Delphian
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Benjamin Britten: Canticles
James Way (tenor), Natalie Burch (piano), Lotte Betts-Dean (mezzo), Annemarie Federle (horn), Hugh Cutting (countertenor), Ross Ramgobin (baritone), Alis Huws (harp)
In ‘Canticle I’ the English tenor James Way is generally fierier than Pears, if a little less punctilious in voicing the melismas Britten typically writes into the vocal part...Interpretively... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2025 Shortlist, Song
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Ina Boyle: Songs
Paula Murrihy (mezzo), Robin Tritschler (tenor), Ben McAteer (baritone), Iain Burnside (piano)
Throughout, Robin Tritschler’s ardent, sometimes piercing tenor gets a good airing, while Paula Murrihy and Ben McAteer ensure tonal variety. And whether Boyle’s piano accompaniments are florid... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2021
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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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Orchestral Anthems Vol. 2: Bairstow | Elgar | Ireland | Stanford | Walton | Wesley
Britten Sinfonia, Choir of Merton College Oxford, Benjamin Nicholas
By the clock, the most substantial work is Walton’s The Twelve which acquired its multicoloured orchestral respray to mark the Westminster Abbey 900th anniversary celebrations. Its opening is... —
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This is ravishing…Webber and the Choir of Gonville & Caius, Cambridge, shimmer and scintillate in conveying Anderson’s broad musical and emotional palette. It is clear that all involved have... —
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2018, Choral & Song Choice
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The Times Records of the Year, 2018
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Many quartets have broken the tradition of single-composer discs. The Castalians do it with top performances and meticulous imagination. —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Nominated - Newcomer
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Ed Lyon sings all three languages with great clarity and alertness to the sense of the words, ornaments his line idiomatically and displays an appealing ease and evenness of voice production... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2019
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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All the usual debates about historically informed performance can be left aside by the power of the music...Mostly sedate in character, Riddle Songs is not so much introverted as contemplative,... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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MacRae wrote the majority of the music on this album especially for Betts-Dean (the daughter of Hamlet composer Brett) after hearing her perform his The Lif of this World a few years ago, and... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, July 2023
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023, Shortlisted - World Premiere Recording (New Work)
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