Monk, M
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The album brings together ten, seemingly disparate composers between whom Shibe traces a journey that’s as unsettling as it is exquisite and profoundly searching, steeped in a kind of weightless... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2022
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Winner - Solo Instrumental
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Finalists, Shortlisted - Instrumental
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Innocence: Echo Vocal Ensemble
Ben Munden (tenor), Anna Semple (contralto), Hilary Cronin (soprano), Margaret Lingas (soprano), Echo Vocal Ensemble, Sarah Latto
Here is a deeply satisfying, centuries-spanning, thought-provoking debut album by the fine choral ensemble Echo...The highlight of the album is Howard Skempton’s luminous Yeats setting ‘He wishes... —
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2024, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2024
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2025, Shortlisted - Premiere
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The shifts from unsettling ellis island Kurtág to the comforting, tonal minimalism of Monk and Mingus effectively illustrate a profound journey but it's in the Bartók that Hamos really flies,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2025, Editor's Choice
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Thoughtfully constructed and stylistically wide-ranging, the album opens with Meredith Monk’s miniature, poignant Early Morning Melody, followed by Dappled Light, a sonorous, rippling new work... —
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There’s one substantial work here, the highlight of the whole programme: Giles Swayne’s Riffraff (1983), composed for the organ of St Alban’s Cathedral, where it is recorded. Making arresting... —
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the American pianist takes us on a chronological journey that zips around the world, stitching together contrasting styles into an enjoyable musical patchwork. The dance theme is lightly worn,... —
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The collection of minimalist works by John Corigliano, Bryce Dessner, EsaPekka Salonen, Philip Glass, Meredith Monk and Fain himself are persuasively played, with a fittingly anxious vibrato.... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2026, Editor's Choice
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Thoughtfully constructed and stylistically wide-ranging, the album opens with Meredith Monk’s miniature, poignant Early Morning Melody, followed by Dappled Light, a sonorous, rippling new work... —
Purchase product
2 Vinyl Records
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Diapason d'Or, September 2021, Nouveauté
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