Ruby Hughes
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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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Heroines of Love and Loss vocal chamber music from the 17th century
Ruby Hughes (soprano), Mime Yamahiro Brinkmann (cello) & Jonas Nordberg (lute / theorbo / archlute)
Ruby Hughes’s soprano has an effortless beauty: pliant, subtly expressive, never forced. She captures the chaste fervour of the sacred works…Brinkmann and Nordberg proffer aptly spontaneous... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2017, Editor's Choice
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Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C Minor 'Resurrection' Sasha Cooke (mezzo-soprano), Ruby Hughes (soprano)
Minnesota Orchestra & Chorale, Osmo Vänskä
Vänskä has very clear ideas of his own about Mahler...The disadvantage of that in this Resurrection comes, for me, very early on: after a swift, rather lightweight signing-in for fire and fury,... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Symphonic Music
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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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A Venetian Christmas Ewa Golińska, Komalé Akakpo, Ruby Hughes
Arte dei Suonatori, Martin Gester
Some tenuous theming here, but who cares when the music-making - tart and spicy on period-instruments - is so appealing? — More…
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