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Birtwistle: The Moth Requiem
RecommendedRoderick Williams (baritone)
BBC Singers & Nash Ensemble, Nicholas Kok
This is a wonderful and important release of his powerful and often delicate works. Best, perhaps, to begin with On the Sheer Threshold of the Night, which is a kind of spin-off from The Mask... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2014, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Finalist - Contemporary
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Special offer. Barry: Alice's Adventures Under Ground
Irish National Opera, Claudia Boyle (soprano), Gavan Ring (tenor), Peter Tantsits (tenor), Stephen Richardson (bass-baritone), Alan Ewing (bass-baritone), Clare Presland (mezzo-soprano), Hilary Summers (contralto), Irish Chamber Orchestra, André de Ridder
The variety of styles presented in this short, single-act opera is mind-boggling... In another setting, under another composer, all this might seem bizarre, but such musical references are so... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2021
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Contemporary
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Contemporary Music
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The humour that is so integral to Haydn emerges naturally from the music itself; Donohoe knows that in these sonatas and caprices, a sly wink is far more effective than mugging for the microphone. —
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The Organ of Westminster Cathedral
Robert Quinney (Westminster Cathedral organ, Henry Willis III, 1922-32)
It’s quite an achievement to pull off orchestral transcriptions for the organ that don’t have you missing the original, but Robert Quinney manages this on the magnificent Westminster Cathedral... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2006, Instrumental Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2007, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Adams & Harris Violin Concertos
Tamsin Waley-Cohen (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Litton
Waley-Cohen brings magnetic performances and an enthusiast’s passion to this splendid disc…his Violin Concerto duly bubbles with folk melodies, modal harmonies and open-hearted expression, and... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2016, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Shortlisted - Concerto
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Elgar: The Kingdom
Francesca Chiejina (soprano), Dame Sarah Connolly (mezzo), Benjamin Hulett (tenor), Ashley Riches (bass-baritone)
London Mozart Players, Crouch End Festival Chorus, David Temple
Previous releases of The Kingdom by Boult, Slatkin, Hickox and Elder all have their attractions, but Temple yields to none of them in his consistently cogent and energised interpretation. His... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2025, Editor's Choice
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[Mullova] using an exquisitely subtle range of vibrato, from a gloriously pure senza to gentle inflections that both sooth and insinuate. —
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Pious Anthems and Voluntaries aspires, in Finnissy’s words, ‘to be a work of guts and brains’. It embodies both in spades…Nethsingha and his forces do it proud. Indeed one of their greatest... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2020, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2020, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Contemporary
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Mozart in London
RecommendedAna Maria Labin (soprano), Helen Sherman (mezzo), Ben Johnson (tenor), Anna Devin (soprano), Rebecca Bottone (soprano), Robert Murray (tenor), Martene Grimson (soprano), Eleanor Dennis (soprano)
The Mozartists, Ian Page
Bold yet highly sensitive, Page and his musicians show what makes this musicians show what makes this music great. Page draws on a deep bench of vocal talent; of his eight soloists, Rebecca... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2018
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2018, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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A spooky, flickering account of Elgar’s Owls underlines the ability of Short and his outstandingly responsive singers to create riveting atmosphere, and communicate to the listener the import... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Choral & Song Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Nominee - Choral Performance
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