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Mendelssohn - Songs & Duets Volume 3
Sophie Daneman (soprano), Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), Mark Padmore (tenor), Stephan Loges (baritone), Eugene Asti (piano)
There is much to recommend in this collection. First of all, the songs themselves, some deeper than others, are sweet and forthright, and shown to their best advantage by the equally sweet and... —
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Vivaldi - Sacred Music 3
Susan Gritton, Catrin Wyn-Davies (sopranos), Catherine Denley (alto), Charles Daniels (tenor), Neal Davies, Michael George (basses)
King's Consort, Robert King
Here are two of Vivaldi's most extended and impressive psalm settings. These are the singlechoir Dixit Dominus, RV595 (Psalm 110), and double-choir Beatus vir, RV597 (Psalm 112).
Vivaldi set... — -
Enthusiastically recommended —
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Marc-André Hamelin’s technical mastery is legendary … a remarkable disc and certainly not to be missed —
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Lauridsen - Nocturnes
and other choral music
Andrew Lumsden (organ), Morten Lauridsen (piano) & Morten Lauridsen (finger cymbals)
Polyphony & Britten Sinfonia, Stephen Layton
What more can one say of the singing other than that it is Polyphony? This ensemble—surely one of the best small choirs now before the public— invests everything it sings with insight, crisp... —
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Gabrieli, G: The 16 Canzonas and Sonatas from Sacrae Symphoniae, 1597
His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts, Timothy Roberts ('moderator')
Giovanni Gabrieli is arguably the earliest composer to write a significant body of instrumental music to a formula which can be said to be truly idiomatic and timelessly palatable. The Sacraesymphoniae... —
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The Language of Love
Songs of the troubadours and trouvères
Faye Newton (soprano) & Hazel Brooks (vielle)
Duo Trobairitz
For the most part Duo Trobairitz's decisions make musical sense and are effectively enacted. Voice and fiddle interact well; the choice of pieces is well judged. —
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Marvellous stuff and quite impeccably recorded —
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Those wary of an English choir's sensibilities in music almost from another planet should head stright to Tolstiakov's Blagoslovi and Rimsky-Korsakov's Our Father for blissful reassurance of... —
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Vaughan Williams: Hugh the Drover
Rebecca Evans, Bonaventura Bottone, Sarah Walker, Richard Van Allan, Alan Opie, Neil Jenkins
Corydon Singers & Orchestra, The New London Children's Choir, Matthew Best
