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Mozart: Mass in C minor, K427 'Great'
RecommendedCarolyn Sampson (soprano), Olivia Vermeulen (alto), Makoto Sakurada (tenor), Christian Immler (bass)
Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki
Stripping the score right back, Suzuki makes musicianship dominate. He taps into the subtle arts of his fellow performers, especially Carolyn Sampson, to create a benchmark performance…Sampson... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2017, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2016, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Winner - Choral
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Building a Library, September 2020, Recommended Recording
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Bach: Magnificats RecommendedJoélle Harvey (soprano), Olivia Vermeulen (mezzo), Thomas Walker (tenor), Iestyn Davies (countertenor), Thomas Bauer (baritone)
Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen
You would be hard-pressed to find a more illuminating disc than this latest offering from Arcangelo…There’s nothing overfamiliar about the captivating freshness and buoyancy that both chorus... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2018, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2018, Choral &Song Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, February 2018
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Shortlisted - Choral
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2018
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Haydn: Die Schöpfung
RecommendedGaechinger Cantorey, Katharina Konradi, Julian Habermann, Tobias Berndt, Hans-Christoph Rademann
From the very start it ’s clear that we’re in for an exceptionally dramatic performance, as Hans-Christoph Rademann and his musicians bring out all the intensity and eeriness of the ‘Representation... — More…
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Record Review, 19th November 2022, Record of the Week
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Choral
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Building A Library, January 2024, Recommended Recording
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Haydn: The Seasons, Hob.XXI:3
RecommendedCarolyn Sampson (soprano), Jeremy Ovenden (tenor), Andrew Foster-Williams (bass)
Wrocław Baroque Orchestra, Wrocław Philharmonic Choir, Gabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh
the performance matches the high standards of McCreesh's previous grand choral projects...McCreesh revels in Haydn's masterly skills in writing for orchestra, choir and soloists...The choir's... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 24th March 2017
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2017, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2017, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Finalist - Choral
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2017
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Record Review, 29th April 2017, Recording of the Week
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Jan Ladislav Dussek: Messe Solemnelle
RecommendedStefanie True (soprano), Helen Charlston (mezzo-soprano), Gwilym Bowen (tenor), Morgan Pearse (bass), Choir of the AAM, Academy of Ancient Music, Richard Egarr
The work is fluent, imaginatively orchestrated with impressive contrapuntal writing…This enjoyable, well recorded rendition, with lovely solo singing, has clear passionate advocacy; notwithstanding... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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The Times Records of the Year, 2020
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Winner - Choral
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Choral
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Haydn: Die Schöpfung
RecommendedAnna Lucia Richter (soprano), Maximilian Schmitt (tenor), Florian Boesch (baritone), Il Giardino Armonico, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Giovanni Antonini
Antonini has a fine line-up of soloists, and they clearly enjoy themselves: the soprano Anna Lucia Richter and the tenor Maximilian Schmidt both have attractively light-toned voices, and Richter’s... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 9th October 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Gramophone Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Choral
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Mozart: Requiem in D minor, K626
RecommendedSophie Karthäuser (soprano), Marie-Claude Chappuis (mezzo), Maximilian Schmitt (tenor, Johannes Weisser (baritone)
Freiburger Barockorchester, RIAS Kammerchor, René Jacobs
Choir members are the virtuosos here. Their flexibility enables them to enrich or bleach vocal colour, and flood or dry up volume levels, to the subtlest degree. Jacobs plays the choir like an... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 3rd November 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2018, Choral & Song Choice
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Beethoven: Symphony No.9
RecommendedChristina Landshamer (soprano), Jennifer Johnson Cano (mezzo-soprano), Werner Güra (tenor), Shenyang (bass-baritone), Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck
In terms of sound and precision, the performance is meticulous, immaculate and even. That’s not to say that Honeck doesn't occasionally play a little loose…Everything about this performance has... — More…
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Record Review, 27th March 2021, Record of the Week
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Grammy Awards, 64th Awards (2022), Nominee - Best Orchestral Performance
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Grammy Awards, 64th Awards (2022), Nominee - Best Engineered Classical Album
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 Sally Matthews (soprano), Gerhild Romberger (contralto), Mark Padmore (tenor), Gerald Finley (bass)
Chor und Symphonieorchester der Bayerischen Rundfunks, Bernard Haitink
This is a big, impressive performance of the Ninth that will appeal to any listener who wants their Beethoven served up that way. Haitink’s admirers, it goes without saying, will not want to... — More…
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Female Singer of the Year (Romberger)
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Male Singer of the Year (Padmore)
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Conductor of the Year
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Beethoven: Missa Solemnis in D major, Op. 123
Lucy Crowe (soprano), Jennifer Johnston (mezzo), James Gilchrist (tenor), Matthew Rose (bass)
Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique & Monteverdi Choir, Sir John Eliot Gardiner
it's not difficult to understand why Gardiner wanted this particular performance perpetuated: fine as the Archiv version is, the new one has an electricity of a kind that's hard to generate under... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2014, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Finalist - Choral
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International Classical Music Awards, 2015, Winner - Choral Works
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