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Special offer. Schütz: Musicalische Exequien
RecommendedMasato Suzuki (organ)
Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier
The 12 voices of Belgian ensemble Vox Luminis put their faith in tonal focus and sweetly balanced textures. Though one might expect from that a certain coolness, their singing produces music-making... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st October 2012
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Recording of the Year
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Building A Library, December 2021, Also Recommended
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Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem
RecommendedRecorded live at the Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 2008
Katharine Fuge (soprano), Matthew Brook (bass)
Monteverdi Choir & Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, John Eliot Gardiner
The recorded sound has great immediacy, and the chorus produces a beautifully sustained and richly coloured vocal tone. Gardiner's flexibility in tempo, phrasing and dynamics (which Brahms favoured)... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 5th March 2012
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Finalist - Choral
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2012, Editor's Choice
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Bach: Cantatas Nos 35 & 169
Iestyn Davies (counter-tenor), Carolyn Sampson (soprano), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Neal Davies (bass)
Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen
they’re the perfect vehicles for the crack team of Iestyn Davies’s extraordinary vocal control and Arcangelo’s nimble-footedness. — More…
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Record Review, 5th February 2022, Record of the Week
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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Buxtehude, Schütz & Dijkman: Septem Verba & Membra Jesu Nostri
Ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé
Vocal forces of just 10 singers supported by the same number of instrumentalists bring a level of intimacy that is entirely appropriate to this programme of 17th-century music reflecting on... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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Record Review, Records of the Year 2021
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Finalist - Choral
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Brahms: Symphony No. 4
Recorded live at Royal Festival Hall, London, 5-8 October 2008
The Monteverdi Choir & Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, John Eliot Gardiner
everything seems in focus: not just the tempo, but also the rhythmic drive and urgency seem absolutely right in the third and fourth movements...This performance gives a lively sense of what... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2010, Editor's Choice
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Junghänel's initiative is all the more welcome for presenting a superbly polished performance while maintaining an equilibrium between the energy and colour of Schütz's Italian models and the... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2005, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2006, Editor's Choice
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Building A Library, December 2021, Recommended Recording
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Ein Feste Burg ist Unser Gott
Luther and the Music of the Reformation
Bart Jacobs (organ)
Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier
Lionel Meunier’s assured direction never misses (nor overstates) an expressive trick; and Vox Luminis’s warmly inflected singing is throughout finely-attuned to the way in which every note has... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2017, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2017, Editor's Choice
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Record Review, 19th August 2017, Recording of the Week
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Schütz - Weinachtshistorie & Auferstehunghistorie
Jakob Bloch Jespersen (bass), Johan Linderoth (tenor), Adam Riis (tenor) & Else Torp (soprano)
Ars Nova Copenhagen, Concerto Copenhagen & Sirius Viols, Paul Hillier
The performance is first-rate throughout. Natural, tractable voices create characterful images - in the Christmas Story, Else Torp an ethereal angel, Jakob Bloch Jespersen a sneering Herod.... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Finalist - Baroque Vocal
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Acqua Alta in Venice: Sacred Works By Gabrieli, Schutz & Rosenmuller
Ensemble Respiro, Andreas Neuhaus
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Mields is impeccable throughout, the pristine purity of the early songs setting off the calculated exaggerations and distortions of the contemporary ones. This is a brilliant, unexpected disc,... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2019, Editor's Choice
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2019, Winner - Ensemble/Orchestra
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