Julian Perkins
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Special offer. John Eccles: Semele
RecommendedAnna Dennis (Semele), Richard Burkhard (Jupiter), Helen Charlston (Juno), Aoife Miskelly (Ino), William Wallace (Athamas), Héloïse Bernard (Iris); Academy of Ancient Music Julian Perkins
Cast, band, director and sound are all top-notch, restoring Eccles’s score to its full glory...Thanks to Perkins’s deft casting, each principal’s vocalism and dramatis persona are wonderfully... —
Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2021, Recording of the Month
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Opera, April 2021, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2021, Editor's Choice
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Record Review, 30th January 2021, Record of the Week
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Opera
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Special offer. If the Fates Allow - Music By Purcell and His Contemporaries
Helen Charlston (mezzo-soprano), Sounds Baroque, Julian Perkins
She is someone who acts fully with her vocal armory, and we can see this in the way she does not only project her voice with prettiness and fluency...Helen Charlston is a special singer. The... —
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There are two appealing strengths to this recording. The first is that Grace Davidson and Julian Perkins are eminent and experienced performers who know how to make the most of this repertory.... —
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Special offer. The Spohr Collection: Historical Flutes
David Miller (lute), Reiko Ichise, Ashley Solomon (flute), Julian Perkins
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Romantic Music by American Composers
Giorgio Trione Bartoli, Martina Frezzotti, Emma Abbate, Julian Perkins, Emanuele Torquati (piano), Artem Belogurov, Michele Tozzetti (piano), Enrico Fagnoni, Giovanni Doria Miglietta, Alexander Korsantia
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Perkins gets enormous buy-in from his band, made up of top Early Music instrumentalists. The drama of their drunken slides, caressing sof t lines and rollicking compound rhythms at times wittily... —
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Conversazioni II: Duelling Cantatas
Julian Perkins (harpsichord, director), Anna Dennis (soprano) & Andrew Radley (countertenor)
Sounds Baroque
This is a lovely disc, ingeniously programmed and lovingly performed by some outstanding musicians. —
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Perkins uses a 1764 Kirckman harpsichord from the Royal Academy of Music, and while it can have a muscly tone, his skilful command of texture (along with Nares's) ensures that it never tires... —
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One incomplete (finished by Robert Levin), two complete Mozart Sonatas and one by Clementi, all stylishly played on a Rosenberger fortepiano and Clementi & Co square piano. —
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