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Barley’s playing [of The Protecting Veil] at first feels a touch too restrained, but as the piece progresses [his] restraint proves perfectly judged and a performance of great tenderness and... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2019, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Critics' Choice
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An eclectic album, reflecting O/Modernt's commitment to juxtaposing music from different periods and styles. Josquin's Ave Maria could almost be by Arvo Pärt, and moves seamlessly into Selim,... —
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Both Padmore and the Sacconi Quartet, who have a major expressive role as accompanists, are at their finest in ‘Soon, we will be free’, the serene, lyrical heart of [In Damascus]…pianist Charles... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2017, Recording of the Month
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Tenebrae is equal to every challenge. The tuning is impeccable, the phrasing intelligent and never forced, the balance always adjusted to the demands of Poulenc's textures...Not least, the sopranos... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2011, Choral Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2010, Choral & Song Choice
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Record Review, December 2010, Critics' Disc of the Year
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Handel: L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato
RecommendedGillian Webster (soprano), Laurence Kilsby (treble), Jeremy Ovenden (tenor), Peter Harvey (baritone), Ashley Riches (bass), William Whitehead (organ)
Gabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh
The choral elements are scrupulously handled by the Gabrieli Consort, and the soloists are choice. Gillian Webster is the light, bright soprano, Laurence Kilsby the delightful treble tenor Jeremy... —
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Sunday Times, 2015, Albums of the Year
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2015, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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This is a marvellously handled recording conjuring up a ‘live’ event that is greatly aided by the opening bell-ringing and the ethereal spacious surround of the chanting. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 18th June 2012
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Gramophone Awards, 2013, Winner - Early Music
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In Chains of Gold: The English Pre-Restoration Verse Anthem Vol. 2
RecommendedWilliam Byrd to Edmund Hooper: Psalms and Royal Anthems
Magdalena Consort, Fretwork, His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts, with Silas Wollston (organ)
The underpinning scholarship doesn’t just run to artful reconstructions, teasing missing viol parts out of extant organ sources…The grainy, dark hues of Fretwork’s viols lend extra introductory... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th June 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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The Psalms
Glen Dempsey, George Herbert, James Anderson-Besant, Choir of St John's College Cambridge, Andrew Nethsingha
Nethsingha treats each psalm as a mini tone-poem of vocal affects, each line inflected in distinctive ways to elicit meaning and emotion from the biblical text...There is a danger, of course,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2022, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2022
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Britten: War Requiem, Op. 66
RecommendedSusan Gritton (soprano), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Christopher Maltman (baritone)
Wroclaw Philharmonic Choir, Gabrieli Young Singers Scheme, Trebles of The Choir of New College Oxford & Gabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh
[McCreesh's] New College choristers have the ideal mix of celestial glow and nimble impatience; his orchestra is wonderfully articulate. And the sound picture has the greatest depth of range... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2014, Choral Award Winner
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The sound image is compelling on its own terms, with the homogeneity typical of ensembles with countertenors on the top lines. But it's a flexible interpretation nonetheless...an involving experience. —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2013, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Finalist - Early Music
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Building a Library, December 2016, First Choice
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