Pott
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This latest recording once again showcases his singers' effortless versatility both as choristers and soloists...One of Tenebrae's great strengths is to bring both dignity and panache to these... —
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2025, August 2025
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2026, Winner - Choral
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The centrepiece is a stunning performance of Peteris Vasks’s Plainscapes, three wordless linked movements…infused with a strong Pärtian flavour, with important roles for violin and cello, plated... —
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Listening straight through this disc is a moving experience, for Layton has chosen a notable list of anthems. Highly recommended. —
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Special offer. Francis Pott: At First Light; Word
Joseph Spooner (cello), Christian Wilson (organ), Commotio, Matthew Berry
Every now and then you hear a new work and feel that excitement, the knowledge that here is a piece that is going to become part of the landscape. Rooted in tradition but with a voice of its... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2020, Editor's Choice
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Bob Chilcott: Canticles of Light
Dagmara Kołodziej-Gorczyczyńska, Aleksandra Turalska, Sebastian Mach, National Forum Of Music Choir, Instrumentalists of the Wrocław Philharmonic, Agnieszka Franków-Żelazny
Chilcott’s Move him into the sun dates from 2018, and commemorates the centenary of war poet Wilfred Owen’s death. Tenor Sebastian Mach’s plangent solo in ‘Apologia pro Poemate meo’ is a highlight... —
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Composer of the Year
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Contemporary Music
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a Christmas issue which is genuinely challenging and different…Martin’s music evokes in an extraordinary suggestive manner the theological paradox buried within the Eden story… The Gabrieli’s... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Disc of the month
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The choir's musicianship is superb and its vocal balance perfectly calibrated; the textures vibrant and the sensuous beauty of the John's sound is expertly captured by Signum. New Millennium... —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2023, Choral & Song Choice
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Upheld by Stillness
RecommendedRenaissance gems and their reflections - Volume 1: Byrd
ORA, Suzi Digby (artistic director and conductor)
ORA is made up of some of the UK’s finest consort singers, sitting to my ears somewhere between The Sixteen and Tenebrae…The melancholy severity of Byrd’s original is beautifully measured, ORA... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th February 2016
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This disc is the result of an outpouring of love and, naturally, of grief, brought together in a splendid collection that stands as a celebration of David [Trendell’s] life as much as a memorial…[the... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2016, Editor's Choice
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Into This World, This Day Did Come
RecommendedCarols Contemporary & Medieval
Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, Geoffrey Webber
There are many highlights but Williams Sweeney's Scots dialect setting 'The Innumerable Christ' stands out for its daring other-worldliness, as do Stuart MacRae's bold re-imagining of 'Adam... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 30th November 2009
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