Signum
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The opening of the Bartok Sonata is powerful and arresting, and there's passion and musical imagination throughout, the fiendish multiple stops and alternations between bowed and plucked notes... —
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Sensitive interpretations enhance the excellence of the singing throughout this testing programme, which displays a group of choir soloists who never falter. Tavener’s mysticism in music brings... —
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James McCarthy: Codebreaker & Will Todd: Ode to a Nightingale
Julia Doyle (soprano)
BBC Concert Orchestra, Hertfordshire Chorus, David Temple
Taken as a whole I greatly admired the honesty and sincerity of this music drama…The BBC Concert Orchestra offer superb support to both composers and the engineering is up to Signum’s customary... —
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Bednall: Welcome All Wonders: A Christmas Cantata
The Choir of The Queen's College, Oxford, Owen Rees (director)
Bednall’s work makes a bright, immediate impression, the idiom, accessible without being superficial. —
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The Evening Hour
British Choral Music from the 16th and 20th Centuries
The Choir of Jesus College Cambridge, Mark Williams
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[the Nocturnes de Andalucía] with its lush, flamenco-hued evocations of shifting passions beneath the stars, thus balances rather than overwhelms Rodrigo’s chamber-like atmosphere – a genuine... —
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Only a Singing Bird
Karen Cargill (mezzo) & Philip Moore (piano)
NYCoS National Girls Choir, Christopher Bell
a fruitful vehicle for showcasing what the Girls Choir of the National Youth Choir of Scotland is capable of. What’s striking is how evenly matched in quality the different voice parts are when... —
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The Complete Songs of Francis Poulenc Volume 1
Lorna Anderson (soprano), Jonathan Lemalu (bass-baritone), Felicity Lott (soprano), Lisa Milne (soprano), Christopher Maltman (baritone), Robert Murray (tenor) & Malcolm Martineau (piano)
Alongside Malcolm Martineau's searching piano, the singers find a consistent character: considered, spacious, unaffected but cumulatively intense, to the extent that you may need to pause and... —
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This is a class act and a good entry point. Signum has plenty more where this comes from. —
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This engaging CD suggests Rhodes is finally comfortable in his skin. His readings of Bach's Partita No. 1 and Beethoven's Pastoral Sonata are fresh and lovingly detailed, while his Chopin Third... —
