Wigmore Hall Live
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Lorraine Hunt Lieberson and Roger Vignoles
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (mezzo-soprano) & Roger Vignoles (piano)
The unique warmth of tone is sounded in the first notes even of the lighter Mahler songs. But there's also a spiritual grace in her approach. Key tracks such as Mahler's 'Ich bin de Welt abhanden... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Finalist - Solo
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2007, Choral & Song Choice
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Lorraine Hunt Lieberson & Julius Drake
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (mezzo-soprano) & Julius Drake (piano)
…Hunt Lieberson brings a rare translucency of tone to Brahms at his most impassioned and his most intimate. When it comes to Schumann's Mignon songs… we hear a pure, pearly line of longing,... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Finalist - Solo Vocal
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John Blow: Venus and Adonis
Theatre of the Ayre (early music ensemble), Elizabeth Kenny (lute), Elin Manahan Thomas (soprano), Sophie Daneman (soprano), Roderick Williams (baritone)
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L’alba separa dalla luce l’ombra
Dawn divides the light from the shadows
Anna Caterina Antonacci (soprano) & Donald Suzen (piano)
Antonacci and her scrupulous accmpanist Donald Sulzen, provide alert and imaginative accounts of all their material...Antonacci brings individuality to everything she sings, her colouristic... —
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Academy of Ancient Music
Concerti and Concerti Grossi by Handel, J S Bach and Vivaldi
Rachel Podger (violin), Pavlo Beznosiuk (violin), Frank de Bruine (oboe)
Academy of Ancient Music
…scrappy moments but the zesty interaction of the AAM's players in two of Handel's Op 6 Concerti grossi is unflaggingly alert, playful and dramatic. Frank de Bruine's poetic oboe is attractively... —
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John Blow: Venus and Adonis
Recorded live at Wigmore Hall, London, on 3 May 2010
Theatre of the Ayre: Rachel Podger, Clare Salaman (violins), Galina Zinchenko (viola), Alison McGillivray (bass violin and viol), Pamela Thorby, Kate Latham, Merlin Harrison (recorders), David Miller (theorboes/guitars), James Johnstone (harpsichord) & Elizabeth Kenny (director/theorbo/guitar),...
The true stars here are the band, led by Elizabeth Kenny, which extemporises and pushes tempos to giddy extremes. Elin Manahan Thomas steps boldly into Cupid's role, alternating deftly between... —
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Iestyn Davies & Ensemble Guadagni
Iestyn Davies (counter-tenor)
Ensemble Guadagni: Matthew Truscott (violin), Jonathan Manson (viola da gamba), David Miller (theorbo) & Robert Howarth (harpsichord, organ)
Intimacy and freshness make this a breathtaking performance...Davies's celebrated timbre - translucent, warm, pure - and the Ensemble's imaginative additions make these melodies expand and glow —
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