CD, Cornelius (composer)
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Their style of singing – perfectly blended vocal harmony, exquisite tuning, inventive phrasing, delicately poised textural clarity - provides a magical accompaniment to the warmth of the Christmas... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Issue 2023, Recording of the Month
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My Christmas
RecommendedDiana Damrau (soprano), Matthias Höfs (trumpet), NDR Radiophilharmonie, Knabenchor Hanover, Richard Whilds, Riccardo Minasi
Damrau’s two-disc My Christmas ticks some of the same boxes as the legendary Elisabeth Schwarzkopf’s Christmas Album, though Damrau seems more naturally at home in the seasonal idiom...Opinions... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd December 2022
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Female Singer of the Year
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this selection of arrangements for eight voices shows the group's undoubted vocal pedigree —
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Karg’s angelic soprano – light and buttery – is perfect for this charming repertoire and she does it full justice in winning performances —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 3rd December 2021
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The Christmas Album
RecommendedBenjamin Appl (soloist), Christian Heiss, Johannes Berger, Hans Berger, Ilias Grau (soloist), Edeltraud Appl, Regensburger Domspatzen, Munich Radio Orchestra, Florian Helgath
It turns out that Appl’s contribution to the season of goodwill is as thoughtfully assembled as one of his Lieder programmes, and performed with the same level of care. The Regensburg boys are... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th November 2024
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The Wise Men and the Star - A Christmas Collection
Julie Cooper (soprano), Alexandra Kidgell (soprano), Emilia Morton (soprano), Ben Davies (bass-baritone), Martha McLorinan (vocalist), Oscar Golden-Lee (tenor), Katy Hill, The Sixteen, Harry Christophers
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Epiphany at St Paul’s
Huw Williams (organ), Jonathan Arnold (baritone), Robert Rice (baritone), Flann Corcoran (treble) & Mervyn Collins (tenor), Roy Rashbrook (tenor), Timothy Jones (baritone) & Robert Rice (bass), Christopher Royall (alto), Jon English (tenor) & Julian Clarkson (bass)
St Paul’s Cathedral...
This series is the richest treasure trove an Anglican musician or English choral buff could hope to find. Texts and notes are an Anglophile’s dream. Sound is stunningly rich and ringing —
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25 Carols For Christmas
David Briggs (organ), Simon Preston (organ), John Lambert, Christopher Hughes, Simon Haynes, Roy Robertson, Robin Barter, John Bowen (treble), Graham Green, Choir of King's College Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury, Sir David Willcocks
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In The Stillness
Jervaulx Singers, Charlie Gower-Smith, Alison Frances Gill, Beth Moxon (soloist), Gareth Meirion Edmunds, Edmund Danon
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Sounds and Sweet Airs - A Shakespeare Songbook
Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Roderick Williams (baritone), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Sampson’s vocal security throughout the registers, clear diction, and patrician phrasing all testify to a complete artist. And Sampson proves every bit as much at home in the modernist works... —
