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There's no doubt that former chorister Muhly not only understands his forces but is excited and energised by their expressive potential, which he tests and teases to wonderfully contrasting... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2026, Editor's Choice
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With his resplendent mezzo-soprano-ish tone quality and ease of vocal production, the much-awarded Hugh Cutting represents a new level in the evolution of the countertenor voice in this debut... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2025, Editor's Choice
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The New York Times, Best Classical Music Albums of 2025
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Kenny lacks neither extensive playing experience in chamber, orchestral or operatic contexts nor a brilliant musical imagination. She brings both to bear on these performances of ‘old and new... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2020, Finalist - Instrumental
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all three works benefit from the translucent, unsentimental playing of the Mithras Trio...Come for the Lisney; stay for the Shostakovich and Korngold, and see what you think. —
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Special offer. Makedonissimo
by Pande Shahov in collaboration with Simon Trpčeski
Simon Trpčeski, Hidan Mamudov, Aleksandar Krapovski, Alexander Somov, Vlatko Nushev
Don’t be fooled by the playful title…[Makedonissimo] is is a serious affair shaped by input from ethnomusicologists and ultimately chiselled into form by a composer. The sound of the kaval and... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2020
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Kato has an impeccable sense of rhythm and a capacity for concentration —
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Special offer. Stravinsky: The Soldier's Tale
Harrison Birtwistle (The Soldier), George Benjamin (The Devil), Dame Harriet Walter (narrator)
Royal Academy of Music, Oliver Knussen
It’s recorded in a way to convey to the maximum both the poetic detail and the expert pacing of Knussen’s finely-pointed reading, and to give full rein to Dame Harriet’s wonderfully free-spirited... —
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The Times Records of the Year, 2017
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Special offer. Who Are These Angels?
New Choral Music by James MacMillan
Cappella Nova, Alan Tavener
Approachable without being apologetic, emotional but with a sense of dignity, the best of these works can both delight and challenge...Everything is performed with elegance and the requisite... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2012, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. MacMillan: Consecration
Alan Tavener, Rebecca Tavener (soloist), Graham Neal (soloist), Louise Eekelaar (soloist), Michaela Haslam (soloist), Libby Crabtree (soloist), Steven McIntyre, Cappella Nova
the Scottish-based choir once more brings a rare beauty and depth of sound to MacMillan’s radiant music. At the album’s heart are the five Culham Motets...Previously unrecorded, the cycle makes... —
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Special offer. Bach: Partitas (Re-Imagined for Small Orchestra by Thomas Oehler)
Royal Academy of Music Soloists Ensemble, Soloists from The Glenn Gould School, Trevor Pinnock
As is so often the case with arrangements of familiar repertoire, particularly canonical Germanic tonal music, a change of performing media reveals the works anew...Oehler’s craft reveals the... —
