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Sue Revill (1955-2019)
BBC Music Mag Win!
Early Opera Co. wins award
Tasmin Little Honoured
Tasmin Little awarded Personality of the Year at BBC
Grammy nomination
'Serenade to..' up for award
Presto Award winner!
Federico Colli wins Top 10 Recording of the Year
Diapason d'Or de l'Année
Chandos won two awards, including Sound Recording
ICMA nominations
Chandos has been nominated for two ICMA awards 2019!
Album launch
Congratulations to Ferio for a fantastic Rhinegold Live!
Musician in Residence
Ivan Ilic is new Musician in Residence at Ulster University
Lifetime Achievement
Neeme Järvi wins Lifetime Achievement Award
Finley's special release
Gerald Finley has released a single ahead of LNOTP 2018.
Album of the Week
New release Finzi album is the Guardian's Album of Week.
Gramophone Nomination
For Bergen Philharmonic's Grieg album, congratulations!
Doric String Quartet
Doric Quartet feature on the cover of the Strad
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100th anniversary of RAF
Some of the finest RAF bands on one album to celebrate
Ilic: Reicha Rediscovered
All 4 episodes of the series are now available.
Allan Clayton: RPS winner
Allan wins RPS 2018 Singer award - congratulations!
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Instrumental Choice
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“Imogen Coopers’ Beethoven is sensitive and full of joy.”
Instrumental Choice
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“Imogen Coopers’ Beethoven is sensitive and full of joy.”
"...excellently sung." ***
"...excellently sung." ***
"A rich offering on a theme of interfaith connectivity. The Japanese lullaby-inspired Zen Love Song and title work Love Abide are totally absorbing." *****
"A rich offering on a theme of interfaith connectivity. The Japanese lullaby-inspired Zen Love Song and title work Love Abide are totally absorbing." *****
"I enjoyed these works by the great late 19th-century cellist-composer they're not masterpieces by any means, but their rollicking tunes and inventive figuration male for a fun listen." ****
"I enjoyed these works by the great late 19th-century cellist-composer they're not masterpieces by any means, but their rollicking tunes and inventive figuration male for a fun listen." ****
"... Billy the Kid ... is played with terrific swagger by Slatkin's Detroit forces." ****
"... Billy the Kid ... is played with terrific swagger by Slatkin's Detroit forces." ****
"... a rewarding listen." ****
"... a rewarding listen." ****
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"...Altino has a sense of pacing throughout ... and the colours he draws from his instrument are well-caught by the recording."
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"...Altino has a sense of pacing throughout ... and the colours he draws from his instrument are well-caught by the recording."
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Performance **** Recording *****
Performance **** Recording *****
"... Contrasting the solo voices of Contrapuntus with the full-bodied choral sound. Rees sculpts the musical lines in low and high relief; delicately etched passages exquisitely sung by the solo voices of Contrapuntus give way to the sonorous, often seraphic, sound of the full ensemble. These dramatic contrasts make the Trinity Sunday Mass one of the masterpieces of Tudor polyphony... The recording is faultlessly engineered; lucid and vividly present."
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"... Contrasting the solo voices of Contrapuntus with the full-bodied choral sound. Rees sculpts the musical lines in low and high relief; delicately etched passages exquisitely sung by the solo voices of Contrapuntus give way to the sonorous, often seraphic, sound of the full ensemble. These dramatic contrasts make the Trinity Sunday Mass one of the masterpieces of Tudor polyphony... The recording is faultlessly engineered; lucid and vividly present."
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"... Anna Lucia Richter is still early in her career, yet demonstrates astonishing versatility, insight and intelligence in this programme of Schubert songs. Gerold Huber's extensive experience as an accompanist is revealed as he draws the tenderest sounds from his piano without ever descending into mawkish exaggeration. both artists know how to stretch time, bearing us expertly on the ebb and flow of Schubert's music... I'm looking forward to their next release."
Performance ***** Recording *****
"... Anna Lucia Richter is still early in her career, yet demonstrates astonishing versatility, insight and intelligence in this programme of Schubert songs. Gerold Huber's extensive experience as an accompanist is revealed as he draws the tenderest sounds from his piano without ever descending into mawkish exaggeration. both artists know how to stretch time, bearing us expertly on the ebb and flow of Schubert's music... I'm looking forward to their next release."
