Choral, Hymns, Blow (composer)
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John Blow - Anthems
Richard Collins, Christopher Hill, Julian Kaye, Nathaniel Lippiett, Gavin Mccormick, Robin Blaze, Richard Childress, Joseph Cornwell, William Kendall, Peter Butterfield, Stephen Varcoe, Stephen Alder & Donald Sweeney
Winchester Cathedral Choir & The Parley Of Instruments, David Hill
Though overshadowed by his pupil Purcell, John Blow's church music is highly distinguished. Here are 14 of his richly scored anthems in skilful and idiomatic performances. —
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here's a disc disc to remember come all those end-of-year round-ups... There's a directness to Phan's delivery, a clarity to his diction that has previously found its home in Britten's text-driven... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2015, Editor's Choice
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Mead’s theatrical experience comes through most clearly in his dramatic rendering of some of the songs from the odes…The stage songs are often presented with an affecting fluidity, as in William... —
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O praise the Lord
Restoration Music from Westminster Abbey
Robert Quinney (organ), Julian Stocker (tenor) & Robert Macdonald (bass)
Westminster Abbey Choir, James O'Donnell
Throughout every work O'Donnell's direction is alive to the sophisticated vocal layering, and ever attentive to the meaning of the words - an innate musicality echoed in Robert Quinney's 'voluntary... —
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There are two appealing strengths to this recording. The first is that Grace Davidson and Julian Perkins are eminent and experienced performers who know how to make the most of this repertory.... —
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O Poore Distracted World!
English Songs & Anthems
Yulia Van Doren, Shannon Mercer (sopranos), Matthew White (alto), Charles Daniels (tenor), Tyler Duncan (baritone) & Robert Macdonald (bass)
Les Voix Baroques, Alexander Weimann
The use of single voices takes on the atmosphere of refined domestic devotional music, ideal for In guilty night by Robert Ramsey...Les Voix Baroques also excel in Purcell's more famous setting... —
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Clear or Cloudy
Purcell, Dowland, Hume
Benno Schachtner (counter-tenor), Axel Wolf (lute), Jakob David Rattinger (viola da gamba), Andreas Küppers (harpsichord)
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Iestyn Davies & Ensemble Guadagni
Iestyn Davies (counter-tenor)
Ensemble Guadagni: Matthew Truscott (violin), Jonathan Manson (viola da gamba), David Miller (theorbo) & Robert Howarth (harpsichord, organ)
Intimacy and freshness make this a breathtaking performance...Davies's celebrated timbre - translucent, warm, pure - and the Ensemble's imaginative additions make these melodies expand and glow —
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