Hi Res Download, Machaut (composer)
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Camerata Bern accompanies the violinist on this latest foray into the meaning of life, the universe and everything. —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2019, Concerto Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2019
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2019, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Assorted Program
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Shortlisted - Chamber
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Machaut: A Lover's Death
Matthew Venner (countertenor), Mark Dobell (tenor), Donald Greig (baritone), Angus Smith (tenor), Orlando Consort
The Orlando Consort’s complete songs of Machaut is concluded...all 11 albums with the same four singers, all beautifully controlled, all perfectly balanced and paced, and – perhaps most important... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2025, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2026, Nominated - Early Music
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Conceived as ‘an audio voyage’, this programme makes associations between diverse repertoire through timbre, texture, colour and ‘affect’...In the hands of a gifted virtuoso like Eller, one... —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2021, Instrumental Choice
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Song of Beasts
Fantastic Creatures in Medieval Songs
Ensemble Dragma, Jane Achtman, Agnieszka Budzińska-Bennett, Marc Lewon
Animal magic as never before...If you’ve seen creatures depicted in carvings on church pews, ivories, or in the bestiaries popular in the period, you’ll respond to these spare, atmospheric songs...Nothing... —
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The wind ensemble is most effective in the rousing battle pieces, where one senses less the absence of words and voice. Blondel’s playing throughout is finely controlled – phrased and articulated... —
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A Dies Irae is an apt place for Prohaska to begin her musically wide-ranging exploration of ‘life in death’, and the gloom is leavened by lightness elsewhere. There are early musical delights,... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, March 2022
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There is plenty of lovely piano-playing here, from a fleet-footed Bach Chromatic Fantasy to an architecturally conceived Isolde’s Liebestod, which is my personal highlight. The choices of repertoire... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, February 2019
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Saltarello
Garth Knox (fiddle, viola, viola d'amore), Agnès Vesterman (cello) & Sylvain Lemêtre (percussion)
Bringing all this music seamlessly together are the remarkable sonic possibilities offered by the combination of cello and viola or viola d'amore. A fiddle and electronics are added for good... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2012, Editor's Choice
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Machaut: Songs from Le Voir Dit
The Orlando Consort: Matthew Venner (countertenor), Mark Dobell (tenor), Angus Smith (tenor) & Donald Greig (baritone)
[Venner and Dobell] display the most magnificent articulation of the texts alongside the understanding of the lines gained from their senior colleagues...Those who know the Orlando Consort will... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Shortlisted - Early Music
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Here we get a mix of 13 songs and motets taken from across his output, sung with suavity and control…'Quant en moy/Amour' provides a lesson in quiet poise and ensemble —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2015, Editor's Choice
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