Delphian
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Perhaps the most striking feature of this recording from the Choir of St Mary's Cathedral Edinburgh is the way in which the trebles seem perfectly integrated within the ensemble...The rest of... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2014, Editor's Choice
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Adeste Fideles - Organ Music for Christmas
Thomas Laing-Reilly (the organ of St Cuthbert's Church, Edinburgh)
St Cuthbert's Change-Ringers
My other organ pick is a generous (77 min) Christmas organ special, Adeste Fideles, from Thomas Laing-Reilly on the vast tonal palette of the IV/68 Hope Jones/Walker organ of St Cuthbert's,... — More…
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the disc offers a lively collection of McGuire's chamber music. Much of the disc is highly affirming, notably Euphoria (1980), a delicious, efferescent work composed at the height of Cold War... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2015, Editor's Choice
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In Sorrow's Footsteps
Music by Gabriel Jackson, Palestrina, Allegri and James MacMillan
The Marian Consort, Rory McCleery
The sharp, jabbing gestures at the opening of Gabriel Jackson’s new setting of the Stabat Mater…announce that wilting introspection is by no means the composer’s default position in his response... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, July 2018
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Oxana Shevchenko: Winner of the 2010 Scottish International Piano Competition
Oxana Shevchenko (piano)
This is the most exciting debut disc to come my way for some time...It will only take the opening bars of "Alborada" to convince you what a fine Ravel player she is...while Thea Musgrave's specially... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2011, Editor's Choice
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Ian Venables: Requiem & Herbert Howells: Anthems for Choir & Orchestra
Eppie Sharp, Aine Smith, Edmund Saddington, LucyAnne Fletcher
Choir of Merton College Oxford, Oxford Contemporary Sinfonia, Benjamin Nicholas
This isn’t music to shake mountains, but its craftsmanship, sincerity and ability to stir the more tender emotions – well reflected in this performance – remains undeniably appealing. — More…
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In Praise of St Columba
The Sound World of the Celtic Church
Barnaby Brown (triple pipes, lyre)
Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, Geoffrey Webber
Webber and his choristers have produced a generously filled disc that seeks to recreate three distinct sound worlds...Everything is performed with a missionary zeal...hauntingly beautiful. — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2014, Choral & Song Choice
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Into This World, This Day Did Come
RecommendedCarols Contemporary & Medieval
Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, Geoffrey Webber
There are many highlights but Williams Sweeney's Scots dialect setting 'The Innumerable Christ' stands out for its daring other-worldliness, as do Stuart MacRae's bold re-imagining of 'Adam... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 30th November 2009
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Stravinsky: Choral Works
RecommendedRuby Hughes (soprano) & Nicholas Mulroy (tenor)
Choir of St Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh & Scottish Chamber Orchestra Soloists, Duncan Ferguson
Edinburgh's mixed cathedral choir bring vernal freshness to the cantata. — More…
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Building a Library, November 2018, Recommended - Liturgical
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...if the Quartet's performances here are anything to go by, [Fell] can be proud that they bear his name...an enjoyable, carefully planned programme, very nicely engineered — More…
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