Laurence Cummings
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Victorious Love - Songs by Henry Purcell
RecommendedCarolyn Sampson (soprano), Laurence Cummings (harpsichord & spinet), Elizabeth Kenny (archlute / theorbo), Anne-Marie Lasla (bass viol), Sarah Sexton (violin I), Andrea Morris (violin II) & Jane Rogers (viola)
Her tone is extraordinarily beautiful: natural, warm and unforced, with almost superhuman vocal athleticism —
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Building a Library, February 2014, Top Recital Recommendation
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2007, Editor's Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 6 & 8
Academy of Ancient Music, Robert Levin (fortepiano), Bojan Čičić (violin), Ya-Fei Chuang (fortepiano)
Laurence Cummings
The performance is constantly alive, alert and superbly done...If the sound is one delight, others include the deft playing , sprightly tempos, and dynamics that convey drama without ever being... —
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2024, Concerto Choice
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Special offer. Purcell - Full Anthems & Organ Music
Music on the Death of Queen Mary
Andrew Carwood (tenor), Laurence Cummings (organ), Michael McCarthy (bass)
Oxford Camerata, Jeremy Summerly
I would say that any disc which offered such a 24-carat Purcell selection in performances even half as good as these would be hard to resist. —
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Handel - Gloria - Dixit Dominus
RecommendedEmma Kirkby (soprano), Hillevi Martinpelto (soprano), Anne Sofie Von Otter (alto)
Royal Academy of Music Baroque Orchestra, Stockholm Bach Choir, Drottingholm Baroque Ensemble, Laurence Cummings, Anders Ohrwall
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Presto Recording of the Week, 17th November 2008
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2001, Editor's Choice
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Divine Impresario
Nicolini On Stage
Randall Scotting (countertenor), Mary Bevan (soprano), Academy of Ancient Music, Laurence Cummings
Throughout this album Scotting is at times demanding, impatient, dramatic and flamboyant, as one would expect from roles written for Nicolini, but always poised and richly toned...But this is... —
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Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos 1-3 & 5 & Church Sonata No. 17
Robert Levin (organ), Academy of Ancient Music, Laurence Cummings
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Concerto
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Infinite Refrain: Music of Love’s Refuge
RecommendedRandall Scotting (counter-tenor), Jorge Navarro Colorado (tenor), Academy of Ancient Music, Laurence Cummings
Scotting borrows your heart in Monteverdi’s ‘Con che soavità’ when a lover asks how can one speak and kiss at the same time, while conductor Laurence Cummings and the Academy of Ancient Music... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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Special offer. Thomas Tomkins: Choral and Organ Works
Laurence Cummings (organ)
Oxford Camerata, Jeremy Summerly
Much of the music on this excellent recording was composed during Tomkins's final decade, before his death in 1656 in relative obscurity... At all times, the Oxford Camerata, led by Jeremy Summerly,... —
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Thomas Tallis - Complete Works Volume 9
Instrumental Music and Songs
Andrew Benson-Williams (organ), Laurence Cummings (virginals), Lynda Sayce (lute), Stephen Taylor (counter tenor)
Charivari Agréable, Chapelle du Roi, Alistair Dixon
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2004, Editor's Choice
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The muscular athleticism of his singing on this long-overdue debut solo album comes across just as strongly without his compelling stage-presence: the moustache-twirling virtuosity of villains... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2020
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