Musick, Robert Hollingworth
The keynote here again is sheer sonic splendour, captured by a detailed sound recording that’s almost overwhelming at times (but in the best sense), with a particularly powerful bass register. —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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Special offer. Handel: Israel in Ägypten
RecommendedLydia Teuscher, Julia Doyle (sopranos), Hilary Summers (alto), Benjamin Hulett (tenor), Roderick Williams (bass)
Choir of The King’s Consort & The King’s Consort, Robert King
the performance makes a strong case for the piece, even if Mendelssohn's version is unlikely to make a full-scale comeback. The choir is lively, making every word clear, though some of King's... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 11th March 2016
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2016, Editor's Choice
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Bach: St. John Passion
RecommendedNick Pritchard (Evangelist), William Thomas (Christus), Alex Ashworth (Pilatus), Julia Doyle (soprano), Alexander Chance (countertenor), Peter Davoren (tenor)
English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, Sir John Eliot Gardiner
the wonder is that in the circumstances the performance emerges so taut, dramatically focused, and exactingly crafted...singing off-score, his choir doesn’t so much relay the narrative as inhabit... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2022, Editor's Choice
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Record Review, 26th February 2022, Record of the Week
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Grammy Awards, 65th Awards (2023), Nominee - Best Choral Performance
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Conductor of the Year
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Special offer. JS Bach: Magnificat & Christmas Cantata 63
Reconstruction of Bach's first Christmas Vespers in Leipzig
Julia Doyle (soprano), Joanne Lunn (soprano), Clare Wilkinson (alto), Nicholas Mulroy (tenor), Matthew Brook (bass)
Dunedin Consort, John Butt
It’s an absolute joy – far too good to keep for Christmas. —
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BBC Music Magazine, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2015, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Finalist - Baroque Vocal
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Special offer. Handel: L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato
Maria Keohane (soprano), Benjamin Hulett (tenor), Julia Doyle (soprano), Andreas Wolf (bass)
Cologne Chamber Choir, Collegium Cartusianum, Peter Neumann
Neumann's choir is exemplary at phrasing, textures and diction...The soloists are excellent vocally and stylistically, and deliver Milton's poetry with sympathetic sweetness...Neumann achieves... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Shortlisted - Baroque Vocal
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Special offer. Michael Haydn: Requiem Pro defuncto Archiepiscopo Sigismundo & Missa Sancti Hieronymi
Kate Symonds-Joy, James Robinson, Malachy Frame, The Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, Academy of Ancient Music and Matthew Martin, Julia Doyle (soprano), Academy of Ancient Music, Matthew Martin and The Choir of Gonville & Caius College, The Choir of Gonville & Caius College...
This new performance [of the Requiem] is well paced by the conductor, Matthew Martin, though the Academy of Ancient Music's violins could have done with a touch more presence...The Choir of... —
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In Terra Pax
RecommendedA Christmas Anthology
Julia Doyle (soprano), Roderick Williams (baritone) & Mark Williams (organ and piano)
City of London Choir & Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Hilary Davan Wetton
The gem here is Finzi's In terra pax… From late in Finzi's life, it is suffused with English pastoral yearning, and baritone Roderick Williams sings beautifully in the outer sections. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 30th November 2009
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Special offer. Handel: Messiah
Julia Doyle (soprano), Tim Mead (countertenor), Thomas Hobbs (tenor) and Roderick Williams (baritone), RIAS Kammerchor Berlin, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Justin Doyle
Doyle’s direction is assured. In the densest counterpoint, he makes voicing crystal clear...Roderick Williams earns special mention for his thrilling additions to ‘The trumpet shall sound’,... —
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The neglect of Elisabeth Lutyens's music has been one of the more egregious critical errors of the past quarter-century… With 31 tracks this CD highlights Lutyens's gift for building large-ish... —
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Oliver Davis: Blue
Beth & Flo, Oliver Davis, Grace Davidson (soprano), Joshua Davidson, Julia Doyle (soprano), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, The Blue Choir, Paul Bateman
