Chamber, Trios, Blow (composer)
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The ensemble is a coterie of some of the finest early musicians on the scene today – friends who evidently relish the art of musical conversation, the guiding ethos of the English consort tradition. —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2024, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 24th May 2024
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2024, Chamber Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
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Blow: An Ode on the Death of Mr Henry Purcell
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Emma Walshe (soprano), Zoë Brookshaw (soprano), Samuel Boden (tenor), Thomas Walker (tenor), William Gaunt (bass)
Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen
Duets for high tenor seem to have been something of a Blow speciality…and in Samuel Boden and Thomas Walker, director Jonathan Cohen has harnessed a quintessentially English sound whose lyricism... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2017, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2017, Choral & Song Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2018, Finalist - Vocal
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Record Review, 21st October 2017, Recording of the Week
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Pramsohler, violinist and founder of Ensemble Diderot, has given careful thought to the construction and originality of his programmes…The London Album is crowned by sonatas by Purcell from... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Baroque Instrumental
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2019
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The English Orpheus 18 - Fairest work of happy Nature
John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Timothy Roberts (spinet, harpsichord, chamber organ), Paula Chateauneuf (theorbo, baroque guitar)
Full of interest, rich in its varied pleasures and in the high standard of recording and performance —
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John Blow: Venus and Adonis
Theatre of the Ayre (early music ensemble), Elizabeth Kenny (lute), Elin Manahan Thomas (soprano), Sophie Daneman (soprano), Roderick Williams (baritone)
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Private Musick
Francis Colpron (recorders, traverso), Marie Bouchard (harpsichord), Susie Napper (viola da gamba), Hélène Plouffe (violin)
Les Boréades
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John Blow: Venus and Adonis
Recorded live at Wigmore Hall, London, on 3 May 2010
Theatre of the Ayre: Rachel Podger, Clare Salaman (violins), Galina Zinchenko (viola), Alison McGillivray (bass violin and viol), Pamela Thorby, Kate Latham, Merlin Harrison (recorders), David Miller (theorboes/guitars), James Johnstone (harpsichord) & Elizabeth Kenny (director/theorbo/guitar),...
The true stars here are the band, led by Elizabeth Kenny, which extemporises and pushes tempos to giddy extremes. Elin Manahan Thomas steps boldly into Cupid's role, alternating deftly between... —
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