Vocal, Frances-Hoad (composer)
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This debut solo album brilliantly played by the rising young organist Anna Lapwood should certainly engage organ aficionados, especially fans of the grand Harrison & Harrison instrument in Ely... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Finalist - Spatial Audio
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this celebration of song is infused with heartfelt joy. —
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Finalist - Song
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the result is coherently put together, with Hughes's resourceful vocal imagination and use of tone, plus the subtlety and careful placement of her decorations, drawing the ear again and again. —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2026, Editor's Choice
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It’s an eclectic mix that combines nostalgia with a modern, shuffle-play sense of adventure. As Cheryl Frances-Hoad’s Bloom finds luminosity in the changing seasons, Huw Watkins’s Arietta suspends... —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2021, Chamber Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2022, Winner - Premiere
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Watkins’s cycle shares Britten’s ability to meld text and musical gesture with an acuity seemingly effortless, almost plucked ready-formed out of the air...An exquisite release touched with... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2022
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2023, Recording of the Month
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Sounds and Sweet Airs - A Shakespeare Songbook
Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Roderick Williams (baritone), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Sampson’s vocal security throughout the registers, clear diction, and patrician phrasing all testify to a complete artist. And Sampson proves every bit as much at home in the modernist works... —
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Un lieu à soi
Lucile Richardot (vocalist), Alexis Gournel (soloist), Adam Laloum (soloist, piano), Clara Izambert-Jarry (soloist), Maïlys de Villoutreys (vocalist), Frank Bridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Anaïs Bertrand (vocalist), Hélène Desaint (soloist), Mary Dering, Julie Dessaint (soloist, viola dagamba), Ronan...
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You promised me everything
Vocal & choral works by Cheryl Frances-Hoad
Jennifer Johnston (mezzo soprano), Joseph Middleton, Alisdair Hogarth (piano)
Someone should commission a music theatre piece from Cheryl Frances Hoad: this disc reveals a dramatic instinct straining at the leash....Jennifer Johnston is a superb advocate, the glossy depth... —
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This lovely disc marks the decisive arrival of a fine young recitalist...all [are] sung by MacPhie with haunting sensitivity and emotional engagement. Vividly stylish and responsive accompaniment... —
