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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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These formidable chamber musicians range effortlessly through the centuries and around the globe, recognising no stylistic boundaries. Their mesmerising soundworld is supported by a glowing,... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2022, Editor's Choice
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All too often, recording projects proclaim their 'diverse' programming but are tokenistic in practice. It is refreshing to encounter a disc put together with integrity and care, and performed... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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The Tallis is performed with a suitably gorgeous sound by ORA, even if this listener yearned for more sonic bite at times, but the choir soars in the disc’s new commissions. Alongside richly... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2017
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2018, Winner - Ensemble (choral)
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This is the understated Oxford-based composer Judith Ward’s welldeserved moment in the spotlight: she features on more than half the tracks in this recording, including her ‘Mass for St Mark,’... —
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An enjoyable, if curious, collection. The abundant riches of choral music by living British composers are mined for the latest album from The Purcell Singers. —
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the jutting vocal fanfares of [Weir's] Ave Regina caelorum set a brightly celebratory atmosphere at the disc's beginning...The seven-part writing of Hannah Kendall's numinous Regina caeli is... —
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Christmas Daybreak
Daniel Hoy (vocals), Steven Bradshaw (vocals), Karen Blanchard (vocals), Ryan Fleming (vocals), Karen Wapner (vocals), Scott Dettra (organ), Rebecca Siler (vocals), Levi Hernandez (vocals), Veronica Chapman-Smith (vocals), Maren Montalbano-Brehm (vocals), Jeff Dinsmore (vocals), Chris Hodges (vocals)
Crossing,...
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