LeFanu
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The third album from the Hermes Experiment again shows what a liberating force in contemporary music this ensemble have become… The question is no longer why composers would choose to write... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2025, Concept Album
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2025
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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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Special offer. Nicola Lefanu: The Crimson Bird
RecommendedBBC Symphony Orchestra, RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra
That LeFanu possesses an ear for finesse is evident from The Hidden Landscape (1973), with its oblique yet purposeful trajectory from the ominous, even confrontational to a gauntly imposing... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Committed playing throughout by the Schubert Ensemble… those who've already acquired the earlier volume need not hesitate: an ideal starting-point to experience the rewards of Chamber Music... —
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The Path Above the Dunes: Chamber music by Nicola LeFanu
Gemini, Caroline Balding, Sophie Harris, Elsa Bradley, Catriona Scott, Ileana Ruhemann, Aleksander Szram, Joby Burgess (percussion), Clara Barbier Serrano, Ian Mitchell
Gemini’s playing is admirable individually and collectively throughout, abetted by sound of unsparing focus, with detailed notes by the composer and Ian Mitchell. —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2024, Editor's Choice
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An intriguing mix of four works from the middle generation of British composers, two of which really stand out: Roger Marsh's Canto and Anthony Gilbert's Palace of the Winds. —
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METIER is devoted not only to independent-minded British composers but performers too. Here the impressive soprano Alison Smart, of the BBC Singers, makes her recorded debut as a recitalist,... —
