Choral, Madrigals & Partsongs, Weelkes (composer)
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Special offer. Poetry in Music
Ruth Provost, Kirsty Hopkins, David Clegg, Jeremy Budd, Ben Davies, Julie Cooper, Edward McMullan, Mark Dobell
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers
It is clear that this is something really special. That specialness comes not just from the fact that The Sixteen elevate everything they perform through their opulent musicality and supreme... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2015, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Shortlisted - Choral
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The singers make a beautifully balanced sound with impressive fluency across each style...there is a pleasing tension between a consort blend and the vital quirkiness of individual voices...Jourdain’s... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2018, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2019, Finalist - Early Music
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The Pillar of the Cloud
Five Centuries of Oxford Anthems
The Choir Of Magdalen College, Oxford, Mark Williams
There’s some wonderfully, unfairly unfashionable repertoire here…Magdalen’s sound has always had an unmannered, forthright quality to it, something Williams celebrates in the jagged, ecstatic... —
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Faced with such a variety of registers and languages, Amarcord are rarely to be faulted… I defy anyone who hears their sunny reading of Lassus's Bon jour, et puis quelles nouvelles to get it... —
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In the Beginning
Beth Mackay (mezzo-soprano) & Natasha Tyrwhitt-Drake (organ scholar)
Choir of Merton College, Oxford, Benjamin Nicholas & Peter Phillips (directors)
The 18 uninterrupted minutes of Copland's a cappella In the Beginning are a major test of any choir's stamina and concentration, and it's one the Mertonians pass with confidence...[Beth Mackay]... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2011, Editor's Choice
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The expressive qualities of Weelkes' madrigals is well conveyed by The Consort of Musicke. There is much attention to the text, and the declamatory elements are also brought out convincingly.... —
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English Madrigals
from the Oxford University Press Book of English Madrigals
Pro Cantione Antiqua, Philip Ledger (director)
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Choirs of Cambridge: Queen's College Choir 'Evening Hymn'
English Choral Music
Choir of Queens' College Cambridge & Cambridge University Brass Group, John Gibbons & Philip Walsh
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