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Some performances grip you from the outset, and this St John’s College recording of Vaughan Williams’s Mass in G minor is one of them. The Kyrie’s rapt inwardness is built on the outstandingly... —
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2018, Choral & Song Choice
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Adès’s account [of On an Overgrown Path] eschews sentimentality and refuses to duck the suppressed violence that occasionally erupts…His care shown over Janáček’s inner part writing is often... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2020
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Be All Merry
RecommendedThe Choral Scholars of University College Dublin, Irish Chamber Orchestra, Desmond Earley
No fewer than half the choir’s two-dozen members step out for solos, revealing the in-depth quality of Earley’s singers. The glowing tonal blend that he elicits is a constant pleasure, and there’s... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 27th November 2020
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[Beatson is] undoubtedly a fine player, and in the [Op. 12 No. 1] sonata’s outer movements both he and Mullova convey the full energy and quirkiness of the young Beethoven at his most provocatively... —
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These performances are impressive. Ensemble is notably precise in Sibelius’s Finlandia, where the stern brass section and the tension of the strings provides the bedrock for a dynamic and highly... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, July 2017
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a Christmas issue which is genuinely challenging and different…Martin’s music evokes in an extraordinary suggestive manner the theological paradox buried within the Eden story… The Gabrieli’s... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Disc of the month
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Most of Bax's Hammerklavier is bracing and visionary, but the finale is hopelessly scrambled. Bax's Moonlight works well, and his arrangement of the Ruins is fun. —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2014, Editor's Choice
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Berg: String Quartet – Webern: Langsamer Satz – Schoenberg: String Quartet No. 2
RecommendedHeath Quartet (string quartet), Carolyn Sampson (soprano)
The Heath Quartet convey the [Schoenberg’s] often intimate intensity with great sensitivity, and Carolyn Sampson’s warm lyricism is ideal both in the forward-looking finale, and in the slow... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 15th July 2022
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Signum Anniversary Series: Choral Collection
The King's Singers, Tenebrae, VOCES8, The Swingle Singers & Rodolfus Choir
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2010, Editor's Choice
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