CD, Morley (composer)
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New. Troubled Times: Music and Espionage in Renaissance England
The Queen's Six, Rose Consort of Viols
The Queen's Six bring to this repertoire the seamless blend you'd expect from singers who share not merely a concert platform but a postcode within Windsor Castle's walls. Indeed, their daily... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Editor's Choice
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The line-up might play safe, but it’s all exquisitely done, collegiate smoothness and blend to the fore. And what blend! The harmonic voicing is immaculate yet always sensitive to the imperatives... —
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Shakespeare Songs
RecommendedIan Bostridge (tenor), Antonio Pappano (piano), Elizabeth Kenny (lute), Adam Walker (flute), Lawrence Power (viola), Michael Collins (clarinet)
Five songs from Finzi’s incomparable Let us Garlands Bring see the tenor’s head voice floating sympathetically through the melismatic vowels and ever-shifting metres of Finzi’s most sensitive... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2016, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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ECHO Klassik Awards, 2017, Winner
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Grammy Awards, 59th Awards (2016), Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Renaissance Lute Music
Recommendedfeaturing works by Dowland / Ballard / Capirola / Cutting / Molinaro
Konrad Ragossnig (lute)
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Special offer. English Royal Funeral Music
RecommendedLes Trompettes des Plaisirs, Lingua Franca & Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier
one might call it a classically 'English' choral sound - but any suspicions of coolness are easily dispelled by the commitment shown to the meaning of both music and text...Once again, Vox Luminis... —
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Building a Library, April 2015, First Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2013, Editor's Choice
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In Chains of Gold: The English Pre-Restoration Verse Anthem Vol. 2
RecommendedWilliam Byrd to Edmund Hooper: Psalms and Royal Anthems
Magdalena Consort, Fretwork, His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts, with Silas Wollston (organ)
The underpinning scholarship doesn’t just run to artful reconstructions, teasing missing viol parts out of extant organ sources…The grainy, dark hues of Fretwork’s viols lend extra introductory... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th June 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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The NMC Songbook
RecommendedSopranos - Claire Booth, Ailish Tynan, Elizabeth Atherton
Mezzo-sopranos - Susan Bickley, Loré Lixenberg, Jean Rigby
Countertenors - James Bowman, Michael Chance, Andrew Watts
Tenors - Andrew Kennedy, Daniel Norman, Benjamin Hulett
Baritones - Stefan Loges, Roderick Williams,...
…anyone listening to these discs will find many things to savour… It is, inevitably an eclectic mix, but, as in any well-planned song recital, the progressions and juxtapositions are continually... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th April 2009
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Winner - Contemporary
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Pavans and Fantasies from the Age of Dowland
RecommendedJohn Holloway (violin, viola), Monika Baer (violin, Renate Steinmann (violin), Susanna Hefti (viola), Martin Zeller (bass violin)
Dowland himself was prepared to countenance performances with violin consort. This is the less familiar route Holloway and his colleagues have chosen, deploying four violas atop a bass violin...The... —
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Building a Library, October 2017, Also Recommended
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International Classical Music Awards, 2015, Winner - Baroque Instrumental
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Already in Gibbons’s Drop, Drop, Slow, Tears there are numerous indications of the elevated artistry of Paul McCreesh and the 22 singers of his Gabrieli Consort. —
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2012, Disc of the month
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