Choral, Anthems & Motets, Muhly (composer)
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Kenny lacks neither extensive playing experience in chamber, orchestral or operatic contexts nor a brilliant musical imagination. She brings both to bear on these performances of ‘old and new... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2020, Finalist - Instrumental
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Ascendit Deus: Music for Ascensiontide & Pentecost
Peter Harrison, Matthew Jorysz (organ)
Choir of Clare College, Cambridge & The Dmitri Ensemble, Graham Ross
the famous setting of Ascendit Deus by Peter Philips spurts forward like a colt sprung freshly from a stable, the vocal decorations spinning vertiginously round like Monteverdi. It's a bracing... —
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These 12 arrangements (by the ensemble) are of stylistic and historical diversity...Muhly’s Look for Me invests a US folk song with dark jazz; Janacek’s Zdenka Variations is an appealing discovery. —
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This is a delight of a disc. Short and slight – pared back to the essentials of both texture and repertoire – it’s a lunchtime recital rather than a full evening’s commitment, something to send... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2023, Editor's Choice
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Journey Into Light
Music for Advent, Christmas, Epiphany and Candlemas
The Choir of Jesus College, Cambridge, Mark Williams
Another Oxbridge college, another fine mixed-voice choir, another gorgeously captured chapel acoustic (Mike Hatch engineering) - this selection of favourite pieces by mainly British composers... —
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It's a remarkably haunting work, exquisitely sung here. Lightening the mood considerably are Gibbons's fantasias for viols, also deftly performed. —
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Sensitive interpretations enhance the excellence of the singing throughout this testing programme, which displays a group of choir soloists who never falter. Tavener’s mysticism in music brings... —
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Nowell Sing We: Contemporary Carols, Vol. 2
Alex Goodwin (organ), Nicholas Freestone (organ), Ben Cunningham (organ)
Choir of Worcester College, Oxford, Stephen Farr
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Forthright sits well on the Choir of The Queen’s College, Oxford. There’s an ingenuous freedom to their tone, sometimes almost a roughness, that might lack the polish of Cambridge rivals Trinity... —
