Ruby Hughes
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Imaginative, sensitive programming has been a constant feature of Ruby Hughes’s collaborations; and this latest with the perennially adventurous Manchester Collective is no exception...A disc... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2024, Choral & Song Choice
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Samuel’s musical response is something of a tour de force - at once fiercely dramatic and always coherent…Hughes rises to the challenge with bombproof technical strength and control, plenty... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2020, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Shortlisted - Orchestral
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Watkins’s cycle shares Britten’s ability to meld text and musical gesture with an acuity seemingly effortless, almost plucked ready-formed out of the air...An exquisite release touched with... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, November 2022
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2023, Recording of the Month
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Songs For New Life and Love RecommendedMahler - Ives - Grime
Ruby Hughes (soprano), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Hughes commands attention throughout – there’s no ‘clever’ underlining, no irrelevant tonal refulgences or prima donna posturings. Intense concentration on text and emotional nuance replace... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2021, Editor's Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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a real winner on all counts - the individual players are hugely impressive when required to step into the spotlight, and the intensity of the collective sound in tutti passages is overwhelming... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, January 2022
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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Richard Strauss: The Complete Songs 7
Ruby Hughes (soprano), Ben Johnson (tenor), Günter Haumer (baritone), Roger Vignoles (piano), Ed Lockwood (French horn)
The pleasures are manifold. Even ardent Straussians won't know many of the songs in this mix of juvenilia...[Hughes] is a delight, pure lyric-soprano transparency for the often folksy simplicity... — More…
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Ruby Hughes's singing is exceptional - light and delicate yet true. — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2016, Choral & Song Choice
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Purcell: Britten
Songs by Henry Purcell, realised by Benjamin Britten
Robin Blaze (countertenor), Allan Clayton (tenor), Anna Grevelius (mezzo-soprano), Ruby Hughes (soprano), Benedict Nelson (baritone), Matthew Rose (bass), Joseph Middleton (piano)
The singers steer a convincing stylistic course, balancing the sometimes contradictory demands of the source material and the arrangement…Middleton’s playing is precisely coloured and characterised — More…
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Montsalvatge: Orchestral Works Ruby Hughes (soprano), Clara Mouriz (mezzo-soprano)
BBC Philharmonic, Juanjo Mena
The BBC Philharmonic are in excellent form throughout, well marshalled by Mena, they and Montsalvatge's often spare, quiet textures captured in typically rich Chandos sound. A very enjoyable... — More…
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Dowland: Lachrimae
Thomas Dunford (lute/direction), Ruby Hughes (soprano), Renoud Van Mechelen (tenor), Paul Agnew (tenor), Alain Buet (bass)
Crystalline sound, exquisite playing from lutenist Thomas Dunford, a hidden bonus track, and vividly wrought performances from a fine vocal consort. — More…
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