Choral, Anthems & Motets, 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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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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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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A pleasant selection of French music from over 2000 years, ranging from Gregorian chant to 20th-century motets. A tidy interpretation from Vox Clamantis, with a delicate top line. —
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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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La France au Calvaire is an astonishing work, setting, to quote the booklet note, 'a curious libretto' by René Herval who, like Dupré, was a native of Rouen. Appalled by the devastation wrought... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2002, Editor's Choice
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The Lamb's Journey. A Choral Narrative From Gibbons To Barber
James Kennerley, Elijah McCormack (soloist), Michael Garrepy (soloist), Eleonore Cockerham (soloist), Ensemble Altera, Christopher Lowrey
Altera’s debut album is a superb showcase. Clean as a whistle and conf ident in exposed moments such as in Poulenc’s Agnus Dei, and immaculately balanced in richly scored textures elsewhere,... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Opera
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The Music of Westminster Cathedral Choir
Andrew Reid (organ), James O'Donnell (organ), Iain Simcock (organ)
Westminster Cathedral Choir, David Hill
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The Latvians are ravishing in Strauss's formidable Deutsche Motette, which is essentially a concerto for choir, the composer treating the ensemble in the same way as a vast orchestra...the impressively... —
