Hugh Cutting
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Special offer. Purcell: Dido & Aeneas
RecommendedJoyce DiDonato (Dido), Michael Spyres (Aeneas), Fatma Said (Belinda), Beth Taylor (Sorceress), Hugh Cutting (Spirit), Laurence Kilsby (Sailor), Alena Dantcheva and Anna Piroli (Witches)
Il Pomo d'Oro, Maxim Emelyanychev
DiDonato is magnificent as Dido, fully understanding how badly her story will end in her first aria as Purcell slides from minor to minor, then sumptuously sorrowful in 'When I am laid in Earth',... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th August 2025
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2025, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2025, Recording of the Month
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International Opera Awards, 2025, Shortlisted - Complete Recording
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Nominated - Opera
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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The Times, Best Classical Albums of 2025
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2026, Winner - Opera Recording
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Nei Giardini d'Amore: Baroque Arias For Two Alti
RecommendedCarlo Vistoli, Hugh Cutting (countertenors), Les Arts Florissants, William Christie
Carlo Vistoli brings both pathos and rage to Medea's vehement outpourings...Equally compelling is Hugh Cutting's interpretation of Vivaldi's Cessate, omai cessate. His youthful countertenor... —
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2025, Vocal Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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With his resplendent mezzo-soprano-ish tone quality and ease of vocal production, the much-awarded Hugh Cutting represents a new level in the evolution of the countertenor voice in this debut... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2025, Editor's Choice
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The New York Times, Best Classical Music Albums of 2025
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Pious Anthems and Voluntaries aspires, in Finnissy’s words, ‘to be a work of guts and brains’. It embodies both in spades…Nethsingha and his forces do it proud. Indeed one of their greatest... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2020, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2020, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Contemporary
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Emily Howard: The Anvil
RecommendedKate Royal, Claire Booth (sopranos), Hugh Cutting (countertenor), Christopher Purves (bass-baritone), BBC Philharmonic, BBC Singers, Hallé Choir, Ben Gernon, Vimbayi Kaziboni
it’s an immersive and emotional experience...Visceral and brilliant. —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023, Shortlisted - World Premiere Recording (New Work)
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2025, Shortlisted - Premiere
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Special offer. Benjamin Britten: Canticles
James Way (tenor), Natalie Burch (piano), Lotte Betts-Dean (mezzo), Annemarie Federle (horn), Hugh Cutting (countertenor), Ross Ramgobin (baritone), Alis Huws (harp)
In ‘Canticle I’ the English tenor James Way is generally fierier than Pears, if a little less punctilious in voicing the melismas Britten typically writes into the vocal part...Interpretively... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Shortlist, Song
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Johann Christoph Pepusch: Chandos Anthems
The Girl Choristers of Canterbury Cathedral, The Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen,
Robert Rawson , to whom we owe a debt of gratitude for his rehabilitation of an unjustly overlooked composer, directs with both style and affection. —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2024, Editor's Choice
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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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Special offer. Purcell: Birthday Odes for Queen Mary
Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Emily Owen (soprano), Iestyn Davies (counter-tenor), Hugh Cutting (counter-tenor), Charles Daniels (tenor), David de Winter (tenor), Matthew Brook (bass-baritone), Edward Grint (bass-baritone), The King's Consort, Robert King
‘Arise My Muse’ (1690) is performed from a new, clearer edition which still allows accomplished singers like Charles Daniels and Iestyn Davies to fashion the melodic lines brilliantly with individuality... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Choral
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The Art of Obligato
Davina Clarke, Tom Foster (harpsichord), Nick Pritchard (tenor), Hugh Cutting, Kati Debretzeni (violin)
Clarke’s enthusiasm and appreciation for the art of obbligato playing grew out of her experience performing with the English Baroque Soloists. No mere accompanist or indeed duettist, Clarke... —
