Delphian
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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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Maxwell Davies’s intensity of expression is here distilled into chamber music, by turns simple and complex, furious and tender…The disc closes with the composer’s very last work, a brief movement... —
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The Times Records of the Year, 2017
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Perhaps the most striking feature of this recording from the Choir of St Mary's Cathedral Edinburgh is the way in which the trebles seem perfectly integrated within the ensemble...The rest of... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2014, Editor's Choice
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In Praise of St Columba
The Sound World of the Celtic Church
Barnaby Brown (triple pipes, lyre)
Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, Geoffrey Webber
Webber and his choristers have produced a generously filled disc that seeks to recreate three distinct sound worlds...Everything is performed with a missionary zeal...hauntingly beautiful. —
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2014, Choral & Song Choice
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Bruckner: Motets
Nicholas Wearne (organ)
Choir of St Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh & RSAMD Brass, Duncan Ferguson
This performance is just superb. It's the kind of disc you want to turn up to full volume and lose yourself in, whether you're of a religious bent or not. Through their crisp, measured phrases,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2011, Editor's Choice
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Judith Weir: Choral Music
recorded in the presence of the composer
Matthew Fletcher and Annie Lydford (organ)
Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, Geoffrey Webber (director)
The freshness and precision of Weir's writing is perfectly matched by the well tuned, clearly articulated singing of Geoffrey Webber's Gonville & Caius Choir...Nearby Jesus College Chapel provides... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2011, Choral & Song Choice
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Unveiled: Britten, Tippett, Gipps, Browne, Thomas
Elgan Llŷr Thomas (tenor), Iain Burnside (piano), Craig Ogden (guitar)
Hearing Britten's Michelangelo Sonnets in Jeremy Sams's direct English translations is quite a revelation, underlining the fact that this is a cycle about a 'love that dare not speak its name'... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2023
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Eddie McGuire - Music for flute, guitar and piano
Nancy Ruffer (flute/piccolo), Abigal James (guitar) & Dominic Saunders (piano)
…McGuire writes in a tonally based, folk-inflected style that seems effortlessly to conjure up those emotions he wishes to evoke without recourse to cliché or glib sentimentality - this is quite... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2006, Editor's Choice
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Duet: Mendelssohn - Schumann - Cornelius
Lucy Crowe (soprano), William Berger (baritone), Iain Burnside (piano)
Lucy Crowe and William Berger are vocal soul mates…this CD is a small miracle to be cherished —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2016, Choral & Song Choice
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Medtner: Songs
Ekaterina Siurina (soprano), Justina Gringyte (mezzo-soprano), Oleksiy Palchykov (tenor), Robin Tritschler (tenor), Rodion Pogossov (baritone), Nikolay Didenko (bass) & Iain Burnside (piano)
Rodion Pogossov has some of the treasures here, best of all the Pushkin (rather than Goethe) Winter Evening with its rich pianistic storm-surge superbly handled, like all else, by Burnside…Medtner... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, February 2018
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