Musik

Royal odes


Anmeldelser (3)


BBC music magazine

2021 April

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Anthony Pryer

2021 April

"Thirty years ago Robert King recorded all of Purcell's odes and welcome songs in eight volumes. He has now returned to three of the works here ... It was worth it ... In Welcome Glorious Morn for Queen Mary in 1691 we reach a higher musical level. Both Carolyn Sampson and Matthew Brook suavely maintain their vocal lines against the ingenious but busy aria accompaniments, and Robert King draws extra sparkle from Purcell's pairs of oboes and trumpets".


Fono Forum

2021 August

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Martin Hoffmann (musikanmelder)

2021 August

"Gibt es die perfekten Vokalsolisten für Henry Purcells Werke? Ja! In dieser Produktion sind sie vereint in einem Ensemble, das die Idiomatik dieser Musik gleichsam mit der Muttermilch aufgesogen hat ... Mit Trompeten und Oboen angereichert und mit zahlreichen Echoeffekten ausgestattet entfaltet Purcells "Welcome"-Ode aus dem Jahre 1691 dann barock-englischen Glanz".


The gramophone

2021 March

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Alexandra Coghlan

2021 March

"Editor's choice: It's hard to imagine these performances bettered. This is music Robert King and The King's Consort have recorded before, but there's a sheen and poise to these new accounts - crisper, softer-edged, less obviously extrovert - that brings everything into focus. It helps that King has assembled another crack team of singers who double as soloists and ensemble ... The band is, if anything, even better".