Delphian
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Obeying their instructions to the letter means that cellist and pianist convey the meaning of every crescendo or change of tempo, however minimal, proving that tiny details can have huge effects.... —
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The performances are for the most part superb. The amplitude of Burns’s voice, with its bright warmth of tone and wonderful gleam at the top, confers a certain grandeur of scale on the proceedings,... —
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Captain Tobias Hume: A Scottish Soldier
Thomas Walker (tenor) & Alison McGillivray (bass viol, lyre d'amore)
Concerto Caledonia, David McGuinness
delightful and thoroughly enjoyable … unmitigated pleasure. —
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Benjamin Nicholas: The Merton Organ
Benjamin Nicholas (the new Dobson organ of Merton College, Oxford)
Nicholas judges expertly the variety of colours in his performance...The new Dobson organ is a splendid addition to Merton College Chapel. —
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La Pasionaria
Valentina Montoya Martinez (voice), Victor Willena (bandoneon), Cyril Garac (violin)
Mr McFall's Chamber
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The Marian Consort’s performances deliver full value in terms of expressive range and sophistication. Pitch-perfect tuning and immaculately clean ensemble grace the poised accounts of James... —
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It gleams, gives voice to some scrumptiously succulent sounds and inspires Timothy Byram-Wigfield to turn out performances of this wide cross-section of Hollins’s output which are utterly captivating... —
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Set upon the Rood
New music for Choir & Ancient Instruments
Barnaby Brown (triplepipes, aulos), Biil Taylor (lyre), John & Patrick Kenny (chimes)
Choir Of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, Geoffrey Webber
Triplepipe, aulos, carnyx and Loughnashade horn: the odds are firmly against you ever having heard these dinosaurs of musical instrument history in action. This intriguing CD resurrects their... —
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Music from the age of Louis XV
John Kitchen plays the 1769 Taskin harpsichord
John Kitchen (harpsichord)
The 1769 Taskin harpischord, from Edinburgh University's Russell Collection, is a gem, resonant and entrancing. Unequal temperament pushes some intonation to its intriguing limit. —
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a recital that is both entertaining and instructive —
