The Passion of Mary Magdalene – The Herald Review
★★★★
Keith Bruce, The Herald
‘no-one could fail to be moved by the transcendent ending of Mary’s encounter with the risen Christ, perfectly sung by both soloists’
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Sean Shibe: Scottish Lute – The Herald Review
★★★★
Keith Bruce, The Herald
‘The playing was, of course, absolutely of the first rank.’
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Scattered Rhymes – The Herald Review
★★★★★
Keith Bruce, The Herald
‘Scattered Rhymes is…a startlingly original composition, and there are precious few groups that would attempt it, far less pull it off in such impressive style’.
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Echo Fragments – The Herald Review
★★★★
Keith Bruce, The Herald
‘Dunedin Consort’s four-piece horn section made their early music authenticity very evident by holding their instruments vertical, the bells pointing upwards.’
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Mozart C Minor Mass – The Herald Review
★★★★
Keith Bruce, The Herald
“Soprano Lucy Crowe… was in glorious voice on Tuesday evening, as was Anna Dennis, who had the first solo… when the pair combined, the effect was superb.”
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Dido’s Ghost – Edinburgh International Festival – The Herald Review
★★★★
Keith Bruce, The Herald
“There is no one hero in this work because it is an ensemble triumph, with conductor John Butt and the Dunedin Consort making a glorious success of Wallen’s clever mix of old and new music.”
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The Brandenburgs – The Herald Review
Keith Bruce, The Herald
★★★★
It is as fine an example of Johann Sebastian making a delicious meal of the simplest ingredients as there is, and was followed by a joyous brisk finale by way of dessert.
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Messiah – The Herald Review
Keith Bruce, The Herald
★★★★
It is not just the singers, but also the fine continuo players, and pitch-perfect baroque strings, led by Huw Daniel, who all have distinct, audible and individual contributions to make in a Dunedin Consort performance of Handel’s masterpiece…
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Requiem Aeternam – The Herald Review
Keith Bruce, The Herald
★★★★
… the variety of tonal colour this group of singers blended to produce made an otherwise very full and often fascinating sound.
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Samson – The Herald Review
Keith Bruce, The Herald
With the Consort’s best instrumentalists in place and Linn Records’ Philip Hobbs producing, this is an immaculate, and hugely important, recording. More prizes assuredly await.
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Lammermuir Festival – Opening Concert – The Herald
Keith Brown, The Herald
★★★★
[Dunedin Consort] play baroque music with a vivacity few can match.
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Handel Ode for St Cecilia’s Day – The Herald Review
The work packs a powerful punch in these hands, and nowhere more so than when Bostridge combines with the chorus in the aria hymning “the double, double, double beat/Of the thund’ring drum”.
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Magnificat – Top 20 Classical Recordings for 2015 – The Herald
Kate Molleson, The Herald
★★★★★
‘Hard to imagine a classier Christmas album.’
East Neuk Festival – The Herald Review
Kate Molleson, The Herald
The hunting horns were heroically ballsy, swinging the cross-rhythms to make the music really dance, and a breezy charisma from all players on stage made for lively, conversational music making
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