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The exquisitely pure-toned performance α of Hildegard von Bingen's O viridissima, Virga at the outset makes clear that this will be a special recital...Christopher Lowrey elicits expressively... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Issue 2025, Christmas Choice
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A Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols: The Centenary Service
RecommendedChoir of King's College, Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury
This is a priceless record not only of the centenary of the most famous carol service in the world, but of the last to be directed by Sir Stephen Cleobury after 37 years at the helm of chapel... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th November 2019
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News of Great Joy: Christmas From St John's College, Oxford
The Choir of St John's College, Oxford
David Bannister
The performances are, in the best sense, unpretentious – there’s no straining after forced jollity or attention-grabbing effects, and each individual voice is comfortably embedded within the... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2024, Christmas Choice
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Christmas is often treated as a time of extroverted celebration, intimacy is the keynote of Noël, the Armonico Consort’s new seasonal collection. That’s partly because the choir has just eleven... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Issue 2023, Christmas Choice
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In Winter's House: Christmas With Tenebrae
RecommendedJoseph Edward, Grace Davidson (soprano), Joshua Davidson, Victoria Meteyard (soprano), Martha McLorinan (mezzo-soprano), Tenebrae, Nigel Short
Some might prefer Britten’s Ceremony of Carols to be a little rowdier, but this is otherwise a technically superb display of largely unfamiliar, and imaginatively chosen, festive music. One... —
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Building a Library, December 2024, Recommended Recording (A Ceremony of Carols)
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On Christmas Night
RecommendedCarols from St John’s College, Cambridge
John Challenger (organ)
The Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge, Andrew Nethsingha
The collective vocal heft of the ensemble's young choral scholars remains a potent weapon under Andrew Nethsinga's direction. He's a man of musical refinement, however, one ready and able to... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 5th December 2011
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The 12 superb sopranos and altos of the Corvus Consort sing the complex, close-knit textures of these works with delicacy and pinpoint accuracy. Louise Thomson’s immaculate, virtuosic harp playing... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2024, Recording of the Month
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All Things Are Quite Silent
The Pembroke College Girls’ Choir, The Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge, The Pembroke College Girls' Choir, Anna Lapwood
Rheinberger’s Abendlied is delivered with sumptuous, all-embracing delectation...At a single sitting, though, across the disc the choirs’ biggest asset – a malleable, velvety smoothness – turns... —
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Music for Flute by Women Composers: Susan Spain-Dunk, Pamela Harrison, Ruth Gipps, Madeleine Dring etc.
Anna Noakes, Leo Nicholson, Anthony Pike, Gabriella Dall'Olio
Noakes has selected works – many of which are world-premiere recordings – whose tonalities and sonorities build perfectly from one to another, showcasing the flute in conversation with its piano... —
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Poston: Carols & Anthems
Ciaran Yeo, Oliver Morrell, Roger Mullis (narrator), Alisha Ardeshna (narrator), Nina Vinther, Oliver Martin-Smith, Isabelle Blain, Alexandra McPhee, Selma Klemming, Tom Winpenny (organ), St. Albans Cathedral Girls Choir, Lay Clerks of St. Albans Cathedral Choir
