Hyperion
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Central to this valuable anthology of Mathias's church music is the tautly concentrated Missa brevis of 1973. It’s the outer movements that are most impressive, the Kyrie drawn tensely together... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2009, Editor's Choice
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The Romantic Piano Concerto 32 - Moscheles
Howard Shelley (piano/conductor)
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
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This CD was a revelation - this is great music played with impeccable artistry and flawlessly recorded, one of the best solo piano records I've heard in the past ten years —
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George Tsontakis's Man of Sorrows is a six-movement mediation of nearly 40 minutes' duration on Christ's crucifixion. Brilliantly written for the keyboard and scintillatingly orchestrated,... —
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These new versions from Stephen Hough and the Takács Quartet strike me as even better, and in more modern sound … in both Quintet and Quartet the performers give bright, focused, alert, almost... —
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Their style of singing – perfectly blended vocal harmony, exquisite tuning, inventive phrasing, delicately poised textural clarity - provides a magical accompaniment to the warmth of the Christmas... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Issue 2023, Recording of the Month
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Bach, J S: Christmas Oratorio, BWV248
RecommendedKatherine Watson (soprano), Iestyn Davies (countertenor), James Gilchrist (tenor) & Matthew Brook (bass)
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment & Trinity College Choir Cambridge, Stephen Layton
Layton unwraps it with all due festive pomp and circumstance...In a work incontestably smitten with the alto voice, Iestyn Davies triumphs...Gilchrist's relaxed and lyrical Evangelist maintains... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd December 2013
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Brian: Agamemnon & Symphonies Nos 6 & 12
RecommendedJohn Findon (Agamemnon), Eleanor Dennis (Clytemnestra), Stephanie Wake-Edwards (Cassandra), Robert Murray (Watchman), Clive Bayley (Herald/Old Man)
English National Opera Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins
If anyone can convince us of the worth of this one-act drama of Aeschylus’s tragedy of Agamemnon’s last bloody bath it's Martyn Brabbins, a doughty champion of Brian’s music...All credit to... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Stephan Genz's light, warm and cultured baritone is especially fine in reflecting the ghost voices and moonlight serenades of Mahler's folk-inspired anthology. Yet more attack is surely needed... —
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Judith Bingham: Choral Music
Jonathan Vaughn (organ), Finn Lacey (treble)
Wells Cathedral Choir, Matthew Owens
The whole setting memorably commingles an anxious, questing quality with glimpses of certitude and placidity, a balance sensitively struck in this assured Wells Cathedral performance. —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2013, Editor's Choice
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