Gramophone Awards
2018
Shortlisted - Choral

Gramophone Magazine
February 2018
Editor's Choice

Joélle Harvey (soprano), Olivia Vermeulen (mezzo), Thomas Walker (tenor), Iestyn Davies (countertenor), Thomas Bauer (baritone)
Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen

Bach, J S: Magnificat, BWV 243
Bach, J C: Magnificat, E 22
Bach, C P E: Magnificat, H 772

"For [JS's] perennial masterpiece, Jonathan Cohen and Arcangelo snap into their festive sparklers with grand authority and lithe ebullience, sweeping effortlessly from verse to verse with considerable purpose...Arcangelo’s voyage into the sons’ Magnificats is no less well paced or astutely textured...Cohen and Arcangelo bring us an illuminated Bachian constellation of three canticles colliding in captivating relief." - Gramophone Magazine February 2018