Davies, Walford
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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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The Psalms
Glen Dempsey, George Herbert, James Anderson-Besant, Choir of St John's College Cambridge, Andrew Nethsingha
Nethsingha treats each psalm as a mini tone-poem of vocal affects, each line inflected in distinctive ways to elicit meaning and emotion from the biblical text...There is a danger, of course,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2022, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2022
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The Agnus Dei by Tarik O’Regan, an ethereal and exquisitely worked setting, is worthy to stand alongside O taste and see, the communion anthem composed by Vaughan Williams for the 1953 coronation. —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023, Shortlisted - Technical Achievement
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2023, Technical Achievement
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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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Davies, Walford: Everyman
Elena Ferrari (soprano), Jennifer Johnston (contralto), Andrew Staples (tenor) & Pauls Putnins (bass)
London Oriana Choir & Kensington Symphony Orchestra, David Drummond
Henry Walford Davies's splendid oratorio was written and first heard in 1904, in the shadow of Elgar's Gerontius. Yet it was an immediate success and widely performed. But by the end of the... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2005, Editor's Choice
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The English Hymn - 5
Lead, kindly Light - Hymns of Faith and Assurance
Wells Cathedral Choir, Rubert Gough (organ), Malcolm Archer
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Favourite Military Bands
R.A.F Central Band, Grenadier Guards, Coldstream Guards, Royal Scots Greys, Irish Guards, Royal Marines
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Christmas at King's College Cambridge
Simon Preston (organ), Hervey Alan (bass-baritone)
Choir of King's College Cambridge, London Symphony Orchestra, David Willcocks
