Andrew Parrott
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Western Wind
RecommendedMusic By John Taverner & Court Music For Henry VIII
Emily Van Evera (soprano), Charles Daniels (tenor)
Taverner Choir & Players, Andrew Parrott
The Western Wynde Mass nicely contrasts with The Tallis Scholars’ recording, being incisive and brisk where Peter Phillips’s reading is smoother and more leisurely. Parrott is perhaps more persuasive... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2016, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Winner - Early Music
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Special offer. Bach, J S: Mass in B minor, BWV232
RecommendedEmma Kirkby (soprano I), Emily Van Evera (soprano II), Panito Iconomou (alto), Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor), David Thomas (bass)
Solisten Des Tölzer Knabenchors, Taverner Consort & Players, Andrew Parrott
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Building a Library, April 2000, First Choice
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Building a Library, May 2010, First Choice
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Building a Library, February 2017, Also Recommended
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JS Bach: Cantatas Nos. 82, 202 & 208
Emma Kirkby (soprano), David Thomas (bass), Jennifer Smith (soprano), Simon Davis (tenor), Michael George (bass)
The Parley of Instruments, The Taverner Players, Andrew Parrott, Roy Goodman
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Monteverdi: L'Orfeo
Charles Daniels (Orfeo), Faye Newton (Euridice), Emily Van Evera (Messaggiera), Clare Wilkinson (Speranza/Proserpina), Curtis Streetman (Caronte), Christopher Purves (Plutone), Anna Dennis (Ninfa), Guy Pelc (Apollo)
Taverner Consort & Players, Andrew Parrott
Daniels is magnificent in the title role - technically brilliant...impassioned...and lyrically supple...The rest of the cast is also good...Faye Newton is a pure and effective Euridice...As... —
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2013, Opera Choice
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Special offer. Tallis: Latin Church Music
RecommendedTaverner Consort & Taverner Choir, Andrew Parrott
[In Spem in alium] Parrott's sure touch tells in the form: the first entry is clear and confident...the first Mexican wave spreads inexorably, the arrival on the second tutti rings out like... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Collection Recommendation
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Building a Library, October 2016, First Choice
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Special offer. Monteverdi: Vespro della beata Vergine (1610) & Selva morale e spirituale
Taverner Consort, Andrew Parrott
The first recording to engage fully with the scholarly debates regarding the form, purpose and pitch of the work, this 1984 version is a comprehensive and radical attempt to reconstruct a festal... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Best-kept Secrets
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Special offer. Handel: Israel in Egypt, HWV54
RecommendedNancy Argenta, Emily Van Evera, Timothy Wilson, Anthony Rolfe, David Thomas, Jeremy White
Taverner Choir & Players, Andrew Parrott
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Building a Library, June 2019, Recommended Recording
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Beethoven - Piano Concerto No. 5 & Choral Fantasia
Ronald Brautigam (piano), Hannah Holgersson (soprano), Marie Olhans (mezzo-soprano), Maria Sanner (alto), Mikael Stenbaek (tenor), Gunnar Birgersson (baritone) & Ove Pettersson (bass)
Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, with Eric Ericson Chamber Choir, Andrew Parrott
The opening of the concerto is excellent: Parrott gets appropriately spacious playing from the orchestra, while the bell-like tone of Brautigam's instrument - a Steinway Model D - helps to prevent... —
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One of the earliest and best Vesper sets, certainly the prettiest-sounding. The quality of singers, the rising early music stars of their age, is unsurpassed. —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Collection Winner
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Special offer. Mozart: Die Verstellte Gärtnerin ('La finta giardiniera')
Sandrine Piau (Violante), Susanne Bernhard (Arminda), Lydia Teuscher (Serpetta), Olivia Vermeulen (Ramiro), Julian Prégardien (Graf Belfiore), Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke (Don Anchise), Michael Kupfer-Radecky (Roberto), Munchner Rundfunkorchester, Andrew Parrott
The sufferings of the disguised Violante are f inely captured by Sandrine Piau, while the complexities of her errant (and at one time violent) lover Belfiore are well realised by Julian Prégardien... —
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Opera, April 2023, Disc of the Month
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