Orchid Classics
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Booth's remarkable capabilities as a singing actress allow her to encompass the multiple personas, verbal dexterity and moments of emotional nakedness that characterise Cocteau's poetry, as... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th June 2026
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Special offer. Vaughan Williams: Retrospect
London Choral Sinfonia, Michael Waldron, Jack Liebeck (violin), Andrew Staples (tenor, Thomas Carroll (cello)
The two choral works showcase the unforced sensitivity of the London Choral Sinfonia, who skilfully avoid overheating the patriotism of Kipling’s text for ‘Land of our Birth’, and the funerary... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2024, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. The Four Quarters
The Solem Quartet, Amy Tress, William Newell (tape), Stephen Upshaw, Stephanie Tress (electronics), William Marsey (tape)
This terrific, imaginative debut recording from the young British quartet is built around the eponymous 2011 work by Thomas Adès, which is interleaved with the group's own arrangements of works... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2021
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encouraged by Freeman’s limpid touch, he finely captures the changing moods of the canticle My beloved is mine, from impassioned declamation to the stillness of ‘He is my Altar’ and the quiet... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, July 2020
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out of the bran tub comes my favourite Christmas choral disc of 2009 - Joy in the morning, another wide-ranging collection from Jeffrey Skidmore's excellent Birmingham-based choir, Ex Cathedra.... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 30th November 2009
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Special offer. Absolute - Johann Sebastian Bach: Lute Suites Bwv 996-998 (transcribed For Piano)
Eleonor Bindman (piano)
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Fullana includes the E major Partita, employing gut strings, Baroque bow and authentic ornamentation. In so doing, he finds a compelling middle-way between Romantic and period-instrument rhetoric,... —
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2021, Instrumental Choice
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Gintova plays a contemporarily strung violin at today’s concert pitch enlivening the music with expressive warmth and stylistic propriety...Certainly, she reaches the heart of the music with... —
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