Signum
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It makes for a varied and rewarding programme enriched by Williams's velvet touch, meticulous voicing, attention to detail and judiciously graded dynamics. For me, he is at his best in the music... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Liszt Abroad
Rebecca Evans (soprano), Andrew Kennedy (tenor), Matthew Rose (baritone) & Iain Burnside (piano)
The 20 songs recorded here cover a vast range of language and expression… Burnside is a faultless guide along this journey, exhibiting power when required but never forcing either tone or pace;... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2010, Vocal Finalist
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2009, Editor's Choice
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Complete Songs of Duparc
Malcolm Martineau (piano), Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), Nicky Spence (tenor), Huw Montague Rendall (baritone), William Thomas (bass)
a high standard is attained by all participants...Both rising stars of the UK vocal firmament, Thomas and Montague Rendall earn their places alongside fully established performers. —
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Finalists, Finalist - Song
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Lament & Liberation
Kevin Ke (soprano), Samuel Smith (soprano), Montague Tatnell (soprano), Ingrid Birchall (soprano), Joseph Hancock (soprano), Arthur Cobb (soprano), Alice Markham (vocalist), James Gant (tenor), Martha Gritten (soprano), Matthew Monaghan (vocalist), Alexander Robson, Choir of St John's College Cambridge,...
Christopher Gray’s first album with St John’s College is an unflinchingly serious programme of contemporary music, ambitious and challenging for both singers and listeners alike...The choir’s... —
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2025, Choral Choice
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Moonstruck - Songs of F G Scott
Lisa Milne (soprano), Roderick Williams (baritone) & Iain Burnside (piano)
Signum Classics' enterprising sequence reveals a composer of acute poetic instinct, uncompromising integrity and markedly cosmopolitan sensibility… Scott's native roots are abundantly in evidence,... —
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2007, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2007, Editor's Choice
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Jonathan Harvey: Deo
RecommendedEdward Picton-Turbervill (organ)
St John's College Choir Cambridge, Andrew Nethsingha
nuanced and exhilarating performances. —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2017, Choral Winner
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2016, Editor's Choice
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Visions Illuminées
RecommendedMary Bevan (soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano), 12 Ensemble, Ruisi Quartet
The heart of the recital is a radiantly searching performance of Britten’s Les illuminations...Bevan’s ability to combine warmth with refreshing vigour is to the fore in Chausson’s Chanson perpétuelle... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, February 2023
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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Barley’s playing [of The Protecting Veil] at first feels a touch too restrained, but as the piece progresses [his] restraint proves perfectly judged and a performance of great tenderness and... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2019, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Critics' Choice
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Bliss sounds well to the fore in the Weber…Riding the Carducci Quartet’s neatly articulated or sensitively sustained accompaniments, Bliss tackles the score with a piercingly pure, vibrato-less... —
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Record Review, 3rd November 2018, Disc of the Week
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Building a Library, March 2019, Also Recommended
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The Sweetest Songs: Music from the Baldwin Partbooks III
Alice Hulett, Ruth Provost, David Gould, Contrapunctus, Owen Rees
They are in cracking form here, with no discernible weak link in the ensemble: honey-toned and purposeful sopranos, assertive countertenors and everything on down to match. —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2021, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Early Music
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