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Skinner's scholarly expertise both strengthens and weakens his conducting. Cadences, modal shifts and points of imitation steer his reading. Especially when the English Cornett & Sackbutt Ensemble... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2015, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Gramophone Awards, 2015, Winner - Early Music
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Everywhere [Skinner] negotiates an ear-opening path through the changing shapes and densities of Tallis’s ever-fluid formulations; the polyphony is delineated with laser-sharp precision, and... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2017
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2018, Concerto Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2018, Recording of the Month
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2018, Nominated - Vocal/Choral
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Antoine Brumel: From Darkness Into Light
The complete Lamentations of Jeremiah for Good Friday
Musica Secreta
This performance imagines them being sung in a 16th-century nunnery, so Brumel’s original low-voice scoring is transposed for female singers, with an organ and a viol providing lower parts.... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Shortlisted - Early Music
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Handel: Peace & Celebration
Alex Potter (countertenor)
European Union Baroque Orchestra & Choir Of Clare College Cambridge, Lars Ulrik Mortensen
The Coronation Anthems come over pretty well. The Clare College Choir is homogenous and mainly assured, though the technical balance does not always allow the voices to shine through the instrumental... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2014, Editor's Choice
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Tomkins - These Distracted Times
Jamal Sutton (organ)
Choir of Sidney Sussex College Cambridge, Fretwork & Alamire, David Skinner
The career of Thomas Tomkins straddled several reigns as well as the Cromwell era and this had an impact on his music, which otherwise reflects the influence of his mentor, William Byrd. Vocal... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2008, Disc of the Month
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Anne Boleyn’s Songbook
Music and Passions of a Tudor Queen
Clare Wilkinson (voice), Jacob Heringman (lute) & Kirsty Whatley (harp)
Alamire, David Skinner
Alamire's sound is robust and muscular, full-bodied rather than pristine. Mezzo-soprano Clare Wilkinson sings the solo songs with ingenuous simplicity, subtly inflecting the words with period... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2016, Choral Finalist
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Homophonic passages impress with their splendour, enriched here by the chestnut hues of basses William Gaunt and Robert Macdonald. The clarity of line lays bare the ingenuity of counterpoint,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2011, Editor's Choice
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Obsidian is known for its catalogue of scrupulously stylish recordings of early music, so a disc of organ pieces by Schoenberg and Reger might seem unlikely from a company that has never previously... —
