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Handel: Joshua, HWV 64
RecommendedEmma Kirkby, James Bowman & John Mark Ainsley
New College Choir & King's Consort, Robert King
With first-rate casts and careful attention to Handel's original texts, King has blown the dust off some magnificent music —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Monteverdi - The Sacred Music 1
Carolyn Sampson, Rebecca Outram (sopranos), Roger Covey-Crump, Nicholas Mulroy, Daniel Auchincloss (high tenors), Charles Daniels, James Gilchrist (tenors), Peter Harvey, Robert Evans (basses)
The King's Consort, Robert King
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If you know that feeling of expectancy, of vast potential energy, at the outset of a great symphony, you'll surely respond to the opening of Simpson's Ninth – and be wholly engrossed. You'll... —
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Gramophone Awards, 1989, Winner - Contemporary
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Admirers of Canadian pianist Angela Hewitt's lightly articulated and elegantly phrased Bach playing won't be disappointed by this recording.
These qualities characterise the playing of each... —Awards:
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Miserere
A sequence of music for Lent, St Joseph, and the Annunciation
Peter Stevens (organ), William Gaunt (bass) & Peter Stevens (organ)
Westminster Cathedral Choir, Martin Baker
This is a disc for those who love the acoustic, the atmosphere and the musical traditions of the Roman Catholic Cathedral in London...This is a large choir, very good at big effects. The pacing... —
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The Romantic Piano Concerto 24 - Vianna da Motta
Artur Pizarro (piano)
Orquestra Gulbenkian, Martyn Brabbins
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Liszt: The Complete Songs Volume 2 - Angelika Kirchschlager
RecommendedAngelika Kirchschlager (mezzo-soprano) & Julius Drake (piano)
Kirchschlager's rich, resonant mezzo finds beauties everywhere on this disc, from heights of drama to imtimacies of reflection, and at every turn Drake is with her. I particularly like the way... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2013, Vocal Award Winner
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Fauré - La Chanson d'Eve and other songs
RecommendedJanet Baker (mezzo soprano) & Geoffrey Parsons (piano)
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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The Romantic Cello Concerto, Vol. 3: Stanford
Gemma Rosefield (cello)
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Manze
Stanford's sturdy, Brahmsian Cello Concerto and the folksong-rich Third Rhapsody are the highlights here, superbly played by Gemma Rosefield. —
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Sublime music of relinquishment and rejoicing prefaces the six-part Missa Cantate, directed with magisterial spaciousness by Martin Baker. The recording offers a nave’s-ear perspective. —
