Crouch End Festival Chorus
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Parry: Scenes from Shelley's 'Prometheus Unbound'
RecommendedSarah Fox (soprano), Dame Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), David Butt Philip (tenor), Neal Davies (baritone), Crouch End Festival Chorus, London Mozart Players, William Vann
Vann has mustered a fine team of soloists. Neal Davies is a commanding Prometheus, while David Butt Philip relishes the ringing Wagnerian Heldentenor declamation Parry allots to Jupiter...Vann’s... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2023, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023, Shortlisted - World Premiere Recording (Rediscovery)
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2023
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Shortlisted - Choral
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Finalist - Choral
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Parry: Judith
RecommendedSarah Fox (soprano), Kathryn Rudge (mezzo-soprano), Toby Spence (tenor), Henry Waddington (bass-baritone)
Crouch End Festival Chorus, London Mozart Players, William Vann
On the evidence of these CDs, conductor William Vann totally believes in this piece; he offers a compelling reading, drawing from the excellent Crouch End Festival Chorus and LMP (all of whom... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 21st February 2020
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Record Review, 7th March 2020, Record of the Week
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2020, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Shortlisted - Choral
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Elgar: The Kingdom
Francesca Chiejina (soprano), Dame Sarah Connolly (mezzo), Benjamin Hulett (tenor), Ashley Riches (bass-baritone)
London Mozart Players, Crouch End Festival Chorus, David Temple
Previous releases of The Kingdom by Boult, Slatkin, Hickox and Elder all have their attractions, but Temple yields to none of them in his consistently cogent and energised interpretation. His... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2025, Editor's Choice
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David Bedford: Alleluia Timpanis
Piers Adams (recorders)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Crouch End Festival Chorus, Jac van Steen, Martyn Brabbins
Someone who can combine the shimmering sounds of Sixties texture music with greater consonance than most would dare deserves his place in the sun. —
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Arnold Rosner’s 1970s Requiem is a massive work, drawing on multiple secular and religious texts. It’s an intense experience, but certainly not without its emotional rewards. —
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2020
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New. Masters of the Universe (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Daniel Pemberton & Brian May, Daniel Pemberton, The Darkness, Justin Hawkins (leadvocalist), Crouch End Festival Chorus, London Voices
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Felix & Fanny Mendelssohn: Choral Works
Julia Doyle (soprano), Jess Dandy (contralto), Mark Le Brocq (tenor), Ashley Riches (baritone), Crouch End Festival Chorus, London Mozart Players, David Temple
Temple really has the measure of this highoctane music, his approach confident yet persuasive, refined yet incisive. The chorus convey perfectly the textual inflections, with authentic German... —
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Bach, J S: St John Passion, BWV245
Sophie Bevan (soprano), Robin Blaze (countertenor), Benjamin Hulett (tenor), Robert Murray (Evangelist), Andrew Ashwin (Pilate, Peter), Neal Davies (bass-baritone), Ashley Riches (Jesus) & Peter Jaekel (organ)
Crouch End Festival Chorus & Bach Camerata, David Temple
there’s plenty to recommend a recording – purposefully conducted by David Temple – that also swims against the tide with a hefty 100-plus chorus mustering venom aplenty. The solo line-up is... —
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The Best of John Williams
The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, London Music Works, Crouch End Festival Chorus
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Scenes & Themes - Film Music
David Temple (chorusconductor, chorusmaster, chorusdirector), Gareth Williams (keyboard, synthesizer), Mark Ayres (keyboard, synthesizer), London Music Works, Christophe Clad (violin), Michael Leo Hurwitz (cello), Rick Clark (guitar), Peter Dominic Lale (viola), Dave Heath (bassflute), Lisa Germaine...
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