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Beowulf
Elin Manahan Thomas (soprano), Anne Denholm, Timothy West (narrator), Toby Young, Armonico Consort, AC Academy Warwick, AC Academy Scholars, Christopher Monks
Young has a huge talent for captivating melodies and rhythms, put to excellent use in this wonderful re-telling of the ancient Beowulf story complete with compelling narrative. —
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This collection of new festive works – some a cappella, some with organ – has a general sense of hushed reverence, nicely suited to the soft-edged, well balanced voices of the Voce Chamber Choir.... —
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Christmas with the Bevan Family Consort
Daisy Bevan (soprano), Agnes Bevan (soprano), Sophie Bevan (soprano), Mary Bevan (soprano), Tess Bevan (vocalist), Lizzy Bevan (vocalist), Francis Bevan (vocalist), Dom Bevan (tenor), Harry Bevan (tenor), David Bevan (baritone), Henry Bevan (baritone), Hugh Bevan (bass-baritone), Benny Bevan (bass-baritone),...
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A Pembroke Christmas
Emma Johnson (clarinet), Wallis Power, The Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge, The Pembroke College Girls' Choir, Anna Lapwood
Highlights include a numinous take on MacMillan’s O Radiant Dawn, Ailsa McTernan’s soaring solo in Patricia Van Ness’s ‘Archangelus’ and a performance of Kerensa Briggs’s A Tender Shoot, which... —
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Williams is a pianist with a formidable technique (how does he manage to play the spiralling right-hand octaves in the third piece of the Humoreske at s uch speed?), but – more importantly –... —
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Alec Roth: Sometime I Sing
Music for Voice and Guitar
Mark Padmore (tenor) & Morgan Szymanski (guitar)
Light-footed, lyrical, Roth's settings range from Thomas Wyatt to Vikram Seth. They suit Szymanski's elegant guitar and Padmore's refined tenor, but devitalise folksongs like Scarborough Fair. —
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The ensemble’s warm, smooth timbre immediately wins you over, especially in this resonant acoustic, and there are some beautiful pieces; Alberto Cortez’s Camina Siempre Adelante is an especially... —
