Hi Res Download, Tomkins (composer)
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These works have sometimes been handled as trifles or decorative miniatures, but Iranian-American harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani treats them as profoundly expressive and introspective works.... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2018, Instrumental Choice
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2019, Nominated - Instrumental
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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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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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The singers make a beautifully balanced sound with impressive fluency across each style...there is a pleasing tension between a consort blend and the vital quirkiness of individual voices...Jourdain’s... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2018, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2019, Finalist - Early Music
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Special offer. An English Sett for Trumpet
Jonathan Freeman-Attwood (trumpet) & Daniel-Ben Pienaar (piano)
There’s no doubting the technical prowess of these two crack performers, and it’s hard not to share their guilty delight in this stolen booty: intonation and ensemble are spot-on, rhythms pulse,... —
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The Pillar of the Cloud
Five Centuries of Oxford Anthems
The Choir Of Magdalen College, Oxford, Mark Williams
There’s some wonderfully, unfairly unfashionable repertoire here…Magdalen’s sound has always had an unmannered, forthright quality to it, something Williams celebrates in the jagged, ecstatic... —
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Special offer. On Byrd's Wings
Dorothee Mields (performer), Magdalene Harer (performer), Ryosuke Sakamoto (lute), Boreas Quartett Bremen, Hathor Consort
An immensely rewarding exploration of the richness of English consort music from the Elizabethan and post-Elizabethan periods...the two sopranos and consorts tell a compelling story of invention... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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a varied treasure trove of seldom heard but extremely affecting music, nicely sung and spliced together with some darkly-glittering string In Nomines played by Fretwork...[They] easily persuade... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2012, Editor's Choice
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