Adam - O Holy Night
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This superior seasonal disc, chiefly of carols (some with organ played by Luke Bond), is satisfyingly divided into three parts: Advent, Christmas and Epiphany. Each starts with a plainchant,... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2019, Christmas Choice
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The Maltese tenor is on top form, his voice rich and fluid, with lovely, pure Latin colours and keen textual enunciation, the result achieving those hard-to-define qualities of conviction and... —
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a genuinely touching, warm-hearted and classy example of the genre – and more imaginative in the choice of repertoire than most. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th December 2023
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Special offer. My Christmas
RecommendedDiana Damrau (soprano), Matthias Höfs (trumpet), NDR Radiophilharmonie, Knabenchor Hanover, Richard Whilds, Riccardo Minasi
Damrau’s two-disc My Christmas ticks some of the same boxes as the legendary Elisabeth Schwarzkopf’s Christmas Album, though Damrau seems more naturally at home in the seasonal idiom...Opinions... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd December 2022
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Female Singer of the Year
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100 Years of Nine Lessons & Carols
RecommendedKing’s College Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury,Sir David Willcocks, Sir Philip Ledger
The opening track from 1958 sets the basic tone: the singing’s precise, sunny and rather dainty. Yet extra gusto soon arrives, and the modern carols Cleobury commissioned certainly stop tradition... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 30th November 2018
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Cantique de Noël
French Music For Christmas From Berlioz To Debussy
Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, Geoffrey Webber
An academically and stylistically fertile album. —
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Pavarotti - The Greatest Hits
Luciano Pavarotti (tenor, vocals), Vienna Opera Chorus, Mirella Freni (soprano), Dame Joan Sutherland (soprano), Stefano "Tellus" Nanni (piano), Kameron Brown (double bass), Michele Centonze (guitar), Fabio Sartoni (drums, drum), Marco Tamburini (trumpet), Piero Odorici (saxophone), Roberto Rossi...
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Hark!
Richard Stoltzman (clarinet), Café (percussion), Emily Mitchell (harp), Eddie Gomez (bass guitar), Jeremy Wall (keyboards), The Boys Choir of Harlem, Allen Pinkney (vocal), Guildhall String Ensemble, Bill Douglas (piano), Kalman Opperman Clarinet Choir, Dave Samuels (percussion), Dave Samuels (vibraphone)
Robert...
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Le jeune amour
Isabelle Valot (soprano), Éléonore Pancrazi (mezzo-soprano), Paul Ji (piano), Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, Romain Dumas
