CD, Kapsberger (composer)
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Charlston's mezzo is as dark and full-bodied as a good claret, and she offers highly expressive readings of the texts, plumbing their depths with cut-glass diction and a glorious range of colours... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2022
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2022, Choral & Song Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2023, Winner - Vocal
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Winners, Concept Album of the Year
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The creative and attentively researched programme knits together musical and textual threads into a fast-moving sequence...Orliński carries off the programme with great élan: his bell-like voice... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2023, Choral & Song Choice
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Sunday Times, 10 Best Classical Albums of 2023
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2024, Winner - Vocal
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Händel Goes Wild
(jewel-case)
Valer Sabadus (countertenor), Nuria Rial (soprano)
L’Arpeggiata, Christina Pluhar
Whether or not you like this kind of project, this one is expertly and beautifully done, with Handel’s lyrical greatness remaining plain for all to see. —
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2018, Winner - Ensemble (instrumental)
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Kenny lacks neither extensive playing experience in chamber, orchestral or operatic contexts nor a brilliant musical imagination. She brings both to bear on these performances of ‘old and new... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2020, Finalist - Instrumental
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Heroines of Love and Loss
vocal chamber music from the 17th century
Ruby Hughes (soprano), Mime Yamahiro Brinkmann (cello) & Jonas Nordberg (lute / theorbo / archlute)
Ruby Hughes’s soprano has an effortless beauty: pliant, subtly expressive, never forced. She captures the chaste fervour of the sacred works…Brinkmann and Nordberg proffer aptly spontaneous... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2017, Editor's Choice
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The clutch of Spanish songs is enthralling...Despite the machine having so many intricate moving parts, there is enjoyable coherence to the broader ebb and flow of this imaginative programme —
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a programme which throws the 'authenticity' creed to the wind, evaporating the distinction between past and present. —
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Seicento stravagante: Music for Cornetto & Keyboard
David Brutti (cornetto), Nicola Lamon (harpsichord/organ)
The organ playing of Nicola Lamon is clear and a wonderful partner to David Brutti’s fabulous playing. He has a complete mastery of the instrument, performing the often technically challenging... —
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Record Review, 25th February 2023, Record of the Week
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Vividly recorded in St Barnabas Church, Walthamstow, "Cupid's Ground Bass' is perhaps not so much a temple, more an intimate theatre where all the colour and splendour of the Venetian opera... —
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The Last Rose
Mathilde Vialle (bass viol), Thibaut Roussel (lute), Ronan Khalil (virginal), Zachary Wilder (tenor)
The recording culminates in the titular ‘’Tis the last rose of summer’, arranged by Roussel and Vialle. It’s a gorgeous, poignant end that encapsulates the project’s essence: the delicate preservation... —
