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Bach, J S: St John Passion, BWV245 RecommendedIan Bostridge (Evangelist), Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Nicholas Mulroy (tenor), Neal Davies (bass), Iestyn Davies (countertenor) & Roderick Williams (baritone)
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment & Polyphony, Stephen Layton
this new recording's credentials border on the unassailable...Layton's pacing is compelling - there's no mistaking the gambling fever as the soldiers cast lots for Christ's garment...[Neal Davies]... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 18th February 2013
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2013, Editor's Choice
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Parry: Scenes from Shelley's 'Prometheus Unbound'
RecommendedSarah Fox (soprano), Dame Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), David Butt Philip (tenor), Neal Davies (baritone), Crouch End Festival Chorus, London Mozart Players, William Vann
Vann has mustered a fine team of soloists. Neal Davies is a commanding Prometheus, while David Butt Philip relishes the ringing Wagnerian Heldentenor declamation Parry allots to Jupiter...Vann’s... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2023, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023, Shortlisted - World Premiere Recording (Rediscovery)
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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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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Haydn: The Creation
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Sandrine Piau (Gabriel), Miah Persson (Eve), Ruth Massey (alto), Mark Padmore (Uriel), Neal Davies (Raphael), Peter Harvey (Adam)
Gabrieli Consort, Gabrieli Players & Chetham's Chamber Choir, Paul McCreesh
The sheer magnificence of the choruses that provide the oratorio's structural pillars has rarely been so effectively realised on disc. McCreesh also has an exceptional set of soloists. The... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 17th March 2008
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2008, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Winner - Choral
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 RecommendedAnn-Helen Moen (soprano), Marianne Beate Kielland (mezzo), Allan Clayton (tenor), Neal Davies (bass)
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
This marvelous performance is reproduced in superb, lifelike sound, full of impact but without any sense of artificial enhancement. Masaaki Suzuki and the Bach Collegium Japan have given us... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Bach, J S: Mass in B minor, BWV232 RecommendedLydia Teuscher (soprano), Ida Falk Winland (soprano), Tim Mead (countertenor), Samuel Boden (tenor), Neal Davies (bass)
Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen
Cohen's take side-steps Joshua Rifkin's premise that it should be sung one-to-a-part and fields a choir of 20...Cohen announces the Credo at an invigoratingly purposeful lick...Tim Mead's eloquently... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2014, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Gramophone Awards, 2015, Finalist - Baroque Vocal
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Sometimes the best discoveries in music aren’t pieces that you’ve never heard before, but those you have, made new by remarkable interpretations…At the recital’s heart is a breath-catching performance... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2017, Choral & Song Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2017
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Dyson: Nebuchadnezzar
Mark Padmore (tenor) & Neal Davies (bass-baritone)
BBC Symphony Chorus & BBC Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox
…Richard Hickox again reminds us of his unrivalled mastery in the British choral-orchestral repertoire, particularly here in terms of balance and pace. The two soloists, Mark Padmore as a herald... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Finalist - Choral
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Bach, J S: St John Passion, BWV245 James Gilchrist (Evangelist), Neal Davies (Christus), Sophie Bevan (soprano/Ancilla), Iestyn Davies (alto), Ed Lyon (tenor arias), Toby Ward (Servus), Benedict Kearns (Petrus), Roderick Williams (bass arias/Pilatus)
Academy of Ancient Music & King's College Choir Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury
Cleobury has assembled an unassailable team of soloists, whose powerful insights gild Neal Davies’s Jesus, a characterisation of immense presence and authority. — More…
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Stainer: The Crucifixion
Andrew Kennedy (tenor), Neal Davies (bass) & Darius Battiwalla (organ)
Huddersfield Choral Society, Joseph Cullen
…the Huddersfield Choral Society under Joseph Cullen's highly sensitive direction provides a vital instance of how The Crucifixion was conceived - that is, to be sung with romantic, emotional... — More…
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