Jess Dandy
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Barber: The Complete Songs
RecommendedDylan Perez (piano), Samantha Clarke, Soraya Mafi, Louise Kemény, Mary Bevan (sopranos), Fleur Barron (mezzo), Jess Dandy (contralto), Nicky Spence (tenor), Dominic Sedgwick, Julien Van Mellaerts (baritones), William Thomas (bass)
Navarra String Quartet
Dylan Perez’s pianism is consistently insightful without obtruding – a tall order for any accompanist – and his curating of the entire project is masterly...These two discs undoubtedly set a... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2022
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2022, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2022
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Gramophone Awards, 2023, Shortlisted - Song
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Handel: Rodelinda
RecommendedLucy Crowe (Rodelinda), Iestyn Davies (Bertarido), Joshua Ellicott (Grimoaldo), Brandon Cedel (Garibaldo), Jess Dandy (Eduige), Tim Mead (Unulfo), The English Concert, Harry Bicket
Bicket’s artistic integrity makes his the definitive Rodelinda. His subtlety pays off especially in slow movements, which are more suspenseful and ravishing than in any previous recording...Crowe’s... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2021
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Presto Recording of the Week, 14th May 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2021, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2021, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2021
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Baroque Vocal
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2022, Shortlisted - Opera
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Handel: Samson
RecommendedJoshua Ellicott (tenor), Sophie Bevan(soprano), Fflur Wyn (soprano), Mary Bevan (soprano), Jess Dandy (contralto), Hugo Hymas (tenor), Matthew Brook (bass), Vitali Rozynko (bass-baritone)
Dunedin Consort, John Butt
Butt has created the best Samson ever...These choral forces make for a vibrancy unique among Samson recordings…Butt’s deep grasp of both Handel’s rhetoric and of large-scale structure turns... — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Baroque Vocal
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Critics' Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Finalist - Choral
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2021, Shortlisted - Choral
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Ralph Vaughan Williams: Pan's Anniversary and Other Works
William Vann, Timothy West, Samuel West, Mary Bevan, Sophie Bevan, Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, Britten Sinfonia
The vernal setting of that 1905 production with its costumed actors, dancers and musicians undoubtedly cast a spell. Stripped of these visual elements, and with Vaughan Williams not quite his... — More…
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Special offer. Shostakovich: Symphony No. 14; Six Verses of Marina Tsvetayeva
Elizabeth Atherton (soprano), Peter Rose (bass), Jess Dandy (contralto), BBC Philharmonic, John Storgårds
The BBC Philharmonic under John Storgårds, in this third instalment of their symphonic Shostakovich series, are exemplary, whether in the sotto voce opening of the Symphony, or in the horrif... — More…
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Vivaldi’s use of colour and texture is, like the great Venetian painters before him, one of the defining characteristics of his style – as La Serenissima’s new disc vividly demonstrates. This... — More…
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Mahler: Symphony No. 8
Carolyn Sampson, Jacquelyn Wagner (sopranos), Sasha Cooke (mezzo), Jess Dandy (contralto), Barry Banks (tenor), Julian Orlishausen (baritone), Christian Immler (bass-baritone), Minnesota Chorale, National Lutheran Choir, Minnesota Boychoir, Angelica Cantanti Youth Choir, Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo...
the trio of ‘penitent women’, dynamically careful, is a real beauty…The amateur choruses catch the fervour of the event, and a seraphic trumpet distinguishes the final massive optimism. — More…
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David Matthews: Complete String Quartets, Vol. 5
Rebecca Lea, Jess Dandy, James Robinson, Will Dawes, Kreutzer Quartet
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Stanford: Mass 'Via Victrix' & At the Abbey Gate
Kiandra Howarth (soprano), Jess Dandy (contralto), Ruairi Bowen (tenor), Gareth Brynmor John (baritone)
BBC National Chorus & Orchestra of Wales, Adrian Partington
Rescued from obscurity nearly a century after its composition, Stanford’s large-scale post-war mass is definitely worth checking out. Impassioned performances here. — More…
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Mozart: Mass in C Minor & CPE Bach: Heilig Ist Gott
Anna Dennis, Lucy Crowe (sopranos), Jess Dandy (contralto), Nicholas Mulroy (tenor), Robert Davies (baritone), Dunedin Consort, John Butt
Butt ’s vision for the Great Mass underlines Mozart ’s debt to Bach and Handel, full of ecclesiastical brilliance in the Credo and Sanctus thanks to Kemme’s historically informed trumpet and... — More…
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