Matthew Owens
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there's so much freshness, attack and palpable involvement...not least from the consistently excellent boy and girl choristers. Dove's music is splendidly effective and birghtly expressive. —
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Central to this valuable anthology of Mathias's church music is the tautly concentrated Missa brevis of 1973. It’s the outer movements that are most impressive, the Kyrie drawn tensely together... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2009, Editor's Choice
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Judith Bingham: Choral Music
Jonathan Vaughn (organ), Finn Lacey (treble)
Wells Cathedral Choir, Matthew Owens
The whole setting memorably commingles an anxious, questing quality with glimpses of certitude and placidity, a balance sensitively struck in this assured Wells Cathedral performance. —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2013, Editor's Choice
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George Lloyd: Requiem & Psalm 150
RecommendedStephen Wallace (counter-tenor), Jeffrey Makinson (organ)
Exon Singers, Matthew Owens
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Special offer. George Lloyd: Requiem and Psalm 130
Stephen Wallace, Jeffrey Makinson, The Exon Singers, Matthew Owens
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Written in 1978 for the West Riding Cathedrals Festival, A Sequence for All Saints is a major score for large choir and organ, its five sections running continuously and containing some of Leighton's... —
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Pachelbel’s subtle art is very well served by the organist Matthew Owens, so perhaps the only question mark hanging over this enterprise is whether it is also well served by wall-to-wall recordings...the... —
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Burgon: Choral music
David Bednall (organ) & Alan Thomas (trumpet)
The Choir of Wells Cathedral, Matthew Owens
This immensely appealing music is superbly sung by the Wells Cathedral Choir who prove to have excellent soloists. The vivid direction by Matthew Owens is greatly aided by David Bednall’s creative... —
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