Avie
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Taverner: Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas & other choral works
Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Stephen Darlington (director)
Stephen Darlington gives majestic shape to this monumental work, effectively drawing out the imperturbable tread of the 'Gloria tibi Trinitas' cantus firmus. The choir produces a sound of blistering... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2007, Editor's Choice
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Illuminations
Nicholas Phan (tenor), Myra Huang (piano)
Telegraph Quartet, The Knights Chamber Orchestra
Phan is brilliantly supported by the instrumentalists’ technicolour playing [in Les Illuminations]. Much of Phan’s soft singing is tenderly handled, and the moments where he slips into a transparent... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2018
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Karpman: Ask Your Mama
RecommendedJanai Brugger (soprano), Nnenna Freelon (vocals), Angela Brown (soprano)
San Francisco Ballet Orchestra, Medusa, The Roots, George Manahan
The cycle features a multitude of voices, including luminous soprano Janai Brugger…jazz vocalist Nnenna Freelon and the powerfully invisive Monét Owens, accompanied by the San Francisco Ballet... —
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Grammy Awards, 58th Awards (2015), Best Engineered Album, Classical
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Colin Jacobsen’s orchestration of Beethoven’s ‘Kreutzer’ Sonata is mostly convincing...had you never heard the original, you might accept this as a viable slice of Beethoven...Shorthand is an... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Assorted Programs
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Strauss: Sinfonia Domestica
RecommendedJonathan Small (oboe), Nicholas Cox (clarinet), Alan Pendlebury (bassoon)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz
Sheer heaven...remarkable performance —
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Building a Library, October 2014, First Choice
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More Divine Than Human: Music from the Eton Choirbook, Vol. 1
The Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Stephen Darlington
What makes this disc entrancingly fresh is its use of boy choristers: their translucence as a choir, their colours as soloists, and their easy swing through florid passages inject lightness... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Finalist - Early Music
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Haefliger likes to organise his recordings as integrated recitals, rather than as a contribution to a complete cyce of Beethoven Sonatas, or something of the kind...He combines a strenuously... —
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Building a Library, May 2016, Also Recommended
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Liszt: Années de pèlerinage, Première année: Suisse
and Bénédiction de Dieu dans la solitude
Charles Owen (piano)
Outstanding is ‘Vallée d’Obermann’, a warhorse usually flogged brutally through conservatoires everywhere. Owen’s thoroughly sympathetic treatment redeems Liszt from his own excesses and demonstrates... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2021, Editor's Choice
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Dvorák: Love Songs, Op. 83, Cypresses & Piano Quintet
Adriana Kucerova (soprano) & Christoph Eschenbach (piano), Christoph Eschenbach (piano)
Thymos Quartet
The playing in the quartet arrangements and the Quintet is very fine, but not everyone will respond to an interpretation which, in search of an expressive edge, often adopts abrupt changes of... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2012, Editor's Choice
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Baldassarre Galuppi - Forgotten Arias of a Venetian Master
Catherine King (mezzo soprano)
Il Canto di Orfeo, Gianluca Capuano (harpsichord and director)
Avie here marks his 300th anniversary – largely forgotten amid the Mozart and Shostakovich junketings – with a clutch of opera seria arias from the 1730s and '40s, before he teamed up with the... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2007, Editor's Choice
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