Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Vox Luminis’s consummate mastery of polyphonic textures, plangent sonorities and contoured phrasing is profoundly beautiful; the five soloists and five additional ‘ripieno’ singers declaim text... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th August 2016
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2016, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Western Wind
RecommendedMusic By John Taverner & Court Music For Henry VIII
Emily Van Evera (soprano), Charles Daniels (tenor)
Taverner Choir & Players, Andrew Parrott
The Western Wynde Mass nicely contrasts with The Tallis Scholars’ recording, being incisive and brisk where Peter Phillips’s reading is smoother and more leisurely. Parrott is perhaps more persuasive... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2016, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Winner - Early Music
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Bach, J S: St John Passion, BWV245
RecommendedWerner Güra (Evangelist), Johannes Weisser (bass arias/Christus), Andrew Redmon (Petrus), Johannes Schendel (Pilatus), Sunhae Im (soprano arias), Benno Schachtner (alto arias), Sebastian Kohlhepp (tenor arias), Fabienne Weiss (Ancilla), Minsub Hong (Servus)
Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin, RIAS...
Clarity of sound and purpose distinguish [this] recording…woodwind are placed in front of the strings, allowing for exceptional detail in the turba choruses [while] the soloists sing throughout,... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 25th March 2016
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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International Classical Music Awards, 2017, Winner - Baroque Vocal
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Handel: Messiah
RecommendedErin Wall (soprano), Elizabeth DeShong (mezzo-soprano), Andrew Staples (tenor), John Relyea (bass-baritone)
Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis
Astonishingly well controlled…the solo voices are rich and weighty…[the] flute provides a charming obbligato to ‘How beautiful are the feet’, while the tenor’s ‘Thy rebuke…’ is intensely moving…a... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd December 2016
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2017, Choral & Song Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Nominee - Choral Performance
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JS Bach & Telemann: Sacred Cantatas
RecommendedPhilippe Jaroussky (countertenor)
Freiburger Barockorchester
[Jaroussky’s] manner is distinctive, not so much the honeyed, godlike flow of Andreas Scholl…as the vulnerable and reactive human soul declaiming recitatives with urgent detail…[he is] compelling…the... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 14th October 2016
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Nominee - Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Beethoven: Missa Solemnis in D major, Op. 123
RecommendedLaura Aikin (soprano), Bernarda Fink (alto), Johannes Chum (tenor) & Ruben Drole (bass)
Concentus Musicus Wien & Arnold Schoenberg Chor, Nikolaus Harnoncourt
He has achieved something remarkable, a performance that is heaven-storming despite the small forces employed. The key is that every singer in the chorus and solo quartet has been encouraged... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 3rd June 2016
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2016, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Shortlisted - Choral
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Building A Library, July 2022, Also Recommended
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In War & Peace
RecommendedHarmony Through Music
Joyce DiDonato (mezzo)
Il Pomo d'Oro, Maxim Emelyanychev
Though the top of her voice is wiry under pressure, her coloratura is tightly sprung, her diction is flawless, and her phrasing of the often underrated poetry is sympathetic and sophisticated…Il... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2016, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Winner - Recital
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ECHO Klassik Awards, 2017, Winner
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Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Nominee - Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Opera, January 2017, Recording of the Month
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Offer,
Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1-9 RecommendedAnnette Dasch (soprano), Eva Vogel (mezzo), Christian Elsner (tenor), Dimitry Ivashchenko (bass)
Berliner Philharmoniker, Rundfunkchor Berlin, Sir Simon Rattle
These performances are intensely alive and immensely invigorating. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 13th May 2016
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2016, Disc of the month
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Diapason d’Or de l’Année, 2016, Winner - Musique Symphonique
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
5 CDs + 2 Blu-ray Videos + Blu-ray Audio
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A spooky, flickering account of Elgar’s Owls underlines the ability of Short and his outstandingly responsive singers to create riveting atmosphere, and communicate to the listener the import... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, Choral & Song Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Nominee - Choral Performance
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this disc is a particularly welcome unveiling of four rapturous sacred works…the music is a pleasant fusion of the rigorous Baroque idiom…and the then-fashionable style gallant, characterised... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 22nd April 2016
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2016
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