Chamber, Canzonas
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Victoria - Missa Gaudeamus
Recommendeda liturgical sequence, with organ works by Girolamo Frescobaldi
Thomas Wilson (organ)
Westminster Cathedral Lay Clerks, Matthew Martin
An elaborate musical mosaic, the appeal of which owes much to the atmospheric depths of the Westminster acoustic, beautifully captured on this recording —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 6th July 2009
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New. Spiritillo Mediterraneo
Cristina Prats Costa (violin), Lucas Harris, Naghmeh Farahmand, Joseph Phillips, Esmeralda Enrique, Michael Unterman, Charlotte Nediger
'Il Spiritillo Brando' gets things off to an engaging start with its brightly rhythmic, lightly skipping ease, and thereafter you do genuinely hear that spright's influence...this is a polished... —
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Special offer. Monteverdi: Vespri solenni per la festa di San Marco
RecommendedMonica Piccinini, Anna Simboli (sopranos), Andrea Arrivabene, Gianluca Ferrarini (altos), Luca Dordolo, Raffaele Giordani (tenors) & Matteo Bellotto, Salvo Vitale (bass)
Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini
Alessandrini’s Monteverdi interpretations resound with passion…a brilliantly conceived, scholastically sound and liturgically plausible sequence, burnished with spiritual sincerity. —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2014, Disc of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Gramophone Awards, 2015, Winner - Baroque Vocal
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And the Bridge is Love
RecommendedEnglish Music for Strings
Julian Lloyd Webber (cello)
English Chamber Orchestra
as a conductor, he evidently has the ability to make a difference to collective performance-level (the English Chamber Orchestra plays characteristically and vividly at every point) while not... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2015, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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The performances are excellent, even given the variety of the program. They make for an hour and 15 minutes of immersion into the Venetian spirit. The vocalists are spot on pitch, and the instruments... —
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Diapason d’Or, November 2019, Nouveauté
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2020, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2020
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Buxtehude - Complete Organ Works Volume 5
Christopher Herrick (Aubertin organ of Mariager Klosterkirke, Denmark)
Outstanding competition and the revisiting of material must in no way prove a barrier to anyone with even a vague interest in Buxtehude's organ music, for this is a simply splendid disc...Above... —
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Lootens's expansive, mature take on Castelnuovo-Tedesco's Paganini homage, the multifaceted Capriccio diabolico, is not so much the programme's apotheosis as the casting of a musical eye back... —
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Special offer. English Royal Funeral Music
RecommendedLes Trompettes des Plaisirs, Lingua Franca & Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier
one might call it a classically 'English' choral sound - but any suspicions of coolness are easily dispelled by the commitment shown to the meaning of both music and text...Once again, Vox Luminis... —
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Building a Library, April 2015, First Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2013, Editor's Choice
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A selection from the two sets of Sei Liriche yields the sensual ‘O falce di luna’ and seductively rippling ‘Au milieu du jardin’, where both Bostridge and pianist Saskia Giorgini are at their... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Vocal
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