CD, Guerrero, Francisco (composer)
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[Cardinall's Musick] encounters little difficulty in these well-written pieces...the singers are at their balanced best in Guerrero's Ave Maria for double choir, and their confident, perky attack... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Shortlisted - Early Music
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2010, Editor's Choice
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The Schola may be the Brompton Oratory’s parish choir but they are also a school ensemble whose back lines are made up of boys aged 18 and under, with the support of just six adult lay clerks.... —
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Miserere
A sequence of music for Lent, St Joseph, and the Annunciation
Peter Stevens (organ), William Gaunt (bass) & Peter Stevens (organ)
Westminster Cathedral Choir, Martin Baker
This is a disc for those who love the acoustic, the atmosphere and the musical traditions of the Roman Catholic Cathedral in London...This is a large choir, very good at big effects. The pacing... —
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this makes a terrific introduction to the wide-ranging output of the 16th-century Spanish composer-cum-priest. Only the occasional loose edge in the livelier works mars the otherwise highly... —
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Guerrero: Magnificat, Lamentations & Canciones
El León de Oro, Peter Phillips, Marco Antonio García de Paz
The 38-strong Spanish choir produces a sound that is rich yet at the same time remarkably intimate and crystalline. The group’s honorary director is Peter Phillips and something of the silvery... —
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Santiago a cappella
RecommendedRecording location: St Alban the Martyr, Holborn, London
Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner
A wonderful collection brilliantly sung. Only Mariam Matrem is a true pilgrim piece, but others (Lobo's Versa est) are a revelation. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 30th August 2010
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Maestros Del Siglo De Oro
RecommendedMasters From The Golden Century
Jordi Savall
La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Hespèrion XX
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Building a Library, May 2011, Featured
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The Music of Westminster Cathedral Choir
Andrew Reid (organ), James O'Donnell (organ), Iain Simcock (organ)
Westminster Cathedral Choir, David Hill
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