Berkeley, M
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Special offer. Michael Berkeley: Collaborations
RecommendedClare Hammond (piano), Madeleine Mitchell (violin), Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord), Alice Coote (mezzo), Julius Drake (piano), Robert Plane (clarinet), Rachel Roberts (viola), Chris Hopkins (piano), BBC Singers, Joshua Ryan (organ), Neil Tennant (vocals), David Gilmour (vocals/guitar), Owain Park
Here’s a marvellously stylish showcase for some eclectic and characteristically communicative repertoire by the seemingly indefatigable Michael Berkeley. —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2024
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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The NMC Songbook
RecommendedSopranos - Claire Booth, Ailish Tynan, Elizabeth Atherton
Mezzo-sopranos - Susan Bickley, Loré Lixenberg, Jean Rigby
Countertenors - James Bowman, Michael Chance, Andrew Watts
Tenors - Andrew Kennedy, Daniel Norman, Benjamin Hulett
Baritones - Stefan Loges, Roderick Williams,...
…anyone listening to these discs will find many things to savour… It is, inevitably an eclectic mix, but, as in any well-planned song recital, the progressions and juxtapositions are continually... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th April 2009
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Winner - Contemporary
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100 Years of Nine Lessons & Carols
RecommendedKing’s College Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury,Sir David Willcocks, Sir Philip Ledger
The opening track from 1958 sets the basic tone: the singing’s precise, sunny and rather dainty. Yet extra gusto soon arrives, and the modern carols Cleobury commissioned certainly stop tradition... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 30th November 2018
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Special offer. Berkeley, M: For You
Alan Opie (Charles), Christopher Lemmings (Robin), Rachel Nicholls (Joan), Helen Williams (Antonia), Jeremy Huw Williams (Simon) & Allison Cook (Maria)
Music Theatre Wales, Michael Rafferty
...it bristles with wit and lyricism, while giving other composers and librettists a lesson in how to drape operatic tradition in modern clothes....Alan Opie’s Charles makes a strong centrepiece,... —
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The Berkeley Edition, Volume 5
Howard Shelley (piano), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (contralto), Celia Craig (cor anglais), Steven Burnard (viola)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Richard Hickox
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2005, Editor's Choice
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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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The Carducci give superbly vivid and thoroughly prepared performances that catch the varied expressive characters of each work, combining with Nicholas Daniel to great effect. Signum's sound... —
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Not just a collection of clarinet works, but a well-devised retrospective of British music over three decades. Bennett's virtuoso, theatrical Scena III and Wood's engrossing, symphonic Paraphrase,... —
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The English Oboe: Rediscovered
James Turnbull (oboe), Matthew Featherstone (flute), Dan Shilladay (viola) & Elizabeth Burgess (piano)
This is a sometimes dizzying tour of the English oboe repertoire, hopping in turn from rural lyricism to hard-edged modernity, but there is no disputing the technical facility of James Turnbull... —
