Harmonia Mundi
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Music for a while
Purcell songs
Alfred Deller (counter tenor), Wieland Kuijken (bass viol), William Christie (harpsichord)
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The pulsing, fidgety rhythms of Adrian Peacock’s ‘Venite, Gaudete!’ mark the ORA Singers out as a chamber choir of high accomplishment. The technical accuracy is exceptional and the sound smoothly... —
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Krenek - 7 Motets after texts by Franz Kafka
Caroline Stein (soprano) & Philip Mayers (piano)
RIAS Kammerchor, Hans Christoph Rademann
The choral contribution, like that of the expert sound team, cannot be faulted, with the Jesus-Christus-Kirche of Berlin-Dahlem contributing its usual sympathetic lustre. —
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Handel - Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne
Hélène Guilmette (soprano), Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Malcolm E.Bennet (tenor) & Andreas Wolf (bass)
Vocalconsort Berlin & Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Marcus Creed
The unbridled spontaneity of Handel's music… is nowhere more evident than in Dixit Dominus… this is music unsurpassed in his maturity. The 21 voices of the Berlin choir sing with clarity,... —
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Christmas with Bach
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin (early music ensemble), Isabelle Faust (violin), Andreas Scholl, Barbara Schlick (soprano), La Chapelle Royale (early music ensemble), Dorothee Mields (soprano), Ingeborg Danz (contralto), Kristian Bezuidenhout (early keyboard instruments), Antoine Tamestit (viola),...
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Monteverdi: Madrigali guerrieri ed amorosi
The 8th Book of Madrigals
Bernarda Fink, Maria Christina Kiehr, Antonio Abete, Victor Torres, et al.
Concerto Vocale, René Jacobs
The blurb on the jacket says, 'Indispensable', and this is hardly an exaggeration. A complete Book 8 would be enough to whet any Monteverdian's appetite; but fortunately, completeness isn't... —
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Ascendit Deus: Music for Ascensiontide & Pentecost
Peter Harrison, Matthew Jorysz (organ)
Choir of Clare College, Cambridge & The Dmitri Ensemble, Graham Ross
the famous setting of Ascendit Deus by Peter Philips spurts forward like a colt sprung freshly from a stable, the vocal decorations spinning vertiginously round like Monteverdi. It's a bracing... —
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…the effortless quality of the RIAS Kammerchor's sound, transparent, high-soaring, imbues this naïve repertoire with a real sense of joy… —
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