Berkeley Ensemble
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Stabat Mater: Sacred Choral Music by Lennox and Michael Berkeley
The Marian Consort, Berkeley Ensemble, David Wordsworth
The Marian Consort’s background in early music pays dividends in their superb precision of pitch, impeccable rhythmic placing and beautiful diction…the lush harmonies that open [Judica me] are... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Shortlisted - Choral
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There’s a lightness to this performance, but also firm sonority at the outset, with an organ-like quality in the underlying harmonies. Balance and warmth of texture are strengths throughout,... —
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The enterprising Berkeley Ensemble has set up ‘The New Cobbett Prize or Chamber Music’, inspired by Walter Wilson Cobbett’s early 20th-century original. Here are the first fruits, in meticulous... —
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Special offer. Dame Ethel Smyth: Songs and Ballads
Lucy Stevens (contralto), Elizabeth Marcus (piano), Berkeley Ensemble, Odaline de la Martinez
Smyth produced many songs that could hold their own in any Lieder recital…The crowning glory of this collection, nevertheless, is the opening work, the Four Songs for voice and chamber orchestra... —
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Special offer. Kevin Raftery: Second Child
Clare Hammond (piano), Sophie Mather (violin), Francesca Barritt (violin), Marmen Quartet, Exaudi Vocal Ensemble, Berkeley Ensemble, James Weeks, Paul Cott
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The three performers are ideally balanced and their ensemble is impeccable —
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Magpie: Solo & Chamber Works by Kevin Raftery
Richard Benjafield, Berkeley Ensemble (chamber ensemble), Anneke Hodnett, Elizabeth Green, Neil Heyde
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Winter Fragments
Chamber Music by Michael Berkeley
Fleur Barron (mezzo)
Berkeley Ensemble, Dominic Grier
The chamber context provides such an effective vehicle for one of his music’s most distinctive features – the often dichotomous interplay between the individual and the group…The Berkeley Ensemble,... —
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Beauty Veil'd
Berkeley Ensemble, Tom Wraith (cello), Sophie McQueen (violin), Simon Callaghan (piano)
All the featured composers resisted new music 'orthodoxies', instead maintaining a commitment to lyricism and expressive colour...The Berkeley Ensemble shows archaeological skill and expressive... —
