Delphian
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The pianist does full justice to the five women whose works on this disc add up to one of the most unhackneyed, unpredictable, well-constructed, musically diverse and interpretatively gratifying... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2024, Editor's Choice
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Čičić acquits himself well in the tricky violin writing, and the lean-sounding Illyria Consort is on its toes. —
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2019
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In Sorrow's Footsteps
Music by Gabriel Jackson, Palestrina, Allegri and James MacMillan
The Marian Consort, Rory McCleery
The sharp, jabbing gestures at the opening of Gabriel Jackson’s new setting of the Stabat Mater…announce that wilting introspection is by no means the composer’s default position in his response... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, July 2018
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This is an unabashedly specialist release...But what riches for those already inclined to luxuriate in the heavy cloth and densely woven sonic thread of Robert Fayrfax’s choral music...there’s... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Early Music
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Johann Jakob Walther: Scherzi da Violino
Bojan Čičić (violin), The Illyria Consort (early music ensemble)
Čičić makes light work of Walther’s virtuosic gauntlet, audaciously secure in the triple and quadruple stopping that punctuates passages drawing on elaborate bowing and left-hand techniques…[his]... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2022
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Čičić and his Illyria Consort play these Sonate da Camera with expressive warmth and sensibility. The continuo cade varies its colours and textures according to taste and perceived musical requirements,... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, July 2019
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Bob Chilcott: Christmas Oratorio
RecommendedNeal Davies (bass-baritone), Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), Nick Pritchard (tenor), The Choir of Merton College, Oxford, Benjamin Nicholas
Chilcott uses the Evangelist, and Olivia Jageurs’s accompanying nimble harp, to give us those moments of rapt stillness that mark that certain Christmas magic, and also to change the flow amidst... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st December 2023
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Laurence Osborn: Tomb!
Siwan Rhys, Mahan Esfahani (early keyboard instruments), 12 Ensemble, GBSR Duo, Clement Power
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Listen. It is here
Song Cycles by Edward Picton-Turbervill
Harriet Burns (soprano), Helen Charlston (mezzo-soprano), Alexander Chance (countertenor), Elgan Llŷr Thomas (tenor), Edward Picton-Turbervill (piano)
Ambition is clearly Edward Picton-Turbervill's middle name! What other young composer would aspire to set to music poems by Rilke, Cavafy, Hildegard of Bingen and Harold Pinter? And then make... —
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Cantique de Noël
French Music For Christmas From Berlioz To Debussy
Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, Geoffrey Webber
An academically and stylistically fertile album. —
