Roth, A
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This is an ingenious and moving collection of pieces framed as the interplay between light and dark, and moving across the spectrum of such experiences...The harmonic languages of these pieces... —
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2025, Choral Choice
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Alec Roth: A Time to Dance
& other choral works
Grace Davidson (soprano), Matthew Venner (countertenor), Samuel Boden (tenor), Greg Skidmore (bass), Tim Harper (organ)
Ex Cathedra, Jeffrey Skidmore
A strong quartet of soloists move through the seasons…[and] all come together with the massed forces of Ex Cathedra (on typically fine form) for a stately Globe-style jig, bringing this immensely... —
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The Tallis is performed with a suitably gorgeous sound by ORA, even if this listener yearned for more sonic bite at times, but the choir soars in the disc’s new commissions. Alongside richly... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2017
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2018, Winner - Ensemble (choral)
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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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Gramophone Magazine, September 2014, Editor's Choice
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out of the bran tub comes my favourite Christmas choral disc of 2009 - Joy in the morning, another wide-ranging collection from Jeffrey Skidmore's excellent Birmingham-based choir, Ex Cathedra.... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 30th November 2009
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Alec Roth: Sometime I Sing
Music for Voice and Guitar
Mark Padmore (tenor) & Morgan Szymanski (guitar)
Light-footed, lyrical, Roth's settings range from Thomas Wyatt to Vikram Seth. They suit Szymanski's elegant guitar and Padmore's refined tenor, but devitalise folksongs like Scarborough Fair. —
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Romantic Residues
Songs for tenor and harp
James Gilchrist (tenor), Alison Nicholls (harp) & Jaime Martin (flute)
…an interesting and intelligent singer, well served by his distinguished accompanists. —
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Special offer. Alec Roth: A Road Less Travelled
Mark Padmore (tenor), Morgan Szymanski (guitar), Martha McLorinan (mezzo-soprano), Sacconi Quartet, Hugo Hymas (tenor), Nicholas Daniel (oboe)
Englishness may be an embattled concept politically at present, but it's even more slippery sonically. Composer Alec Roth's works play games with this musical identity, claiming, digesting and... —
