Ruairi Bowen
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Special offer. English Hymn Anthems
Alison Balsom (trumpet)
The Choir Of King’s College, Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury
The King's performance [of the Parry] is predictably idiomatic, if a touch carefully preened and respectful...[Ireland's] is a more explicitly dramatic setting, and the singers seem to relish... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2015, Editor's Choice
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this disc is a particularly welcome unveiling of four rapturous sacred works…the music is a pleasant fusion of the rigorous Baroque idiom…and the then-fashionable style gallant, characterised... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 22nd April 2016
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2016
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Charpentier: Baroque Christmas
RecommendedSam Boden, Florian Störtz, Hilary Cronin, Edward Ross, Ruairi Bowen, Keri Fuge
English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, Christophe Rousset
Rousset nurtures suave sophistication throughout In nativitatem Domini canticum...A mirthful march is followed by the world-class choir and Rousset milking beauty and rhetorical intelligence... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 5th December 2025
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Special offer. Orchestral Anthems Vol. 2: Bairstow | Elgar | Ireland | Stanford | Walton | Wesley
Britten Sinfonia, Choir of Merton College Oxford, Benjamin Nicholas
By the clock, the most substantial work is Walton’s The Twelve which acquired its multicoloured orchestral respray to mark the Westminster Abbey 900th anniversary celebrations. Its opening is... —
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Orchestral Anthems: Elgar | Finzi | Dyson | Howells
Britten Sinfonia, Choir of Merton College Oxford, Benjamin Nicholas
Benjamin Nicholas maintains excellent control of his forces in a recording that is sonorously generous and forward in sound. The Merton choirs (including the soloists) are in fine voice and... —
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the superb new arrangements by Iain Farrington of King David and Sine Nomine are particularly well worth investigating. Ikon are in top form, immaculately disciplined and highly expressive. —
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Special offer. Proud Songsters: English Solo Song
Gerald Finley, James Gilchrist, Michael Chance, Lawrence Zazzo, Tim Mead, Ruairi Bowen, Andrew Staples, Ashley Riches, Mark Stone, Simon Lepper
Richly harmonised Edwardian salon settings of distinguished poetry mingle with mildly poignant, almost Ravelian (though avoiding that French master’s occasional acerbic tartness) post-World... —
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Delius: Hassan - Complete Incidental Music
Britten Sinfonia (chamber ensemble), Jamie Phillips, Zeb Soanes, Britten Sinfonia Voices, Frederick Long (bass-baritone), Ruairi Bowen (tenor)
How seriously was it taken in its day? More to the point, how seriously can we take it now? After listening, I really can’t say...But the music itself, stylishly delivered by the Britten Sinfonia... —
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Love is come again
Music for the Springhead Easter Play
The Monteverdi Choir, Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Solo and ensemble singing of exemplary quality adorn a sequence full of contrast: from medieval monody via all kinds of early polyphony (Gesualdo, Cornysh, Tavener, Morley, Byrd, Tallis, Gabrieli,... —
