Todd
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One doesn’t often find Thomas Tallis, Edward Elgar and John Tavener sandwiching Massive Attack, but the lovely Teardrop works astonishingly well in this mixed programme devoted to the concept... —
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From the gorgeously shaped performance of Morten Lauridsen’s modern classic O magnum mysterium which opens the programme, to the urgent, ardent account of James MacMillan’s O radiant dawn which... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Disc of the month
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A Pembroke Christmas
Emma Johnson (clarinet), Wallis Power, The Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge, The Pembroke College Girls' Choir, Anna Lapwood
Highlights include a numinous take on MacMillan’s O Radiant Dawn, Ailsa McTernan’s soaring solo in Patricia Van Ness’s ‘Archangelus’ and a performance of Kerensa Briggs’s A Tender Shoot, which... —
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Will Todd: Passion Music & Jazz Missa Brevis
Shaneeka Simon (vocals) & John Turville (piano)
St Martin’s Voices & Will Todd Ensemble, Will Todd
Shaneeka Simon would sound just as confident singing Broadway material and the St Martin’s Voices, for whom Passion Music was written, deliver the familiar words – John 3:16, 13:34, 15:13, the... —
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Is Will Todd slowly morphing into the new John Rutter? This soothingly mellifluous collection of 12 short choral pieces suggests as much. Tenebrae, a crack choir, sings it all immaculately. —
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Special offer. English Fantasy
Music for clarinet and orchestra
Emma Johnson (clarinet)
BBC Concert Orchestra, Philip Ellis
An amiable disc exploring the light end of contemporary clarinet composition in works written especially for soloist Emma Johnson. This is music that doesn’t make too many demands on the listener,... —
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The London-based chamber choir Sonoro was founded just two years ago, yet has already developed a strong individual identity. It is immediately evident in the brightly rhythmic account of Malcolm... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2018, Christmas Choice
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this is easily the best volume in the series so far. We often talk about the cragginess, the monumentality of Spanish polyphony but what’s striking here is the supple beauty and brilliance of... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2022
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Special offer. Good Night, Beloved
Alexandra Kidgell, Mark Dobell, George Pooley, Rob Macdonald, Christopher Glynn (piano), Jeremy Budd (tenor), Ben Davies, Julie Cooper, Kirsty Hopkins, The Sixteen, Harry Christophers
The album is an enchanting collection of works loosely themed around the night, from lullabies and nocturnes to the music of late-night revelry. The disc’s title track is a highlight: ‘Good... —
