CD, Whitacre (composer)
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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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Pitch-perfect harmonies, in dreamily sumptuous sonics. —
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Meditatio: Music for Mixed Choir
Rakel Edda Guðmundsdóttir (soprano), Ragnheiður Sara Grímsdóttir (soprano), Thelma Hrönn Sigurdórsdóttir (soprano), Kirstín Erna Blöndal (soprano), Jóhanna Ósk Valsdóttir (alto), Helgi Steinar Helgason (tenor), Fjölnir Ólafsson (bass)
Schola Cantorum Reykjavicensis, Hörður Áskelsson
The singers have a distinctive timbre, with strength held in reserve in almost every item —
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Meyers plays with a glowing steadiness, her tone warm yet etched with loss. Her long, arching lines rise out of silence, flash briefly in the sun and dissipate like marine haze. —
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Cloudburst is the central piece here, a dazzling kaleidoscope of busy clamour, arcing lyricism, solo and spoken passages, sighing, handbells, wind chimes, inter alia. Whitacre was only 22 when... —
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VOCES8’s gorgeous sound, impeccable ensemble and intense responsiveness to text, harmony and melodic shape is all of the highest quality...when Whitacre deploys a touch more harmonic bite, his... —
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2023, Choral & Song Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Contemporary Music
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The famed King’s Singers attention to pin-point pitching, slick ensemble, and deft balances between the voices are present in abundance. The two Beatles arrangements are particularly successful…The... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2017, Editor's Choice
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Grammy Awards, 61st Awards (2019), Nominee - Classical Compendium
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A Pembroke Christmas
Emma Johnson (clarinet), Wallis Power, The Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge, The Pembroke College Girls' Choir, Anna Lapwood
Highlights include a numinous take on MacMillan’s O Radiant Dawn, Ailsa McTernan’s soaring solo in Patricia Van Ness’s ‘Archangelus’ and a performance of Kerensa Briggs’s A Tender Shoot, which... —
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Bathed in a haze of sound, the crystal-clear voices of Ensemble Altera delight in held suspensions and crunchy chords. Glorious! —
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Featuring four warmly accessible modern works, this is an album of terrific vitality which showcases the choir’s gorgeous breadth of timbre and precise sense of ensemble. —
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BBC Music Magazine, January 2025, Choral & Song Choice
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