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Innocence: Echo Vocal Ensemble
Ben Munden (tenor), Anna Semple (contralto), Hilary Cronin (soprano), Margaret Lingas (soprano), Echo Vocal Ensemble, Sarah Latto
Here is a deeply satisfying, centuries-spanning, thought-provoking debut album by the fine choral ensemble Echo...The highlight of the album is Howard Skempton’s luminous Yeats setting ‘He wishes... —
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2024, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2024
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2025, Shortlisted - Premiere
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The famed King’s Singers attention to pin-point pitching, slick ensemble, and deft balances between the voices are present in abundance. The two Beatles arrangements are particularly successful…The... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2017, Editor's Choice
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Grammy Awards, 61st Awards (2019), Nominee - Classical Compendium
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Altstaedt and pianist-conductor Emelyanychev have wonderful musical chemistry in this sophisticated album of 1960s compositions..Unreservedly recommended. —
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The Music Never Ends
Vasari Singers, Gareth Giles (piano), Gareth Huw Davies (double bass), Jeremy Backhouse
The tuning is precise, no matter how involved the harmonic progressions, and choir sets out to characterise the contrasting songs, from the languid richness of Ward Swingle’s Romance, with... —
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The result is musically satisfying and rather touching, and Johnston lends her warm, communicative mezzo to a range of idioms…The most intriguing parts of the disc are the new works; no fewer... —
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Rick Wakeman - Piano Odyssey
Rick Wakeman (piano), Brian May (guitar), The Orion Strings, English Chamber Choir, Guy Protheroe
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Luciano Berio - Transformation
Sophia Burgos (soprano), Benjamin Appl (baritone), Daniel Ottensamer (clarinet), Sinfonieorchester Basel, Ivor Bolton
It’s a heterogeneous selection, ranging from a relatively straight realisation of the final, unfinished Contrapunctus from Bach’s Art of Fugue, to baroque treatments of four Beatles numbers...It... —
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Conductor of the Year
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What can a cellist achieve alone? A polyphonic, technicolour panorama in Christian-Pierre La Marca’s idiosyncratic tour through the distant and immediate musical past...Stand-out among the performances... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Concept Album of the Year
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A Dies Irae is an apt place for Prohaska to begin her musically wide-ranging exploration of ‘life in death’, and the gloom is leavened by lightness elsewhere. There are early musical delights,... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2022
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