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The Binchois Consort, Andrew Kirkman
A Marriage of England and Burgundy - music of Busnois, Frye, etc [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Nov/2000 ] 'It is difficult to imagine more lucid or elegant performances. In a very short time, the Binchois Consort have established themselves as one of the very finest ensembles in the field' (Gramophone) |
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GUILLAUME DUFAY
Missa Puisque je vis & other works The Binchois Consort, Andrew Kirkman [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 1/Sep/2013 ] "This is of far more than just academic interest, since the poise and control of the performers is apparent everywhere; in a movement such as the Sanctus, the musical pleasure are hard to miss." ***** Five Stars (Pick of the Month) BBC Music... |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Music for Saint Katherine of Alexandria The Binchois Consort / Andrew Kirkman [ Hyperion / CD - released 31/May/2019 ] Admirers of Andrew Kirkman and The Binchois Consort will know what to expect of this group's recordings: not only carefully crafted programmes delivered with idiomatic flair (both of which may be taken for granted), but also lavishly illustrated... |
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ANONYMOUS
Music for the King of Scots The Binchois Consort / Andrew Kirkman [ Hyperion / CD - released 2/Apr/2021 ] "A compelling collection of late Mediaeval polyphonic choral music skilfully presented as if in the acoustic in which it was first heard." MusicWeb |
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JACOB OBRECHT / etc
Obrecht: Scaramella The Binchois Consort, Andrew Kirkman [ Hyperion / CD - released 30/Aug/2024 ] "It remains only to say that the solo male voices of The Binchois Consort are at the top of their form and that the presentation (with booklet material by Fitch and Andrew Kirkman) meets Hyperion's top standards." Gramophone |
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SERGEI PROKOFIEV / PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
Prokofiev: Cinderella / Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty (Children's Classics) Brian Cant (narrator) / National Symphony Orch of Ukraine / Theodore Kuchar (conductor) / Slovak State Philharmonic Orch. / Andrew Mogrelia (conductor [ Naxos Children's Classics / CD - released 27/Apr/2008 ] "Brian Cant has a nice, light and understated touch in his story-telling, with a bit of the Edith Evans for the Fairy Godmother and a touching wonderment to match Prokofiev's scintillating score." Daily Telegraph |
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HIERONYMUS PRAETORIUS
Magnificats & motets The Cardinall's Musick, Andrew Carwood (conductor) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Dec/2008 ] 'This superb disc … These are stunning performances, which is of course to be expected from this remarkable vocal ensemble … all are bathed in a richly texutred and highly variegated choral sound' (International Record Review) |
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ALLEGRI / PALESTRINA / ANERIO
Miserere & the music of Rome The Cardinall's Musick, Andrew Carwood (conductor) [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/Feb/2011 ] "This recording's breadth of moods, devices and styles is refreshing...More importantly, the vocalists use declamation to emote, transporting the listener from sorrow to transcendent joy." (BBC Music Magazine - Choral & Song Choice - March 2011) |
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THOMAS TALLIS
Tallis: The Votive Antiphons The Cardinall's Musick, Andrew Carwood (conductor) [ Hyperion / CD - released 27/Apr/2018 ] The monumental votive antiphon settings are among the highlights of Hyperion's Tallis recordings from Andrew Carwood and The Cardinall's Musick, the composer's evolving style a musical response to the religious vicissitudes of the time. |
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THOMAS TALLIS
Tallis: Missa Puer natus est nobis & other sacred music The Cardinall's Musick, Andrew Carwood (director) [ Hyperion / CD - released 25/Feb/2014 ] Gramophone Record of the Year-winning group The Cardinall's Musick continues its exploration of Tallis's sacred music. These recordings not only showcase the greatest repertoire of the English Renaissance in dazzling performances, but also illustrate... |
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WILLIAM BYRD
