Harmonia Mundi
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…trio Wanderer…approach Schubert not so much as an early Romantic, but rather as a fantastically imaginative and generous Classicist… The sense of sparkling, intimate exchange between the three... —
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Building a Library, April 2016, First Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2008, Chamber Choice
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If not texturally pared down, this is a journey where the 86-year-old Schütz withdraws from the world in a lexicon of finely drawn plainchants, antique modes, taut contrapuntal and antiphonal... —Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 7th May 2007
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2007, Editor's Choice
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The singers make a beautifully balanced sound with impressive fluency across each style...there is a pleasing tension between a consort blend and the vital quirkiness of individual voices...Jourdain’s... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2018, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2019, Finalist - Early Music
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So bold are Glenn Gould's fingerprints on the score, not just in the intricate decorations but also the colours, the phrasing, the idiosyncratic articulation, that it is more an arrangement... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2015, Editor's Choice
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It is hard to recall a more relentlessly driven performance of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony than this newcomer...especially in the outer movements. It is not that it sets any new land-speed records,... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 18th September 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2020
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Here's a very attractively prepared menu whose main course is the Stabatmater for countertenor and strings.
Hors-d'oeuvres and side-dishes consist of a ripieno concerto (RV114), a chamber cantata... —Awards:
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Gramophone Awards, 1996, Winner - Baroque Vocal
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The expertise of the Stile Antico group in this repertory is not in doubt and, as always, these singers give us splendid performances. Gibbon's O Clap Your Hand, for example, has a sure-footed... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th July 2013
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Shortlisted - Early Music
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His playing of everything here is exemplary; if one were ever tempted to say a recording was 'definitive' then this is the time...Playing such as Lewis's expands and extends my ideas about what... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Instrumental Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2012, Editor's Choice
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Schubert: Schwanengesang
RecommendedMark Padmore (tenor) & Paul Lewis (piano), with Richard Watkins (horn)
This is a wonderful recording, two supreme Schubertians working in perfect harmony. Odd as it might sound, I think that this disc is valuable above all for Paul Lewis's stupendous playing. Not... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th September 2011
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2011, Editor's Choice
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Telemann: Passion Oratorio 'Mich vom Stricke meiner Sünden' ('Brockes Passion'), TWV 5:1
RecommendedBirgitte Christensen, soprano (Tochter Zion I, Gläubige Seele I, Maria, 3. Magd), Lydia Teuscher, soprano (Tochter Zion II, Gläubige Seele II, 2. Magd), Marie-Claude Chappuis, mezzosoprano (Judas, Gläubige Seele III, 1. Magd), Donát Havár, tenor (Petrus, Pilatus, Gläubige Seele IV, Hauptmann), Daniel...
…Jacobs…has mustered, with characteristic discernment, a highly responsive cast of soloists. Daniel Behle is a communicative Evangelist, responding alertly to Telemann's elegantly shaped recitative…... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 19th October 2009
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2010, Choral Finalist
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