My Wish List
BBC Awards nominee
Korngold up for BBC Music Magazine Award
Wilson on Gramophone
John Wilson is February's cover star!
5-stars for Alder
Lines Written.. receives blanket 5-stars from press
Brodsky Guardian pick
Late String Quartets are Guardian's album of week
Louise Alder Concert
Enjoy Louise's Wigmore Hall concert on BBC Radio 3
Mariss Jansons
Remembering our innovative work with him
Purcell's Dido & Aeneas
Chaconne release is R3's Recommended Recording
ICMA 2020 Awards
Iberia y Francia and Lyatoshynsky shortlisted!
Recording of the Week!
Like to the Lark is pick on BBC R3's Record Review
Coates Concert
Enjoy John Wilson & BBC Phil's live concert on R3
Ralph Couzens Interview
Presto interviews Managing Director Ralph Couzens
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Gramophone Nominee
Doric String Quartet's Britten/Purcell shortlisted!
SoL's Triumphant Return!
John Wilson re-establishes SoL with Korngold release
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LPO's New Conductor
Edward Gardner to be next LPO Principal Conductor
A Life in Music
Marking 100 years since pioneer Tommy Reilly's birth
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Landmarks
40-disc Anniversary Box Set is now yours to explore
We are 40!
Thanks for all your support and congratulations
Here's to the next 40!
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Sue Revill
(1955-2019) An irreplaceable friend and colleague
“… Jean Muller’s playing is as imaginative as it is expressive. Superb strings, incisive brass and agile woodwinds have no difficulty at all with König’s rhythmically sharpened conducting and help to realize the conductor’s dramaturgical concept in an optimal way. A pleasantly spatial sound recording rounds off the good impression of this CD.” *****
“… Jean Muller’s playing is as imaginative as it is expressive. Superb strings, incisive brass and agile woodwinds have no difficulty at all with König’s rhythmically sharpened conducting and help to realize the conductor’s dramaturgical concept in an optimal way. A pleasantly spatial sound recording rounds off the good impression of this CD.” *****
“… The choir members serve as active participants in the action (e.g. slave hunters) as well as commentators on the plot. The music is largely tonal, often dramatic, sometimes pathetic or reflective, but dramaturgically very well done so that the listener’s attention is always captured. The production, recorded live at Carnegie Hall in May 2018, has a very good musical level and shows a lot of commitment on the part of the singers. And so this recording, which also includes a complete libretto, must be certified as being of a high standard and highly recommendable.” *****
“… The choir members serve as active participants in the action (e.g. slave hunters) as well as commentators on the plot. The music is largely tonal, often dramatic, sometimes pathetic or reflective, but dramaturgically very well done so that the listener’s attention is always captured. The production, recorded live at Carnegie Hall in May 2018, has a very good musical level and shows a lot of commitment on the part of the singers. And so this recording, which also includes a complete libretto, must be certified as being of a high standard and highly recommendable.” *****
“Plumbing deep wells of spiritual devotion, this music meets its match in poised, committed performances of simultaneous unanimity and character … Six elegant masterly, creatively scored motets by Hermann Werrecore appear in their world premier recordings as the rarest delicacies in a flavoursome menu of works from the maestri of 16th-century Milan.” *****
“Plumbing deep wells of spiritual devotion, this music meets its match in poised, committed performances of simultaneous unanimity and character … Six elegant masterly, creatively scored motets by Hermann Werrecore appear in their world premier recordings as the rarest delicacies in a flavoursome menu of works from the maestri of 16th-century Milan.” *****
“… The choir shines when singing as an ensemble, bringing out Ešenvalds’s clever vocal techniques superbly.” ***
“… The choir shines when singing as an ensemble, bringing out Ešenvalds’s clever vocal techniques superbly.” ***
Performance **** Recording *****
Performance **** Recording *****
Performance **** Recording *****
“… the 13 youthful voices of Siglo de Oro produce a fresh, ingenious sound. Their timbre is open and expressive – the use of vibrato adding a tremulous urgency to some of the more emotive passages. The young singers respond sensitively to the music and liturgical range of the programme … Textures vary, too, from the luscious full ensemble to fragile solo voices (their sound tender, if a shade tentative at times). Director Patrick Allies shapes the architecture of the large-scale music edifices with admirable control. Both the ensemble and the recording are well-balanced, and the acoustic has an aptly sacred bloom.”
Performance **** Recording *****
“… the 13 youthful voices of Siglo de Oro produce a fresh, ingenious sound. Their timbre is open and expressive – the use of vibrato adding a tremulous urgency to some of the more emotive passages. The young singers respond sensitively to the music and liturgical range of the programme … Textures vary, too, from the luscious full ensemble to fragile solo voices (their sound tender, if a shade tentative at times). Director Patrick Allies shapes the architecture of the large-scale music edifices with admirable control. Both the ensemble and the recording are well-balanced, and the acoustic has an aptly sacred bloom.”
Performance **** Recording *****
“… Mesmerising.”Performance **** Recording *****
“… Mesmerising.”
Choral & Song Choice
Performance ***** Recording ****
“Expressive performances make these works dazzle … Ruby Hughes rises to the challenge with bombproof strength.”
Choral & Song Choice
Performance ***** Recording ****
“Expressive performances make these works dazzle … Ruby Hughes rises to the challenge with bombproof strength.”
