Chamber, Locke (composer)
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The ensemble is a coterie of some of the finest early musicians on the scene today – friends who evidently relish the art of musical conversation, the guiding ethos of the English consort tradition. —
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2024, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 24th May 2024
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2024, Chamber Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
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It is as fresh and exciting as anything I've heard in recent years...The architectural shaping, dynamic vitality and sheer passion of the Biber performances lifts them right to the top of their... —
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Fretwork’s approach is generally weightier and more introspective [than Phantasm's] – a mood enhanced by Signum’s closer recorded balance. Fretwork captures the brooding quality of the minor-mode... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 14th January 2022
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2022
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The Ruisis unify the programme with gorgeous, historically informed playing – delicately shaded and minimally vibrated, yet warm and welcoming. The new commission, Oliver Leith’s Big House,... —
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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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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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Special offer. Matthew Locke - ‘The Broken Consort’
The Parley of Instruments, Peter Holman (director)
Locke's love of the theatre is evident in these 'broken' consorts, with their rhetorical effects and dance-inspired rhythms. The dark-hued duos provide moments of reflection and tonal contrast.... —
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Their playing is clean, polished, razor sharp, yet there’s nothing sterile about these performances, which bristle with energy, dynamic contrasts and dramatic gestures… Above all, there’s a... —
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Diapason d’Or, March 2020, Découverte
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