Ars Nova Copenhagen
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Sorensen achieves a convincing transition between the two styles, using the plainchant as a kind of mediation...Sorensen specifies the positioning of the choir and individual voices: the outstanding... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2012, Choral & Song Choice
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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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Beethoven: Complete Symphonies Vol. 3 Copenhagen Phil, Ars Nova Copenhagen, Latvian Radio Choir, Lan Shui
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Messiaen Edition
RecommendedAn 18-CD set offering a comprehensive overview of Messiaen’s work in recordings made between 1963 and 2000.
Olivier Messiaen, Katia and Marielle Labeque, Yvonne Loriod (piano), Marie-Claire Alain (organ), Maria Oràn (soprano), Huguette Fernandez (violin), Guy Deplus (clarinet), Jacques Nielz (cello), Marie-Madeleine Petit (piano), pianos, Rachel Yakar (soprano), Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano), Dominique...
Messiaen's own performance of the large organ cycle Méditations sur le mystère de la Sainte-Trinité is included amongst the goodies on offer here. …it is thoroughly compulsive listening, and... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 7th July 2008
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2005, Special Review
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Building a Library, March 2017, First Choice
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A Bridge of Dreams with Andrew Lawrence-King (harp), Paul Hillier (recitation)
Ars Nova Copenhagen
Anne Boyd's As I crossed a bridge of dreams (1975) gives its title to the CD and, with its rapt sostenuto, steals the show. Almost endlessly sustained, immaculately imagined, and - like everything... — More…
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Ranging from plainchant and motets to 17th Century dialogues and contemporary carol settings, it sounds like it may come across as a bit of a hotchpotch. But it doesn’t at all and with singing... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 5th December 2011
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[Vox Reportage] can seem uncomfortably close to a virtuoso demonstration of the manifold noises top chamber choirs are capable of creating nowadays…It left me a little unsettled and enervated,... — More…
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Buxtehude: Scandinavian Cantatas Bine Bryndorf (organ)
Theatre of Voices - TOV Band, Paul Hillier
Singing one-to-a-part, they produce splendidly full tone...These fine cantatas show that Buxtehude was much more than just a predecessor of Bach. The performances are both spirited and spiritual,... — More…
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Schütz - Die sieben Worte Jesu Christi am Kreutz & Johannes-Passion ARS NOVA Copenhagen & Sirius Viols, Paul Hillier
Paul Hillier paces the narrative subtly, from down-to-earth description to slow contemplation...The singers, admirably matched, are helped by the church acoustic, which warms the tone without... — More…
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Schütz: St Matthew Passion, SWV 479 Julian Podger (Evangelist) & Jakob Bloch Jespersen (Jesus)
Ars Nova Copenhagen, Paul Hillier
The heaviest responsibility rests with the Evangelist, superbly done by Podger. Though he rises to moments of great dramatic oratory in places...most of his account is delivered in measured... — More…
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