Delphian
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He addresses that Everest on the landscape of Bach’s keyboard writing, and with characteristically unshowy yet compelling results. He’s up against stiff opposition of course…But there’s an honesty... —
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Hill establishes his voice from the outset with fluid, velvet-toned playing and a predominantly introspective, rather than showy approach...In short, these are exquisitely poetic and, above... —
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Mynstrelles With Straunge Sounds
The Earliest Consort Music For Viols
Clare Wilkinson (mezzo-soprano)
Rose Consort of Viols
Wilkinson’s androgynous, straight tone chafes vividly against the viols – a smooth gloss on a pitted sound that creates necessary variety and beauty in a disc that might easily have been a historical... —
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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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an intriguing series... documented in a lively manner —
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Compelling readings... The recording is detailed with every nuance, every pianissimo and swell, warmly captured. —
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There’s no denying the virtuoso deftness of Orr’s settings for voice and solo double-bass (about the most technically difficult medium any composer could opt for)...and the performances here... —
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Chansons a Plaisir
Music from the time of Adrian le Roy
Frances Cooper (soprano), Gordon Ferries (baroque guitars), Jo Hugh Jones (baritone & guitars) & Marcus Claridge (percussion)
Fires of Love
Frances Cooper whose vocal contribution is quite delicious . Lovely performances, beautiful songs —
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Schnittke: Complete Piano Music
Simon Smith (Steinway model D piano) with Richard Beauchamp and John Cameron
Smith demonstrates complete empathy with Schnittke's distinctive sound-world. His playing has great dramatic immediacy...Altogether these are compelling and utterly persuasive accounts. —
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