Benjamin Nicholas
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Special offer. Edmund Rubbra: Crucifuxus Pro Nobis
Choir of Merton College Oxford, Benjamin Hulett, Benjamin Nicholas
this is an atmospheric album from Merton College Choir, which paints the glory of God in strange and mysterious harmonies...The choir is beautifully delineated in the lower registers, but slightly... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2026, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Gabriel Jackson: The Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ
All tracks are premiere recordings
Guy Cutting (tenor), Emma Tring (soprano), Francesca Millar (soprano), Isabelle Blain (alto), Samuel Costello (tenor), Freddie Crowley (bass), Nicholas Trapp (bass)
Choir of Merton College, Oxford, Benjamin Nicholas
This outstanding recording of Gabriel Jackson’s retelling of the Passion story bursts with energy... Jackson’s engaging score is richly colourful and his instrumental writing proves a particular... —
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2019, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2019, Choral & Song Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2020, Winner - Choral
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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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Special offer. Ian Venables: Requiem & Herbert Howells: Anthems for Choir & Orchestra
Eppie Sharp, Aine Smith, Edmund Saddington, LucyAnne Fletcher, Choir of Merton College Oxford, Oxford Contemporary Sinfonia, Benjamin Nicholas
This isn’t music to shake mountains, but its craftsmanship, sincerity and ability to stir the more tender emotions – well reflected in this performance – remains undeniably appealing. —
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Gabriel Jackson: The Christmas Story
Oxford Contemporary Sinfonia, The Girl Choristers of Merton College, Oxford, François Cloete, Owen Chan, Choir of Merton College Oxford, Benjamin Nicholas
There’s often a strangeness to The Christmas Story – of instrumentation, style, text – that helps refocus the ear on a story blurred by over-familiarity. —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2024, Editor's Choice
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Bob Chilcott: Christmas Oratorio
RecommendedNeal Davies (bass-baritone), Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), Nick Pritchard (tenor), The Choir of Merton College, Oxford, Benjamin Nicholas
Chilcott uses the Evangelist, and Olivia Jageurs’s accompanying nimble harp, to give us those moments of rapt stillness that mark that certain Christmas magic, and also to change the flow amidst... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st December 2023
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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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Working in a broadly traditional style, he explores a harmonic world of blurred but euphonious richness, the writing skilled and unfailingly effective…These beautifully shaped performances by... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2018
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In the Beginning
Beth Mackay (mezzo-soprano) & Natasha Tyrwhitt-Drake (organ scholar)
Choir of Merton College, Oxford, Benjamin Nicholas & Peter Phillips (directors)
The 18 uninterrupted minutes of Copland's a cappella In the Beginning are a major test of any choir's stamina and concentration, and it's one the Mertonians pass with confidence...[Beth Mackay]... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2011, Editor's Choice
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Advent at Merton
Anna Steppler (organ)
Choir of Merton College, Oxford, Benjamin Nicholas & Peter Phillips
At the heart of this Advent service is a set of seven antiphons specially commissioned from seven composers for Merton College chapel. They work splendidly as a sequence...Peter Phillips and... —
