Harmonies of Devotion
Amy Haworth (soprano), Esther Lay (soprano), Contrapunctus, Owen Rees
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2024, Editor's Choice
The recording opens with Monteverdi’s Cantate Domino. It gets a captivating and sprightly presentation from the choir, accompanied by chamber organ and lute.
Harmonies of Devotion
Amy Haworth (soprano), Esther Lay (soprano), Contrapunctus, Owen Rees
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Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2024, Editor's Choice
The recording opens with Monteverdi’s Cantate Domino. It gets a captivating and sprightly presentation from the choir, accompanied by chamber organ and lute.
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‘Harmonies of Devotion’ is both an exploration of the Italian motet repertory of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries and a celebration of the devotion to this sacred repertory displayed by English antiquarian collectors of the eighteenth century.
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Awards and reviews
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Gramophone MagazineSeptember 2024Editor's Choice
October 2024
The recording opens with Monteverdi’s Cantate Domino. It gets a captivating and sprightly presentation from the choir, accompanied by chamber organ and lute.
September 2024
The Steffani is particularly impressive, from its earworm of an opening to the final peroration, with both languor and extroversion in between. The ensemble here is frequently superb. Rees’s singers ornament their lines subtly.
