Hi Res Download, Gibbons, O (composer)
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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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An English Coronation, 1902-1953
RecommendedEdward VII, George V, George VI, Elizabeth II
Gabrieli, Paul McCreesh
Some may find the extensive spoken liturgy excessive but such is Simon Russell Beale’s compelling delivery that the sheer beauty of the words offers a musical diversion of a different kind.... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2019, Editor's Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2019
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Diapason d’Or, September 2019, Nouveauté
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2019
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2019, Nominated - Vocal
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Choral
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Critics' Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Finalist - Choral
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It’s the breadth – not just of repertoire but of sound, technique and approach – that makes it so arrestingly excellent… The musicianship here is dazzling, and nowhere more so than in Britten’s... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2020, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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The singers make a beautifully balanced sound with impressive fluency across each style...there is a pleasing tension between a consort blend and the vital quirkiness of individual voices...Jourdain’s... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2018, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2019, Finalist - Early Music
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The expertise of the Stile Antico group in this repertory is not in doubt and, as always, these singers give us splendid performances. Gibbon's O Clap Your Hand, for example, has a sure-footed... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th July 2013
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Shortlisted - Early Music
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The Lamb's Journey. A Choral Narrative From Gibbons To Barber
James Kennerley, Elijah McCormack (soloist), Michael Garrepy (soloist), Eleonore Cockerham (soloist), Ensemble Altera, Christopher Lowrey
Altera’s debut album is a superb showcase. Clean as a whistle and conf ident in exposed moments such as in Poulenc’s Agnus Dei, and immaculately balanced in richly scored textures elsewhere,... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Opera
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Vaughan Williams: Mantegna
James Orford (organ), Dulwich Choral Society, London Mozart Players, William Vann
In those numbers that remain as hymns, the Dulwich Choral Society is impressively disciplined in ensemble and intonation... James Orford gives a bravura performance in the solo organ numbers,... —
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Unanimity of phrasing and clean intonation are two strengths of the six Singers. They lend an extra degree of textural clarity to the modern harmonies of Judith Bingham's Ave Virgo Sanctissima,... —
