Vocal, Songs, Bridge (composer)
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Devos’s genuine affection for this repertoire shines through…With Britten’s cycle On this Island, Devos’s sheer accuracy and panache outshines many sopranos on record. —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Critics' Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2021, Editor's Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, February 2021
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Song
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Day of These Days
The British Isles Reflected in Song
Tristan Hambleton (bass-baritone), Simon Lepper (piano)
It's the quality of the performances as much as the attractions of an unusual programme (eight items new to disc) that make this assemblage so desirable. Everything is considered, imaginative... —
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2026, Vocal Choice
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Bevan is at her most persuasive in the lesser-known songs she chooses. She and Middleton excel in Ralph Vaughan Williams' late song "Tired' and it would be impossible to imagine a more satisfying... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2025, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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A sense of the mannered or precious can debase these songs; Keenlyside's sweeping, robust lyricism is deceptively effortless and exactly right...Dr Johnson once said that every man thinks worse... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Winner - Solo Vocal
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Come to Me in My Dreams
120 years of songs from the RCM
Sarah Connolly (mezzo), Joseph Middleton (piano)
A varied collection that offers more than just vocal bonbons…Connolly and Middleton execute the complex phrasing [of A Charm of Lullabies] with a sense of ensemble for which they are revered. —
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Presto Editor's Choice, July 2018
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2018, Editor's Choice
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Royal is on fine form in the Schumann and Schubert Lieder, with Malcolm Martineau at the piano stage-managing the show admirably, as indeed he does throughout. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 14th February 2011
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Daniel Hope - Belle Époque
Daniel Hope (violin), Lise de la Salle (piano), Simon Crawford-Phillips (piano), Zürcher Kammerorchester
It’s all very tastefully done, if rather insubstantial. —
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Instrumentalist of the Year
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Bridge: Orchestral Works Volume 6
Philip Langridge (tenor), Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Richard Hickox
Sarah Connolly sings Bridge's orchestral songs beautifully —
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BBC Music Magazine, Choral & Song Choice
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Huw Watkins’s Larkin settings are the main reason to invest in this recital —
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Presto Editor's Choice, February 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Sounds and Sweet Airs - A Shakespeare Songbook
Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Roderick Williams (baritone), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Sampson’s vocal security throughout the registers, clear diction, and patrician phrasing all testify to a complete artist. And Sampson proves every bit as much at home in the modernist works... —
