Signum
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With Williams…expressiveness is all. He paradoxically achieves this through emotional restraint, and in a style which you might call ‘plain’, but which allows the individual character of each... —
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2018, Recording of the Month
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Donohoe takes each work at face value, delivering straightdown-the-middle interpretations with the utmost directness, high-definition clarity and scrupulous rhythmic accuracy. —
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Divine Impresario
Nicolini On Stage
Randall Scotting (countertenor), Mary Bevan (soprano), Academy of Ancient Music, Laurence Cummings
Throughout this album Scotting is at times demanding, impatient, dramatic and flamboyant, as one would expect from roles written for Nicolini, but always poised and richly toned...But this is... —
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Sarah Fox: Mozart Concert Arias
Sarah Fox (soprano), Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla Y León, Roberto Forés Veses, Malcolm Martineau (piano)
As one might expect, Fox's singing is consistently lovely, with the familiar silvery gleam in her upper registers much in evidence, though there's warmth lower in the voice when it's needed. —
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These performances are impeccable, the timbre of the voices and the sheer depth of the sound perfectly complimenting the mournful nature of Lassus's Lamentations —
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Throughout, the choir is on top form, with an exceptionally clear and forward tone. Former organ scholar Glen Dempsey matches the level of his colleagues’ achievements, proving himself to be... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2019, Editor's Choice
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Brian Elias: Music For Strings
Castalian Quartet, Natalie Clein (cello), Danny Driver (piano), Thomas Kemp
All are dedicated performers in compositions of textural and rhy thmic sophistication – but it’s the work for solo viola, But When I Sleep, that packs an emotional punch, sensitively performed... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2024, Editor's Choice
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The recording opens with Monteverdi’s Cantate Domino. It gets a captivating and sprightly presentation from the choir, accompanied by chamber organ and lute. —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2024, Editor's Choice
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Tavener: The Veil of the Temple
Patricia Rozario (soprano)
Choir of the Temple Church, Holst Singers & Members of the English Chamber Orchestra, Stephen Layton
Performance and recording are outstanding. An essential testimony to the vitality of the musical and spiritual vision of the final creative phase of one of Britain's greatest composers. —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2014, Re-issue of the Month
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[Tenebrae's] account of Parry's Songs of Farewell abounds in subtleties of phrasing and telling distinctions of dynamic, yet flows beautifully, the textual narrative unfolding with a rare continuity... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2012, Choral Finalist
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