Deutsche Grammophon
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Armstrong’s playing is both expressive and technically brilliant, a combination here in constant demand as the ornamentation is intricate and often dizzyingly fast. And they run the emotional... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Critics' Choice 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2021, Editor's Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2021
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Presto Recording of the Week, 17th December 2021
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The recital's radiant heart is Sheppard's Media Vite, but there are more highlights to come, including an outstanding reading of Holst's Nunc Dimittis, the flowing textures of Harris's Bring... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2008, Choral Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2007, Choral & Song Choice
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She soars the heights and plumbs the depths with fitting ardour...it is hard not to be swept away by such intensity felt and highly dramatic readings...[Pitzl] and his crack instrumental ensemble... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Shortlisted - Recital
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2010, Choral & Song Choice
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His is a gorgeous voice, imparting heft and seriousness in the most solemn moments (Tu se' morta') and zest in the outgoing ones ('Vi ricorda, O boschi ombrosi'). —
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Julian Bream plays Dowland and Bach
Edith Steinbauer (treble viol), Beatrice Reichert (alto viol), Frieda Litschauer (tenor viol), Ernst Knava (bass viol), Julian Bream (lute/guitar)
The Golden Age Singers, Margaret Field-Hyde
…Bream's genius transcends all. Whether it's in the astonishing intensity of Dowland's Melancholy Galliard and Forlorn Hope Fancy or in the finely proportioned sense of pace and drama in Bach's... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2008, Re-issue of the Month
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Patricia Petibon: Nouveau Monde
Baroque Arias & Songs
Patricia Petibon (soprano)
La Cetra Baroque Orchestra, Andrea Marcon
Conquest is one theme, confession another; the whole a breakneck A-Z of Baroque song from airs de cours to zarzuela. —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2013, Editor's Choice
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Freezing
Emily D'Angelo (mezzo), Sophia Muñoz (piano), Bruno Helstroffer (guitar), Jonas Niederstadt (bass, synthesizer), Fridolin Blumer (double bass)
The most striking moments on ‘Freezing’ belong to those songs which fit neatly into neither the folk nor the classical mould. Magical weblike melodies are woven throughout Cecilia Livingston’s... —
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2025, Female Singer of the Year
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Albrecht Mayer & The King's Singers: Let It Snow
RecommendedAlbrecht Mayer (oboe)
The King’s Singers
More cheese than a Wensleydale-and-cranberry sandwich, then, but it’s all done with bags of panache and good humour – the perfect tree-dressing or present-wrapping soundtrack. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 9th December 2013
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Music of the Spheres
Iestyn Davies (countertenor), Pekka Kuusisto (violin), Sam Swallow (vocalist), Aurora Orchestra, Nicholas Collon
Adès's appropriately stratospheric writing is despatched with fearless aplomb by Pekka Kuusisto. The main attractions, though, are an electric Jupiter Symphony (played from memory, and it shows... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2020
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