Delphian
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The Taste of This Nation
Music by Corbett, Pepsuch, and Shuttleworth
Ciara Hendrick (soprano), Kinga Ujszaszi, Spiritato
Spiritato has hit a home run in several ways with this album. First, the orchestra sounds exquisite. The strings are warm, and the ensemble playing is tight and clean, but still responsive.... —
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Kitchen despatches each and all with performances that blend aesthetic nuance with bravura showmanship…Delphian’s vivid record sound adds to the considerable pleasure. —
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a supreme achievement … Every one a gem, as are Kitchen’s stylishly bright performances’ —
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Highly-charged dissonances, strange harmonic progressions paint words that implore and plead and cry out for mercy. Though they are as dramatic as Gesualdo’s madrigals, these sacred works inhabit... —
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Die Vögel unter dem Himmel
Heinrich Schütz - Sacred Choral Music
John Kitchen (solo organ), Edward Batting (organ)
The National Youth Choir of Great Britain, Mike Brewer
On the whole the choral singing is admirably disciplined and contoured. The most impressive passages tend to be the fullest homophonic sections which close pieces; but "So fahr ich hin zu Jesu... —
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A major player in bringing European influences into postRestoration England, Pelham Humfrey deserves a wider audience. These agile and spirited performances do him excellent service. —
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The lively mind evidenced in Lucy Carolan’s excellent booklet note is mirrored in these performances, which abound in vigour. —
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Matthew Kaner: Chamber Music
Benjamin Baker, Daniel Lebhart, Matthias Balzat, Guy Johnston (cello), Goldfield Ensemble, Mark Simpson (clarinet)
This fine debut album from London-born Matthew Kaner (b1986) reveals a composer deftly able to draw the listener into his far-reaching imaginative world...While each piece is strongly evocative,... —
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Glenton’s own diminutions are gently and lightly patted into the larger musical line. And together with Wollston’s calm, the whole thing sways like a dance made of chiffon. —
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Special offer. American Music for Marimba
Trevino - Ewazen - Séjourné - Burritt
Calum Huggan (marimba)
in various ways each of the pieces here – all short bar one, and performed with an elegant, easy virtuosity by Huggan – owes as much to popular songwriting as to traditional classical forms.... —
