Download, Bull, J (composer)
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Armstrong’s playing is both expressive and technically brilliant, a combination here in constant demand as the ornamentation is intricate and often dizzyingly fast. And they run the emotional... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2021, Editor's Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, August 2021
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2021
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Presto Recording of the Week, 17th December 2021
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superb voicing and clarity of sound. Most pieces are sombre in tone, which Rondeau delivers with a well-judged pinch of melancholy. —
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2021, Editor's Choice
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Less dramatic [than Kit Armstrong's 2021 album] but more even-tempered and sometimes even delightfully sentimental, Momen’s approach is different but no less satisfying. I admired Armstrong’s... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 5th July 2024
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalists 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Early Music
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Sunday Times, 20 Best Classical Albums of 2024
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Pienaar displays his collections thematically, connecting dances and variations, imitative and evocative works that suggest battles and birdsong, that paint portraits, tell stories and write... —
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2020, Instrumental Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2020, Editor's Choice
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Fretwork takes everything in its expertly burnished stride. Muhly’s provocative vigour is answered by the soulful musings of the Bryars, and a consort respray of Bull’s keyboard In Nomine in... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2020, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2020, Chamber Choice
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These works have sometimes been handled as trifles or decorative miniatures, but Iranian-American harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani treats them as profoundly expressive and introspective works.... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2018, Instrumental Choice
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2019, Nominated - Instrumental
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In Chains of Gold: The English Pre-Restoration Verse Anthem Vol. 2
RecommendedWilliam Byrd to Edmund Hooper: Psalms and Royal Anthems
Magdalena Consort, Fretwork, His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts, with Silas Wollston (organ)
The underpinning scholarship doesn’t just run to artful reconstructions, teasing missing viol parts out of extant organ sources…The grainy, dark hues of Fretwork’s viols lend extra introductory... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th June 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Put aside your awareness of the accordion as ‘modern’, the gamba as ‘ancient’, and just listen. Their timbres, their ranges, their sonorities perfectly complement each other, as does these musicians’... —
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