Winner: Baroque Vocal category in the Gramophone Awards is..

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Seán
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Winner: Baroque Vocal category in the Gramophone Awards is..

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Here's the winner of the Baroque Vocal category of the Gramophone Awards - Bach Motets from the Monteverdi Choir & Orchestra Ltd and John Eliot Gardiner on SDG.
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Re: Winner: Baroque Vocal category in the Gramophone Awards

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It would want to be a very good ensemble to beat the Monteverdi Choir methinks.
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Re: Winner: Baroque Vocal category in the Gramophone Awards

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The recording is glorious and it deserves the award, but then, there were other equally deserving baroque vocal recordings:

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And my own favourite:

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