Orchestral, Eccles, J (composer)
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Charlston's mezzo is as dark and full-bodied as a good claret, and she offers highly expressive readings of the texts, plumbing their depths with cut-glass diction and a glorious range of colours... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2022
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2022, Choral & Song Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Winner - Vocal
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Winners, Concept Album of the Year
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If the Fates Allow - Music By Purcell and His Contemporaries
Helen Charlston (mezzo-soprano), Sounds Baroque, Julian Perkins
She is someone who acts fully with her vocal armory, and we can see this in the way she does not only project her voice with prettiness and fluency...Helen Charlston is a special singer. The... —
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D’Oustrac is dazzling across these various personae, to which she brings not only luscious vocalism but also a blistering intensity. No less impressive is the Ensemble Amarillis…for zest and... —
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2020, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2020, Editor's Choice
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This is a terrific collection, funny, moving and exciting by turns, a shoo-in for my end-of-year ‘Best of 2023’ list —
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Purcell: Tyrannic Love
Ensemble Les Surprises, Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas, Eugénie Lefebvre, Etienne Bazola (baritone)
The theme is love, but there’s nothing coy or sugary about either music or performances that embrace extremes of emotion and expression...Much of this is theatre music, and in the absence of... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2021, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Rule Britannia
John Wallace (trumpet), with Edmund Barham (tenor)
English String Orchestra, Leeds Festival Chorus, William Boughton
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The English Orpheus 50 - Orpheus with his Lute
Music for Shakespeare from Purcell to Arne
Catherine Bott (soprano), Rachel Brown (flute)
The Parley of Instruments, Peter Holman
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There are two appealing strengths to this recording. The first is that Grace Davidson and Julian Perkins are eminent and experienced performers who know how to make the most of this repertory.... —
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Jacques Thibaud -The Complete Solo Recordings 1929-36
Jacques Thibaud (violin), Tasso Janopoulo, Georges de Lausnay & Alfred Cortot (piano)
Suisse Romande Orchestra, Ansermet
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250 Years of English Song (2CD)
Charles Brett, Neil Jenkins (tenor), Trevor Jones, Wendy Eathorne, Polly Waterfield, Ian Grammie, Catherine Mackintosh, Jane Ryan, Ian Gammie, Colin Tilney (early keyboard instruments), Philip Langridge (tenor), Adam Skeaping, Benjamin Luxon (baritone), Robert Lloyd (bass), Anthony Lewis, Norma Burrowes...
