Delphian
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O Virgo Benedicta
Music of Marian Devotion from Spain’s Century of Gold
The Marian Consort: Gwendolen Martin, Emma Walshe (sopranos), Nicholas Scott (tenor), Steffan Jones (baritone), Christopher Borrett (bass) & Rory McCleery (countertenor/director)
The Oxford-based mixed choir makes a bold, bright sound with strong individual voices. —
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Henry VIII On Tour: Music From Tudor Royal Progresses
David De Winter, Toby Carr, Ensemble Pro Victoria, Toby Ward, Aileen Henry, New Vocal Ensemble, Magnus Williamson
the sum of the parts form[s] an aural depiction of Henry VIII’s annual progresses every bit as vivid and colourful as Hans Holbein the Younger’s famous portrait. —
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Special offer. Cunningham, T: The Okavango Macbeth
Beth Mackay, Rónan Busfield, Andrew McTaggart, Nicholas Ellenbogen, Michael Bawtree, Nicholas Morris, Jamie Rock, Jessica Leary & Lucinda Stuart-Grant
Mr McFall’s Chamber, Edinburgh Studio Opera chorus & Mr McFall’s Chamber
Vocally Lady Macbeth's is the most memorable music: Beth Mackay combines a pleasing tonal clarity with a cutting, calculating edge...Purists may sniff, but there aren't enough new operas like... —
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The result is an enjoyable recital featuring concert and salon pieces one is not afraid to describe as utterly delightful. Key is Whittingham’s unsentimental yet beautifully expressive playing. —
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Working in a broadly traditional style, he explores a harmonic world of blurred but euphonious richness, the writing skilled and unfailingly effective…These beautifully shaped performances by... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2018
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This exquisite late-Renaissance Portuguese polyphonic repertoire is as richly expressive as it is politically poised…This beautiful new album from The Marian Consort is surely one of the best... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2018, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. I and Silence: Women’s Voices in American Song
Marta Fontanals-Simmons (mezzo), Lana Bode (piano)
[‘Why do they shut me out of heaven?’] is a good example of Fontanals-Simmons’s tendency to prioritise solidity of vocal production and excellent diction over flashy point-making and expressive... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2019
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11 singers of clarity and colour glitter and glow... a sonic festive feast ... The addition of local dance rhythms brings a rustic earthiness to Renaissance Mass from Mexico. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 27th November 2020
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the disc offers a lively collection of McGuire's chamber music. Much of the disc is highly affirming, notably Euphoria (1980), a delicious, efferescent work composed at the height of Cold War... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2015, Editor's Choice
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