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Sherratt possesses that rare gift – a genuine bass voice that carries its lyrical, expressive clarity from its ringing high notes right down to a full-toned basso profundo delivered without... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Shortlisted - Song
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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Raymond Yiu: The World Was Once All Miracle
RecommendedRoderick Williams, Andrew Watts, BBC Symphony Orchestra, David Robertson, Sir Andrew Davis, Edward Gardner
This terrifically engaging disc of music by Raymond Yiu opens with a bang. Subtitled ‘symphonic game for orchestra’, The London Citizen Exceedingly Injured (2012) nigh-on shimmers with invention...With... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, February 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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an exceptionally imaginative and satisfying piece of programming —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 19th August 2016
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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No disc of Canadian organ music would be complete without Healey Willan’s Introduction, Passacaglia and Fugue…Mahon gives a sweeping performance that culminates in a tumultuous fugue…Piquant... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2020, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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The voices of Ensemble Pro Victoria really are world- class and their tuning is radiant, but the overall texture can veer occasionally towards the weighty because of the doubled bass line. —
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This musical kaleidoscope turns through dark hued reflections and light-filled reveries...Technically, the Rose Consort is well-nigh flawless, and these restrained, refined readings, informed... —
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Ian Venables: Requiem & Herbert Howells: Anthems for Choir & Orchestra
Eppie Sharp, Aine Smith, Edmund Saddington, LucyAnne Fletcher, Choir of Merton College Oxford, Oxford Contemporary Sinfonia, Benjamin Nicholas
This isn’t music to shake mountains, but its craftsmanship, sincerity and ability to stir the more tender emotions – well reflected in this performance – remains undeniably appealing. —
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‘La Notte’: Concertos and Pastorales for Christmas Night
RecommendedBojan Čičić (violin), The Illyria Consort
This joyful album brings together 17th and 18th-century music written for Christmas and its related Catholic feasts...One for every December! —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 25th November 2022
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Gabriel Jackson: The Christmas Story
Oxford Contemporary Sinfonia, The Girl Choristers of Merton College, Oxford, François Cloete, Owen Chan, Choir of Merton College Oxford, Benjamin Nicholas
There’s often a strangeness to The Christmas Story – of instrumentation, style, text – that helps refocus the ear on a story blurred by over-familiarity. —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2024, Editor's Choice
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Perhaps the ideal consort for this repertoire, the Marians bring an intimate, individually passionate flavour to Byrd’s Latin works. Nimble, lively vocal colour, warmth in the soprano (all too... —
