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Shchedrin: The Sealed Angel
Clare Wills (oboe)
The Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge & The Choir of King's College London, Geoffrey Webber & David Trendell
Sung with clarity and sensitivity by the two choirs, this beautiful, impressive piece easily bears comparison with works that Shchedrin admires like Rachmaninov's Vespers. The instrumental... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2009, Editor's Choice
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From a city window: Songs by Hubert Parry
Ailish Tynan (soprano), Susan Bickley (mezzo), William Dazeley (baritone) & Iain Burnside (piano)
Superb singing combines with Iain Burnside's eloquent handling of Parry's piano textures. —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2013, Editor's Choice
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Into This World, This Day Did Come
RecommendedCarols Contemporary & Medieval
Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, Geoffrey Webber
There are many highlights but Williams Sweeney's Scots dialect setting 'The Innumerable Christ' stands out for its daring other-worldliness, as do Stuart MacRae's bold re-imagining of 'Adam... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 30th November 2009
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The Scottish airs often bear traces of dance-like elegance, well suited to the lustrous tone of Frances Cooper, whose hauntingly beautiful sound is one of the chief delights of the recording. —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2014, Editor's Choice
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Gabriel Jackson: Beyond The Stars
Sacred Choral Works II
Nicholas Wearne (organ)
Choir of St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh, Duncan Ferguson
It's the sheer fervour of the singing in Gabriel Jackson's The Glory of the Lord which gets you as it leaps, skids and (at the conclusion) yelps its paean of praise into the vibrant acoustic...The... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2012, Editor's Choice
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Oxana Shevchenko: Winner of the 2010 Scottish International Piano Competition
Oxana Shevchenko (piano)
This is the most exciting debut disc to come my way for some time...It will only take the opening bars of "Alborada" to convince you what a fine Ravel player she is...while Thea Musgrave's specially... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2011, Editor's Choice
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This disc is the result of an outpouring of love and, naturally, of grief, brought together in a splendid collection that stands as a celebration of David [Trendell’s] life as much as a memorial…[the... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2016, Editor's Choice
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Stabat Mater: Sacred Choral Music by Lennox and Michael Berkeley
The Marian Consort, Berkeley Ensemble, David Wordsworth
The Marian Consort’s background in early music pays dividends in their superb precision of pitch, impeccable rhythmic placing and beautiful diction…the lush harmonies that open [Judica me] are... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Shortlisted - Choral
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Building a Library, May 2016, Also Recommended
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New. Look How Brightly: Chamber Music by Alex Mills
Jess Dandy (contralto), Roderick Chadwick, CHROMA
With the Chroma ensemble on impressive form throughout, led by the ever-reliable Caroline Balding, the future looks bright indeed for Mills. —
