Delphian
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Charlston's mezzo is as dark and full-bodied as a good claret, and she offers highly expressive readings of the texts, plumbing their depths with cut-glass diction and a glorious range of colours... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2022
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2022, Choral & Song Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Winner - Vocal
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Winners, Concept Album of the Year
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Shibe performs with superb artistry some of the now classics that Bream inspired...Prime in any such catalogue is Britten's 1963 Nocturnal after John Dowland, and Shibe gathers the listener... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2017, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2017, Instrumental Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2018, Finalist - Instrumental
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It’s hard to resist. Here is a choir in which all the elements are held in perfect equilibrium. Patrick Allies ponders every note before moulding lines whose suppleness in turn coalesce into... —
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2018, Choral & Song Choice
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Adriatic Voyage: Seventeenth-Century Music from Venice to Dalmatia
RecommendedThe Illyria Consort (early music ensemble), Bojan Čičić (violin), Marian Consort (leadvocalist), Rory McCleery, Gawain Glenton
Throughout, singers and instrumentalists breathe and communicate as one, their rapport unbreakable. A recording, in short, packed with fresh discoveries at every turn; and a vivid snapshot of... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2021
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There isn’t a dull or uninteresting track anywhere on this CD ... Tabea Debus is the kind of virtuoso who makes you forget how superb she is technically, by the completeness with which she puts... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2020
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The voices of Ensemble Pro Victoria really are world- class and their tuning is radiant, but the overall texture can veer occasionally towards the weighty because of the doubled bass line. —
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Many quartets have broken the tradition of single-composer discs. The Castalians do it with top performances and meticulous imagination. —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Nominated - Newcomer
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Ed Lyon sings all three languages with great clarity and alertness to the sense of the words, ornaments his line idiomatically and displays an appealing ease and evenness of voice production... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2019
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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This musical kaleidoscope turns through dark hued reflections and light-filled reveries...Technically, the Rose Consort is well-nigh flawless, and these restrained, refined readings, informed... —
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With two women in the group, they make no pretence at emulating what might have happened in the 16th century; but that lets them sing out with more freedom. So this is no-nonsense musicianship,... —
