Lotte Betts-Dean
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Brett Dean - Rooms of Elsinore
RecommendedJennifer France; Lotte Betts-Dean; Juho Pohjonen; James Crabb; Volker Hemken; Swedish Chamber Orchestra; Brett Dean
This compelling album presents five works prompted by writing an opera on Shakespeare’s iconic tragedy. Each stands on its own, yet they obliquely inhabit its world….Adroitly partnered by pianist... —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2024, Choral & Song Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Contemporary Music
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2024
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2024
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The Past & I: 100 Years of Thomas Hardy
RecommendedMusic & Arrangements by Arthur Keegan
Lotte Betts-Dean (mezzo), James Girling (guitar), Ligeti Quartet
The Ligeti Quartet ’s performance resonates with commitment and eloquence as Keegan highlights the tensions between man and nature, art and mortality, interlaying texts by Hardy and Philip Larkin.... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 19th July 2024
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024, Shortlisted - New Work (Elegies for Emma)
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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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MacRae wrote the majority of the music on this album especially for Betts-Dean (the daughter of Hamlet composer Brett) after hearing her perform his The Lif of this World a few years ago, and... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, July 2023
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023, Shortlisted - World Premiere Recording (New Work)
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Special offer. Michael Finnissy: Alternative Readings
Marsyas Trio, Lotte Betts-Dean (mezzo-soprano), Joseph Havlat
Anyone nervous of the so-called New Complexity could do far worse than ease into this style via this recording...The performers all give insightful performances, although mezzo Lotte Betts-Dean’s... —
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2024, Chamber Choice
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Greenbaum: Australian Voices – Mondrian Interiors
Lotte Betts-Dean (mezzo-soprano), Jessica Fotinos (harp), Dafydd Camp (cor anglais), Aidan Boase (piano), Christopher Haycroft (bassoon), David Reichelt (oboe), Paul Dean (clarinet)
Australian National Academy Of Music Musicians
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We drift calmly across genres, hardly noticing abrupt shifts in style thanks to the tempered and understated delivery. Betts-Dean's lyrical mezzo floats wistfully above the texture. With a rich... —
