Hi Res Download, Byrd (composer)
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Unsurprisingly, refinement abounds, though sometimes at the expense of ‘bite’. — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, January 2019
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The New York Times, Recordings of the Year 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2020, Nominee - Early Music
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These works have sometimes been handled as trifles or decorative miniatures, but Iranian-American harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani treats them as profoundly expressive and introspective works.... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2018, Instrumental Choice
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2019, Nominated - Instrumental
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Laurence Dreyfus (himself something of a Renaissance man), combines rigorous intellect with sensitive musicianship...Ensemble and intonation are flawless; keen rhythms and feather-light bowing... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 13th June 2011
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Finalist - Early Music
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2011, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2011, Editor's Choice
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Shakespeare Songs
RecommendedIan Bostridge (tenor), Antonio Pappano (piano), Elizabeth Kenny (lute), Adam Walker (flute), Lawrence Power (viola), Michael Collins (clarinet)
Five songs from Finzi’s incomparable Let us Garlands Bring see the tenor’s head voice floating sympathetically through the melismatic vowels and ever-shifting metres of Finzi’s most sensitive... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2016, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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ECHO Klassik Awards, 2017, Winner
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Grammy Awards, 59th Awards (2016), Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Egarr explores with affection and intelligence the rich world of Byrd’s keyboard music, on a modern copy of a Ruckers harpsichord. Bells is a real gem. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2018, Editor's Choice
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The Honour of William Byrd Helen Charlston (mezzo-soprano), Ibrahim Aziz, Alison Kinder, Kate Conway, Sam Stadlen, Jennifer Bullock, Harry Buckoke
Chelys Consort of Viols
Whether or not these vocal works were meant to be sung by male singers is debateable, but Helen Charlston’s rich, deep timbre make such distinctions irrelevant. Supple, controlled and vibrato... — More…
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Crystal Tears (+free dvd)
RecommendedJohn Dowland & his contemporaries
Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Julian Behr (lute)
Concerto di Viole
There is some magical singing here, and Scholl is supported by instrumental playing of rare subtlety and real finesse. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th May 2008
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Conceived as ‘an audio voyage’, this programme makes associations between diverse repertoire through timbre, texture, colour and ‘affect’...In the hands of a gifted virtuoso like Eller, one... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2021, Instrumental Choice
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