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Tarik O'Regan - Threshold of Night
Music for Voices & Strings
Company of Voices & Conspirare, Craig Hella Johnson
It's difficult to describe O'Regan's music without recourse to smiles based on light. His writing for the upper voices, especially, shimmers and shines, often suggesting outpourings of celestial... —
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The Trio Wanderer make out a more-than-plausible case for both pieces: this is well-made music that never outstays its welcome. —
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Given the odd transmission of John Dowland's lute music, any 'complete' recording of it's inevitably going to include a fair number of works that can have had little to do with him. Paul O'Dette... —
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Lugansky finds ways to ravish the ear without ever letting us settle into monotony…Beneath the shimmering surface colours, Lugansky is alive to structural clarity without ever becoming impersonal... —
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The smoky colours and grainy edges of flamenco singer Estrella Morente’s voice add an authentic Spanish flavour to Falla and Lorca’s folk inspired songs. She’s deftly partnered by Perianes. —
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Rhinemaidens
Bernarda Fink (mezzo) * Ständchen, Anneke Scott, Joseph Walters, Olivier Picon, Chris Larkin (horns)
Ensemble Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon
The vocal ensemble Pygmalion, resident at the Opera de Bordeaux, are suitably seductive sirens – and even Bernarda Fink makes a cameo appearance in Schubert’s D920 Grillparzer Ständchen, her... —
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Gura and pianist Christoph Berner and alert to every nuance of text and music in this evocative account using a historic piano which brings a fragile, sepia-tinted quality. —