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This is clearly a well-honed performance, strongest in delicate moments....This new release is a happy marriage of musicality and musicology. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2023, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Early Music
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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Bach, J S: St John Passion, BWV245 Sigiswald Kuijken (direction & violin, gamba, viola d’amore), Christoph Genz (Evangelist/tenor arias), Jens Hamann (Jesus/baritone arias), Gerlinde Samann (soprano), Petra Noskaiová (mezzo)
La Petite Bande, Sigiswald Kuijken
This 'choir' provides heartfelt congregational ardour in chorales, the hysterical ferocity of a crowd thirsting for blood, and objective commentary as onlookers in the opening and closing choruses.... — More…
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MacMillan: St. Luke Passion
RecommendedPeter Dicke (organ)
Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic, Netherlands Radio Choir & National Youth Choir, Markus Stenz
The music is good at portraying the extremes of almighty power. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 6th April 2015
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Britten: War Requiem, Op. 66
Evelina Dobracheva (soprano), Anthony Dean Griffey (tenor) & Mark Stone (baritone)
The Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra Netherlands Radio Choir & Netherlands Children’s Choir, Jaap van Zweden & Reinbert de Leeuw
With a formidable blend of Slavic steel and sensuality in her rich soprano, she provides the gleaming core to a deeply satisfying Libera me...Griffey's heavy vibrato makes for unevenness and... — More…
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 'Choral'
Annemarie Kremer (soprano), Wilke te Brummelstroete (alto), Marcel Reijans (tenor) & Geert Smits (baritone)
Netherlands Symphony Orchestra, Jan Willem de Vriend
it's a considerable relief to turn to interpreters who respond first of all to the text in front of them...what one actually hears is a symphony composed in 1824 and not 1884...The adroit members... — More…
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