1 January 1900

Christmas Vespers at Westminster Cathedral
CDA67522 

‘Westminster Cathedral Choir and Martin Baker give us a rich evocation of the complete service of Vespers at the Cathedral as it is currently sung. If you close your eyes you can almost smell the incense’ (MusicWeb International)
1 January 1900

Christmas with St John's
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'This is a highly enjoyable and superbly performed Christmas collection. It respects the traditions of Christmas music but provides plenty of examples of how composers are developing that tradition in exciting ways' (MusicWeb International)
1 January 1900
Classic FM Magazine
Classical Trumpet Concertos
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‘The stylish and spirited playing soon engages 21st-century ears’ (Classic FM Magazine)
1 January 1900
Fanfare, USA
Classical Trumpet Concertos
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‘Much of the repertoire on this release has been explored before, but few have distinguished themselves as well as Crispian Steele-Perkins. The performances are top-notch’ (Fanfare, USA)
1 January 1900

Classical Trumpet Concertos
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‘A pioneering and generous enterprise deserving plaudits galore’ (Gramophone)
1 January 1900
Early Music Review
Clemens: Requiem & Penitential Motets
CDA67848 

‘The disc admirably addresses a gap in the market with highly expressive performances of a beautiful requiem and a series of exquisitely crafted motets, which illustrate powerfully Clemens' great gift for both melody and harmonic adventurousness and intensity of expression’ (Early Music Review)
1 January 1900

Clemens: Requiem & Penitential Motets
CDA67848 

‘The setting of Mass for the Dead understandably gets top billing, for despite its modest scale and simplicity, it is an affecting piece, as its opening movements signally testify. The Brabant Ensemble sing this with admirable clarity, assisted by a very transparent acoustic and recorded sound image’ (Gramophone)
1 January 1900

Clemens: Requiem & Penitential Motets
CDA67848 

‘Sympathetically recorded and with excellent booklet notes by Rice, this is another fine release by an ensemble that could be seen as stemming from the same tradition as The Tallis Scholars, i.e a chamber choir bringing before the public little-known repertoire, the worth of which it passionately believes in. It does it every bit as well, too’ (International Record Review)
1 January 1900

Clemens: Requiem & Penitential Motets
CDA67848 

‘This is the second recording by The Brabant Ensemble devoted to Clemens … together they go some way to convincing us that he was one of the better composers of the 16th century … here we get good tuning and chordal singing that glows from within’ (BBC Music Magazine)
1 January 1900

Clementi: Capriccios & Variations
CDA67850  2CDs for the price of 1 

‘This enticing seventh (and final) volume of Clementi's works for solo piano is a notable achievement on several levels. The same team … have combined to produce no fewer than 14 CDs of remarkably uniform quality, insight and interest in a mere 4 years … there are over 152 minutes of music on the present discs, much of it demanding. How Shelley manages to absorb it all and then convince you that he has been playing it all his life with his characteristic elegance and dexterity is a gift given to few. Such an eminent composer deserves no less’ (Gramophone)
1 January 1900
Hi-Fi News
Clementi: Piano Sonatas
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‘Demidenko brings enormous gravitas and spirituality. The fire and dash he lavishes on the quicker movements make this highly enjoyable disc no less exciting than any of his Medtner, Chopin or Rachmaninov releases on Hyperion’ (Hi-Fi News)
1 January 1900
Soundscapes, Australia
Clementi: Piano Sonatas
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‘If your acquaintance with Clementi's output is limited to the Op 36 Sonatinas you dutifully practised in your youth, Demidenko's exalted interpretation of Clementi will come as nothing short of a revelation. This release serves as a landmark recording of these unjustly neglected masterworks’ (Soundscapes, Australia)
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