Byrd Edition Vol 13: Infelix ego The Cardinall's Musick / Andrew Carwood [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] "The commitment of singers and label alike is a cause for gratitude, perhaps even optimism. Congratulations to all concerned." Gramophone Award Winner 2010: RECORDING OF THE YEAR |
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WILLIAM BYRD
The Great Service The Cardinall's Musick, Andrew Carwood [ Hyperion / CD - released 15/Oct/2012 ] 'This new recording is something special. Whether it's because of the sheer experience of having sung so much of Byrd's music as to have assimilated his musical language utterly, or whether it's simply the raw musicianship and cultivated intelligence... |
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WILLIAM BYRD
Byrd Edition Vol 10: Laudibus in sanctis The Cardinall's Musick / Andrew Carwood [ Hyperion / CD - released 23/Nov/2006 ] 'If, according to Burney, the Mannheim orchestra of 1772 was 'an army of Generals', the Cardinall's Musick of 2006 is surely 'an exaltation of larks'... Performances of exquisite perfection' (International Record Review) |
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GUERRERO
Missa Congratulamini mihi The Cardinall's Musick / Andrew Carwood [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] "This latest addition to Guerrero's discography is especially to be welcomed for his fine Mass on a motet by Thomas Crecquillon...a joyful, extrovert piece, to which Andrew Carwood's singers respond with an equal measure of buoyancy and vigour."... |
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THOMAS TALLIS
Tallis: Lamentations & other sacred music The Cardinall's Musick, Andrew Carwood [ Hyperion / CD - released 25/Mar/2016 ] Superlative performances of the Tallis Lamentations make this penultimate volume in The Cardinall's Musick cycle something rather special. Andrew Carwood's typically inspiring commentaries further enhance an album to savour. |
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THOMAS TALLIS
Tallis: Spem in alium & other sacred music The Cardinall's Musick, Andrew Carwood [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Dec/2016 ] "Carwood moulds the structures to great effect, with wide ranging dynamics from hushed groupings of eight voices to the full force." Five Stars BBC Music |
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STEPHEN HARTKE
Hartke: The Greater Good (complete opera) Caroline Worra / John de Haan / Christine Abraham / Andrew Wentzel / Glimmerglass Opera Orchestra / Stewart Robertson [ Naxos American Opera Classics / 2 CD - released 17/Jul/2007 ] "Having amply demonstrated his ingenious skills and audacious imagination as a composer of symphonic and chamber works, Mr. Hartke emerges in this engaging live recording as an opera composer to reckon with." New York Times |
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THEODORE DUBOIS
Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor / Suite for piano and string orchestra in F minor / etc Cédric Tiberghien (piano) / BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Manze [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Jul/2013 ] "Piano Concerto No 2 of 1898 won't give you great tunes or high drama but it's attractive...The best of the three exhibits is the lighter and sprightly Suite...Vigorously supported...Tiberghien plays as though he loves every dancing note." The Times |
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DIETRICH BUXTEHUDE
Buxtehude: Membra Jesu nostri, BuxWV 75 The Chapel Choir of Trinity Hall, Cambridge; Orpheus Britannicus; Newe Vialles; Andrew Arthur (director) [ Resonus Classics / CD - released 1/Mar/2019 ] Following their ICMA award- nominated first album on Resonus (A Courtly Garland for Baroque Trumpet), period ensemble Orpheus Britannicus, with director Andrew Arthur, joins with The Chapel Choir of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and viol consort Newe... |
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GIAN CARLO MENOTTI
Menotti: Amahl and the Night Visitors / Sebastian: Ballet Suite Chet Allen / Rosemary Kuhlmann / Andrew McKinley / David Aiken / Leon Lishner / Orchestra and Chorus / Thomas Schippers [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 1/Jun/2011 ] "Best of all here is the wonderful conducting of Thomas Schippers, who finds more energy, more poetry and more pathos in Amahl than any other conductor I've heard: in Schippers's hands it is both moving and adorable, and this Naxos transfer by Mark... |