Owen Rees
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Contrapunctus really knows what to do with these pieces and from the very first item...the tuning is superb and the ensemble rock solid. Moreover, Owen Rees's interpretations are revelatory... —
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Sunday Times, 2015, Albums of the Year
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2015, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2015, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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The Crown of Life
Leighton, Clarke, Holst, Darke
Jemima Price (soprano), Rhys Williams (tenor), Rudyard Cook (organ), Ben Gilchrist (bass-baritone), Felicity Howard (soprano), Sam Troy (tenor), Molly Skeil (soprano), Anastasia Jones (soprano), Pete Dockrill (vocalist), Sebastian Evans (tenor), Matt Rogers (tenor), Arthur Barton (organ), The Choir...
I'm happy to report that Owen Rees presides over an impeccably poised and outstandingly fervent display, which also features an exemplary contribution from Queen's College Organ Scholar Rudyard... —
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The Sweetest Songs: Music from the Baldwin Partbooks III
Alice Hulett, Ruth Provost, David Gould, Contrapunctus, Owen Rees
They are in cracking form here, with no discernible weak link in the ensemble: honey-toned and purposeful sopranos, assertive countertenors and everything on down to match. —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2021, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Early Music
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The recording opens with Monteverdi’s Cantate Domino. It gets a captivating and sprightly presentation from the choir, accompanied by chamber organ and lute. —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2024, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. That Sweet City
Leighton: Veris gratia and Vaughan Williams: An Oxford Elegy
Rowan Atkinson (narrator), Nick Pritchard (tenor), Britten Sinfonia, Choir of the Queen's College Oxford, Owen Rees
This is a recording of captivating richness, carefully and tenderly executed; I shall undoubtedly want to return to it many times to rediscover the luxuriant vision of two English composers,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2024
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The ‘reconstitution’ of Tallis Libera nos as a brief choral work is very effective and the inclusion of the rich music of the 17th-century recusant Peerson is a welcome revelation… The singing... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Shortlisted - Early Music
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A Ceremony of Carols
Laurence John, Lucy Wakeford (harp), The Choir of the Queen's College Oxford, Owen Rees
Light, agile and bright, The Queen’s Choir are a good advertisement for the traditional Oxbridge sound. Their upper voices – no countertenors here, incidentally – are fresh and agile, youthful... —
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How Are the Mighty Fallen: Choral Music By Giovanni Bononcini
The Choir of Queen's College, Oxford, Elizabeth Nurse (mezzo-soprano), Colin Danskin (tenor), Daniel Tate (bass-baritone), Esther Lay (mezzo-soprano), Helen Charlston (vocalist), Rowan Pierce (soprano), Giles Underwood (bass-baritone), Guy Cutting (tenor), The Choir of the Queen's College Oxford,...
Concise choruses are sung with a sure sense of harmonic shaping and immaculate diction, although Bononcini’s setting concentrates primarily on movements designed for soloists. —
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Paradisi Portas: Music from 17th Century Portugal
Tom Wilkinson (organ)
The Choir of the Queen's College Oxford, Owen Rees
The Choir of Queen's College clearly relish singing the music… Rees is not afraid to have the entire choir sing the chant… and the choral blend is excellent. —
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Bednall: Welcome All Wonders: A Christmas Cantata
The Choir of The Queen's College, Oxford, Owen Rees (director)
Bednall’s work makes a bright, immediate impression, the idiom, accessible without being superficial. —
