Briggs, Kerensa
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This debut solo album brilliantly played by the rising young organist Anna Lapwood should certainly engage organ aficionados, especially fans of the grand Harrison & Harrison instrument in Ely... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Finalist - Spatial Audio
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Nightfall
Andrea Haines (soprano), Molly Noon (soprano), Katie Jeffries-Harris (alto), Barnaby Smith (alto), Blake Morgan (tenor), Euan Williamson (tenor), Christopher Moore (baritone), Dominic Carver (bass), Thomas Gould (violin), Emma Denton (cello), Sam Becker (doublebass), MaryRuth Miller (soprano), Lara...
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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 exquisitely pure-toned performance α of Hildegard von Bingen's O viridissima, Virga at the outset makes clear that this will be a special recital...Christopher Lowrey elicits expressively... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Issue 2025, Christmas Choice
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A Pembroke Christmas
Emma Johnson (clarinet), Wallis Power, The Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge, The Pembroke College Girls' Choir, Anna Lapwood
Highlights include a numinous take on MacMillan’s O Radiant Dawn, Ailsa McTernan’s soaring solo in Patricia Van Ness’s ‘Archangelus’ and a performance of Kerensa Briggs’s A Tender Shoot, which... —
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All Things Are Quite Silent
The Pembroke College Girls’ Choir, The Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge, The Pembroke College Girls' Choir, Anna Lapwood
Rheinberger’s Abendlied is delivered with sumptuous, all-embracing delectation...At a single sitting, though, across the disc the choirs’ biggest asset – a malleable, velvety smoothness – turns... —
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The Dawn of Grace
Christmas Works by Women Composers
Luca Morgante, Somerville College Choir, Oxford, Will Dawes
Innovatively programmed, and sung with an uplifting freshness and alacrity, this is simply irresistible. —
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2022, Christmas Choice
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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,’... —
