Rowarth
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Isolation Songbook
RecommendedHelen Charlston (mezzo-soprano), Michael Craddock (baritone), Alexander Soares (piano)
The results are varied, from comic miniatures to distilled dramas and contemplative outpourings, but together add up to a recital that’s hard to resist, at once fresh and profoundly familiar. —
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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The pulsing, fidgety rhythms of Adrian Peacock’s ‘Venite, Gaudete!’ mark the ORA Singers out as a chamber choir of high accomplishment. The technical accuracy is exceptional and the sound smoothly... —
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Time and its Passing
Where except in the present can the eternal be met? C. S. Lewis
Rodolfus, Ralph Allwood
The fresh, unforced quality of these young singers brings a pleasant friction to grave-facing works like Gibbons's What is our life? and Howells's Even such is time, and comes into its own in... —
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The democratic, conductor-less Fieri Consort has found profound direction in this debut recording…Exquisite blend quickly emerges as a touchstone for the intense programme…The startling chromaticism... —
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2018, Choral & Song
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The performances are precise in attack and pitching, and sensitively balanced; the overall sound is lovely, except that the sweetness of the high soprano line soon becomes cloying. —
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