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“… all the soloists are excellent, and thoughtful casting among the four baritones and bass-baritones has allotted the Ismaelite father to Matthew Brook, who brings just that touch of extra warmth to the role. Chorus and orchestra add further lustre to this superb enterprise, in which Andrew Davis’s love for the music shines through in every bar.”
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“… all the soloists are excellent, and thoughtful casting among the four baritones and bass-baritones has allotted the Ismaelite father to Matthew Brook, who brings just that touch of extra warmth to the role. Chorus and orchestra add further lustre to this superb enterprise, in which Andrew Davis’s love for the music shines through in every bar.”
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"...There is plenty of symbolist potential in this 'dramatic ballad', as the composer called it; the 'night' in the work's title is that moment when the man-hating Princess succumbs, only temporarily it transpires, to the seductive song of the nameless Singer. This nocturnal sensuality is well conveyed by the leading soprano and tenor, Lina Liu and Ralph Ertel, and if anything the rest of the ensemble is even stronger, sounding involved and impressive under Andreas Hotz's sympathetic baton."
Performance **** Recording ****
"...There is plenty of symbolist potential in this 'dramatic ballad', as the composer called it; the 'night' in the work's title is that moment when the man-hating Princess succumbs, only temporarily it transpires, to the seductive song of the nameless Singer. This nocturnal sensuality is well conveyed by the leading soprano and tenor, Lina Liu and Ralph Ertel, and if anything the rest of the ensemble is even stronger, sounding involved and impressive under Andreas Hotz's sympathetic baton."
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“…while there’s plenty of Iberian flavour to this recording, including a flamenco cantor of properly reedy vocal depth. Mena never lets us forget that the work is in that Italian tradition… Salud … is sung by Nancy Fabiola Herrera, whose voice is up to every expressive nuance of the role. She is compelling … Faithless Paco is sung with the verve of a true rake by Aquiles Machado, and the smaller parts are all well cast, especially Gustavo Peña singing the Voice from the Forge …”
Performance **** Recording ****
“…while there’s plenty of Iberian flavour to this recording, including a flamenco cantor of properly reedy vocal depth. Mena never lets us forget that the work is in that Italian tradition… Salud … is sung by Nancy Fabiola Herrera, whose voice is up to every expressive nuance of the role. She is compelling … Faithless Paco is sung with the verve of a true rake by Aquiles Machado, and the smaller parts are all well cast, especially Gustavo Peña singing the Voice from the Forge …”
Opera Choice
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"This is a marriage made in a musical heaven with the young Dutch soprano Jodie Devos reminding us just how gifted Jacques Offenbach was as a composer. And how inventive too... She's [Devos] a gravity-defying coloratura soprano who would have thrilled the composer ..."
Opera Choice
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"This is a marriage made in a musical heaven with the young Dutch soprano Jodie Devos reminding us just how gifted Jacques Offenbach was as a composer. And how inventive too... She's [Devos] a gravity-defying coloratura soprano who would have thrilled the composer ..."
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Performance **** Recording ****
Performance **** Recording *****
"The world's first concerto for theorbo' is unashamedly clever. Listen without the contextual notes and you experience a sensory whirlwind in which the theorbo is catapulted into the present, reinventing itself with a range of extended techniques and, under Matthew Wadsworth's deft fingers, soloistic effects it never knew it was capable of. Between the Scottish Chamber orchestra's tightly-executed themes that combine a whiff of Elgar and Shostakovich with bach and Blues, Wadsworth shimmers, jostles, and dances - holding his own in this new territory..."
Performance **** Recording *****
"The world's first concerto for theorbo' is unashamedly clever. Listen without the contextual notes and you experience a sensory whirlwind in which the theorbo is catapulted into the present, reinventing itself with a range of extended techniques and, under Matthew Wadsworth's deft fingers, soloistic effects it never knew it was capable of. Between the Scottish Chamber orchestra's tightly-executed themes that combine a whiff of Elgar and Shostakovich with bach and Blues, Wadsworth shimmers, jostles, and dances - holding his own in this new territory..."
