Coro - up to 20% off
Until 23rd September, we are offering up to 20% off CORO titles on CD, SACD, DVD and download.
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Special offer. Mozart: Requiem
Elizabeth Watts (soprano), Phyllis Pancella (mezzo-soprano), Andrew Kennedy (tenor) & Eric Owens (bass-baritone), & Robert Nairn (double bass obbligato)
Handel and Haydn Society, Harry Christophers
[Owens's] instrument sounds magisterial as it rolls along, matching well with the three remaining soloists. Elizabeth Watts is a luminous soprano. Phyllis Pancella can rely on the almost contralto-like... —
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Nosky is clearly the personality at the centre of these performances, audibly directing from the front, in contrast to (for example) Isabelle Faust, whose voice emerges as if organically from... —
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Special offer. Mozart: Coronation Mass
Teresa Wakim (soprano), Paula Murrihy (mezzo-soprano), Thomas Cooley (tenor) & Sumner Thompson (baritone)
Handel and Haydn Society, Harry Christophers
The singing of the Boston Handel and Haydn Society Chorus is spirited throughout, with Harry Christophers highlighting some of the work's most expressive moments, notably the agonised Crucifixus,... —
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Special offer. Mozart: Mass in C minor, K427 'Great'
Gillian Keith (soprano), Tove Dahlberg (mezzo soprano), Thomas Cooley (tenor) & Nathan Berg (bass-baritone)
Handel and Haydn Society, Harry Christophers
[Christophers] fields an impressive period-instrument orchestra, and a game and regularly strong choir...Of the soloists, the finest is Gillian Keith, consistently graceful and utterly winning... —
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Special offer. Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 26 & 86 & Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 3
Aisslinn Nosky (violin)
Handel and Haydn Society, Harry Christophers
[Symphony No. 26] Christophers presents the powerful, restless first movement perfectly, the raucous valveless horns of its close perfectly judged. The first plainchant melody provides the first... —
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In this context I hear Nosky, the Handel and Haydn Society’s gifted concertmaster, as a forthright, rhythmically pungent player. —
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Christophers draws a gold-standard execution from his choir. —
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Special offer. Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 49 & 87
Aisslin Nosky (violin) & Max Mandel (viola)
Handel and Haydn Society, Harry Christophers
Christophers once again demonstrates that his 203-year-old band are in rude health. —
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Special offer. The Sixteen - Sounds Sublime
Includes some of The Sixteen’s most celebrated recordings in this beautiful 2CD digi-pack set
The Sixteen, With the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, With the BBC Philharmonic, Harry Christophers
