Vocal, Tippett (composer)
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2005, Editor's Choice
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Shakespeare Songs
RecommendedIan Bostridge (tenor), Antonio Pappano (piano), Elizabeth Kenny (lute), Adam Walker (flute), Lawrence Power (viola), Michael Collins (clarinet)
Five songs from Finzi’s incomparable Let us Garlands Bring see the tenor’s head voice floating sympathetically through the melismatic vowels and ever-shifting metres of Finzi’s most sensitive... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2016, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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ECHO Klassik Awards, 2017, Winner
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Grammy Awards, 59th Awards (2016), Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Come to Me in My Dreams
120 years of songs from the RCM
Sarah Connolly (mezzo), Joseph Middleton (piano)
A varied collection that offers more than just vocal bonbons…Connolly and Middleton execute the complex phrasing [of A Charm of Lullabies] with a sense of ensemble for which they are revered. —
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Presto Editor's Choice, July 2018
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2018, Editor's Choice
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The award-winning group Voces 8 is well-known for its wide-ranging programmes and accomplished technical control...In Monteverdi's Cantate Dominum (this is his 1620 setting, not the 1615 one)... —
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British Composers: A Celebration
RecommendedRichard Rodney Bennett (piano), Ian Hare (piano), Robert Tear (vocals), Sir Andrew Davis (piano), Bruce Russell (vocals), Richard Lewis (vocals), Monica Sinclair (vocals), Lewis Thomas (vocals), Geoffrey Walls (baritone), John Hauxwell (bass-baritone), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Wilfred Brown...
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Building a Library, June 2018, Also Recommended
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Unveiled: Britten, Tippett, Gipps, Browne, Thomas
Elgan Llŷr Thomas (tenor), Iain Burnside (piano), Craig Ogden (guitar)
Hearing Britten's Michelangelo Sonnets in Jeremy Sams's direct English translations is quite a revelation, underlining the fact that this is a cycle about a 'love that dare not speak its name'... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2023
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Remember Your Lovers
Songs by Tippett, Britten, Purcell & Pelham Humfrey
John Mark Ainsley (tenor) & Iain Burnside (piano)
John Mark Ainsley brings the full range of his formidable musicianship to these hard-wrought but haunting masterpieces. His ringing high register and almost miraculously expressive pianissimo... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2006, Editor's Choice
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Liquid Gold; the real thing —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2007, Editor's Choice
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British Music Collection - Michael Tippett
György Pauk, Nobuko Imai, Ralph Kirshbaum, Faye Robinson
London Symphony Orchestra, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Philip Jones Brass Ensemble, Schola Cantorum of Oxford, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis, Sir Neville Marriner, Howard Snell, Nicholas Cleobury, Sir Georg Solti
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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... —
