CD, Gjeilo (composer)
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Pitch-perfect harmonies, in dreamily sumptuous sonics. —
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A new piece by Lapwood herself, Arise, Shine, opens the album, showcasing the Pembroke Chapel Choir's easeful unanimity of diction, and its warmly blended tonal profile. —
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Ola Gjeilo: Voices Piano Strings
Ola Gjeilo (piano), Ola Gjeilo (piano). Thomas Gould (violin), Ciaran McCabe (violin), Jon Thorne (viola), Matthew Sharp
Thomas Gould (violin)
Ben Hancox (violin), Hannah Dawson (violin), Simone van der Giessen (viola), Matthew
Sharp (cello)
Voces 8, Tenebrae, Chamber Orchestra...
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‘Firedove’ – nice title – is an imaginative bran tub of a programme with some outstanding tracks and performances but I wonder if it doesn’t fall between several stools. —
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One doesn’t often find Thomas Tallis, Edward Elgar and John Tavener sandwiching Massive Attack, but the lovely Teardrop works astonishingly well in this mixed programme devoted to the concept... —
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The singing is beautifully blended, the parts sensitively balanced, the absence of spurious vibrato a constant pleasure. Typically outstanding Hyperion sound caps this warmly recommendable issue. —
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A Pembroke Christmas
Emma Johnson (clarinet), Wallis Power, The Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge, The Pembroke College Girls' Choir, Anna Lapwood
Highlights include a numinous take on MacMillan’s O Radiant Dawn, Ailsa McTernan’s soaring solo in Patricia Van Ness’s ‘Archangelus’ and a performance of Kerensa Briggs’s A Tender Shoot, which... —
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