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Special offer. Carlson, D: Anna Karenina
Kelly Kaduce (Anna), Robert Gierlach (Vronsky), Christian Van Horn (Karenin), Brandon Jovanovich (Levin), Sarah Coburn (Kitty), Christine Abraham (Dolly) & Rosalind Elias (Agafia)
Opera Theatre Saint Louis & Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, Stewart Robertson
Colourful orchestration, lucid word-setting and dramatic alertness are among its virtues. —
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Music for Philip of Spain and his Four Wives
Susanne Heinrich (tenor and bass viols), Kah-Ming Ng (keyboards) & Lynda Sayce (vihuela, lutes and flutes)
Charivari Agréable
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Motets by Guillaume de Machaut
and mass music from the Ivrea Codex
The Clerks' Group, Edward Wickham
Each singer has a naturally light, straight-toned voice and can effortlessly float over the vocal lines like 'a feather on the breath of God —
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All The Ends Of The Earth
Contemporary & Medieval Vocal Music
The Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, Geoffrey Webber
The vibrant relationship between contemporary sacred British choral music and the music of the medieval era' is what this disc sets out to celebrate, and Judith Weir's All the Ends of the Earth,... —
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Donna Dream, Faye Newton and Gill Ross sing beautifully, with support from six other sopranos in chorally reinforced sections. Their polished vocal blend is complemented by expressive sincerity... —
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The Sultan and the Phoenix
French viol music by members of the Couperin family and their contemporaries
Charivari Agréable
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…what I love about both these performances is their spontaneity, flow and warmth, their natural ease with the idiom of both composers. Walton achieves a fabulous legato in the Rachmaninov's... —
