SACD, Arne (composer)
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Sounds and Sweet Airs - A Shakespeare Songbook
Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Roderick Williams (baritone), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Sampson’s vocal security throughout the registers, clear diction, and patrician phrasing all testify to a complete artist. And Sampson proves every bit as much at home in the modernist works... —
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Arne: The Judgment of Paris
Mary Bevan (Venus), Susanna Fairbairn (Pallas), Gillian Ramm (Juno), Ed Lyon (Paris), Anthony Gregory (Mercury), Andrew Mahon (bass)
The Brook Street Band, John Andrews
Expert in British esoterica, John Andrews secures generally cheerful and passionate performances from his cast and The Brook Street Band that certainly tickle the ear. But this is a curio, not... —
Awards:
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2019
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Special offer. Handel's Last Prima Donna: Giulia Frasi in London
Ruby Hughes (soprano)
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Laurence Cummings
Ruby Hughes’s vocalism fits Frasi’s song perfectly…Cummings turns even the rawest musical material into gold…this disc is a treat, illuminating why Frasi and her music commanded a huge following. —
