Delphian
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The third album from the Hermes Experiment again shows what a liberating force in contemporary music this ensemble have become… The question is no longer why composers would choose to write... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2025, Concept Album
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The Guardian Classical Albums of the Year, 2025
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Hill places the new work within an exceptionally well-crafted recital in which Messiaen's music is a recurrent thread in a span of resonances, influences and affinities...Whether in Dutilleux... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2014, Instrumental Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2014, Editor's Choice
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Čičić's distinctive sound - sweet, slightly dry and exquisitely centred - is ideal for the taut beauty of Carbonelli's solo lines. Crucially, Čičić fleshes out the composer's ideas, filling... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 23rd June 2017
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2017, Chamber Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2017
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New. House of Wonder: Sally Beamish celebrates 70 years
Sally Beamish (viola), Ryan Corbett (accordion), Imogen Whitehead (trumpet), Joseph Havlat (piano), Stephanie Irvine (harp), Peter Thomson (speaker), Rosalind Ventris (viola)
Curated to mark Sally Beamish's 70th birthday, House of Wonder offers an engaging portrait of her wide-ranging and fruitful musical life. ..Beamish's generous foregrounding of her personal world,... —
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This is a wonderful addition to a strong field of baroque performances, technically assured and deeply considered. It’s a gentle, introspective album: for me it will be the perfect Sonatas and... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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this disc is a particularly welcome unveiling of four rapturous sacred works…the music is a pleasant fusion of the rigorous Baroque idiom…and the then-fashionable style gallant, characterised... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 22nd April 2016
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2016
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Samuel Wesley: Sacred Choral Music
The Choir of Holy Sepulchre, The National Musicians' Church, Toby Ward
Conductor Toby Ward captures a sense of freshness and drama in the big-boned verse anthems that lie at the heart of this recording, underlining the quasi-operatic qualities that so discombobulated... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2024
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Gabriel Jackson: The Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ
All tracks are premiere recordings
Guy Cutting (tenor), Emma Tring (soprano), Francesca Millar (soprano), Isabelle Blain (alto), Samuel Costello (tenor), Freddie Crowley (bass), Nicholas Trapp (bass)
Choir of Merton College, Oxford, Benjamin Nicholas
This outstanding recording of Gabriel Jackson’s retelling of the Passion story bursts with energy... Jackson’s engaging score is richly colourful and his instrumental writing proves a particular... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2019, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2019, Choral & Song Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2020, Winner - Choral
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The Past & I: 100 Years of Thomas Hardy
RecommendedMusic & Arrangements by Arthur Keegan
Lotte Betts-Dean (mezzo), James Girling (guitar), Ligeti Quartet
The Ligeti Quartet ’s performance resonates with commitment and eloquence as Keegan highlights the tensions between man and nature, art and mortality, interlaying texts by Hardy and Philip Larkin.... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 19th July 2024
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024, Shortlisted - New Work (Elegies for Emma)
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Isolation Songbook
RecommendedHelen Charlston (mezzo-soprano), Michael Craddock (baritone), Alexander Soares (piano)
The results are varied, from comic miniatures to distilled dramas and contemplative outpourings, but together add up to a recital that’s hard to resist, at once fresh and profoundly familiar. —
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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