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Can be recommended without reservation … the wonderful By beauteous softness, from Queen Mary’s Birthday Ode of 1689, given this performance, I could quite easily listen to for ever … there’s... — More…
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Countertenor duets by Purcell & Blow
James Bowman (countertenor) & Michael Chance (countertenor)
The King’s Consort, Robert King
Such complementary voices, Chance fine-drawn, Bowman a touch richer, more coloured, are ideal in this selection of inventive duets. Blow's Ode on Purcell's death is particularly fine, intensely... — More…
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Elegy – Countertenor duets by Purcell & Blow
Iestyn Davies, James Hall (countertenors)
The King’s Consort, Robert King
Davies is the headline artist on the cover; but in fact he duets with James Hall on notably equal terms, the two voices subtly differing in timbre but compatible in articulation and expressivity.... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2019, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Baroque Vocal
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Shortlisted - Recital
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The Artistry of Emma Kirkby Emma Kirkby (soprano) with Jakob Lindberg (lute), Lars Ulrik Mortensen (harpsichord), Anthony Rooley (lute), Agnès Mellon (soprano), John Abberger (oboe), Thomas Georgi (viola d’amore), Lucas Harris (lute) & Mime Yamahiro Brinkmann (cello)
London Baroque, Royal Academy of Music Baroque...
…it's often in the modest-looking pieces that she's at her most compelling. Robert Johnson's Full Fathom Five is 109 seconds of breathtaking stillness and beauty, Böddecker's Natus est Jesu... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2009, Re-issue of the Month
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The instrumental playing under Bertrand Cuiller is supple and vivid, but the real star of the show here is soprano Rachel Redmond: she sings an Akeyrode drinking song with bright swagger and... — More…
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Ballads within a Dream
Hille Perl (viola da gamba), Andreas Arend (lute), Clare Wilkinson (mezzo-soprano), Veronika Skuplik (violin)
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Mead’s theatrical experience comes through most clearly in his dramatic rendering of some of the songs from the odes…The stage songs are often presented with an affecting fluidity, as in William... — More…
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A Painted Tale Nicholas Phan (tenor), Michael Leopold (lute), Ann-Marie Morgan (viola da gamba)
here's a disc disc to remember come all those end-of-year round-ups... There's a directness to Phan's delivery, a clarity to his diction that has previously found its home in Britten's text-driven... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2015, Editor's Choice
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Counter-tenor Duets and Song Purcell and his contemporaries
Ryland Angel (counter-tenor), Mark Chambers (counter-tenor), Laurence Cummings (h'chord, organ), Taro Takeuchi (lute, theorbo, baroque guitar), Reiko Ichise (bass viol), Becky Davies & Laura Hird (recorder), Rodolfo Richter and Claire Duff (violin) and Emma Alter (viola)
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