Choral, Messiaen (composer)
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The album brings together ten, seemingly disparate composers between whom Shibe traces a journey that’s as unsettling as it is exquisite and profoundly searching, steeped in a kind of weightless... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2022
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Winner - Solo Instrumental
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Finalists, Shortlisted - Instrumental
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In short, this highly recommendable collection represents a model of imaginative and provocative programming. —
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A new piece by Lapwood herself, Arise, Shine, opens the album, showcasing the Pembroke Chapel Choir's easeful unanimity of diction, and its warmly blended tonal profile. —
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Eve finds her voice as Prohaska and Drake navigate Eden’s bright spots and murkier corners. A heady selection of songs to intoxicate the senses; vivid storytelling and musicality. —
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2020
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Song
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Hans Rosbaud Conducts French Music
Monique Haas (piano), Südwestfunkorchester Baden-Baden, Hans Rosbaud
The transfers are more than satisfactory. An extremely fine collection, much to be recommended, and not only to the aficionado. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Historical
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2023, Reissue/Archive Issue of the Month
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Messiaen Edition
RecommendedAn 18-CD set offering a comprehensive overview of Messiaen’s work in recordings made between 1963 and 2000.
Olivier Messiaen, Katia and Marielle Labeque, Yvonne Loriod (piano), Marie-Claire Alain (organ), Maria Oràn (soprano), Huguette Fernandez (violin), Guy Deplus (clarinet), Jacques Nielz (cello), Marie-Madeleine Petit (piano), pianos, Rachel Yakar (soprano), Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano), Dominique...
Messiaen's own performance of the large organ cycle Méditations sur le mystère de la Sainte-Trinité is included amongst the goodies on offer here. …it is thoroughly compulsive listening, and... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 7th July 2008
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2005, Special Review
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Building a Library, March 2017, First Choice
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Frank Martin's Mass for Double Choir has emotional depths beneath its austere surface. From the outset, there's a luminous confidence in the Dutch singers' sound, as the two choirs ebb and flow... —
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L'amour et la foi
Vocal music by Olivier Messiaen
Marianna Shirinyan (piano) & Thomas Bloch (ondes martenot)
Danish National Vocal Ensemble, Danish National Concert Choir & Danish National Chamber Orchestra, Marcus Creed
These Danish performances conducted by Marcus Creed are models of precision and lucidity; every vocal and instrumental strand is there. But it all comes across as rather cool, with neither the... —
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2015, Winner - Musique Chorale
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