Simon-Pierre Bestion
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The imaginative creation by Simon-Pierre Bestion’s ensemble, La Tempête, is so stirring, heart-tugging and well recorded that I don’t know whether to sink to my knees in prayer or erupt into... —
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As an album it radiates an inventive glee similar to Uri Caine’s Goldberg Variations (Winter & Winter, 10/00). Consider the Ikea-esque build-your-own-motet approach of Super flumina Babylonis. —
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Shortlist, Early Music
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Bestion’s singers are very flexible, and frequently superb...they are equal to Scelsi’s quartertones; and they can sing ‘straight’ when needed. These stylistic shifts are not jarring. —
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Presto Editor's Choice, January 2022
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Choral blend and enunciation are immaculate, at their very best in Martin's Songs of Ariel…it's particularly good to see 'Let mine eyes run down with tears' among the more familiar numbers -... —
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the All-Night Vigil appears here a denuded museum artefact, displayed alongside a distantly related musical tradition that ’s presented in a more vibrant and authentic style. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Choral Music
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The performance by La poème harmonique is excellent. The instrumental ensemble is tightly controlled by conductor Vincent Dumestre, and the individual styles of each of the pieces emerges with... —
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It’s certainly not the marble-fronted, coolly classical city so many accounts of this work would suggest. La Tempête’s Venice is all cosmopolitan collisions, the crossroads of Europe – busy,... —
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Concept aside, the performance is mostly very well refined, with a bright, fervent choral sound. A finely balanced quartet of soloists brings poise and panache to the Dvořák, with some superb... —
