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Liszt: The Complete Songs Volume 1 - Matthew Polenzani
Matthew Polenzani (tenor) & Julius Drake (piano)
Polenzani is evidently a tenor of the finest quality: a lyric voice, sweet and ingratiating, with the capacity to ring out excitingly, gloriously easy on high but with a perfectly adequate body... —
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Few players of this music combine quite such clarity and articulation with shimmering sparkle and virtuosic flair: this is sophisticated pianist...You will be left either wanting to listen again,... —
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Delectatio angeli
Music of love, longing & lament
Catherine Bott (soprano), Pavlo Beznosiuk (fiddle), Mark Levy (fiddle)
These performances must rank amongst Bott's best (and that's saying something), her range sometimes impinging in pitch and timbre on alto/counter-tenor territory. Whatever the mood, and whether... —
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Hewitt plays what sound to be an early piano and is accompanied by a small, orchestra, vibrato-less and rather bleak, which she conducts. I found her playing tasteful without being distinctive —
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Psalms from St Paul's - Vol 11
Psalms 119, 136 to 138
Huw Williams (organ)
St Paul's Cathedral Choir, John Scott
The singing is of the same high standard maintained throughout the series; the organ accompaniments are distinguished —
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Buxtehude: Seven Sonatas, Op. 1 BuxWV 252-258
Convivium: Elizabeth Wallfisch (violin), Richard Tunnicliffe (cello), Paul Nicholson (harpsichord)
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The English Stage Jig
Musical comedies from the 16th and 17th centuries for the Merriment and Delight of Wise Men and the Ignorant
The City Waites, Lucie Skeaping (director)
These performers are well-renowned for championing the popular music of earlier centuries… the singing and instrumental performances are as genially accomplished as ever with The Waites. —
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Thanks principally to Stephen Layton's advocacy, Pawel Lukaszewski's reputation is growing rapidly, and rightly so. All the performers evince an emotional commitment to the content as well... —
