Choral, Anthems & Motets, Couperin, F (composer)
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Jonathan Freeman-Attwood's playing is notable for the beauty and freedom of line of his lyrical phrasing, while the bravura is exhilarating. Daniel-Ben Pienaar's accompaniments are boldly supportive... —
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Couperin: Trois Leçons de Ténèbres
Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Marianne Beate Kielland (mezzo), Lynda Sayce (theorbo), Robert King (chamber organ), Susanne Heinrich (viol)
King's Consort
The two singers complement each other beautifully in the final setting, Kielland's reedy voice, with its somewhat androgynous quality, throwing Sampson's crystalline soprano into high relief... —
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Special offer. F. Couperin: Leçons de Ténèbres
James Bowman (countertenor), Michael Chance (countertenor), Mark Caudle (viola da gamba) & Robert King (organ)
An exultant motet and two canticles are memorably sung. Two solo Lecons are harder to sustain; the third, a duet, is most arresting. Caudle and King's responsive accompaniments is exemplary. —
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Le Louvre des Musiciens
La Chapelle Royale (early music ensemble), Ensemble Organum (early music ensemble), Andrew Lawrence-King (harp), The Harp Consort (miscellaneous ensemble), Orlando Consort (early music ensemble), Ensemble Clément Janequin (early music ensemble), Les Arts Florissants (early music ensemble), London...
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Miserere: Clérambault & Couperin
RecommendedIsabelle Druet, Hasnaa Bennani, Claire Lefilliâtre
Le Poème Harmonique, Vincent Dumestre
These performances, in a nicely-captured resonant acoustic, are engaging and expertly ornamented. Hasnaa Bennani is particularly affecting in the first of Couperin's Lessons for the Wednesday... —
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Building a Library, November 2018, Also Recommended
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Adès: America A Prophecy
RecommendedSongs & Choral Works
Robin Blaze, Christopher Maltman & Susan Bickley
Polyphony & City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Stephen Layton & Thomas Ades
Adès’s take on a Madness song about a stressed businessman is a hoot. Although Adès apparently did it from memory, it’s fairly accurate, right down to the piano’s cluster chords. —
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Gramophone Awards, 2004, Winner - Contemporary
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Thomas Adès - America
RecommendedSusan Bickley (mezzo-soprano), Claron McFadden (soprano), Robin Blaze (countertenor), Huw Watkins )piano), Christopher Maltman (baritone)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Thomas Adès
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Gramophone Awards, 2004, Winner - Contemporary
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The Best of John Eliot Gardiner
Paul Agnew (tenor), Felicity Palmer (soprano), Margaret Marshall (soprano), Jean-Claude Orliac (tenor), Stephen Roberts (bass), Wynford Evans (tenor), Rachel Yakar (soprano), Charles Brett (countertenor), Martyn Hill (tenor), Norma Burrowes (soprano), Stephen Varcoe (bass, baritone), Barbara Hendricks...
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33ª Rassegna internazionale di Cappelle Musicali - Loreto
Società Corale Giacomo Puccini - Grosseto (Italia), Chor de l'Ecole de Musique Louaïzé - Jounié (Libano), Coro Città di Arezzo, Coro S. Martino di Arezzo, Cappella Sancti Quintini - Hasselt (Belgio), Coro Insegnanti Ungheresi in Slovacchia - Bratislava (Slovacchia), Jugendchor des Sachari Stojanov...
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