Choral, Bednall (composer)
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Trinity’s mixed young adults are effortless in the ease with which they respond to Layton’s exacting demands. The ground is hit running with a Magnificat whose iterations of the word ‘magnify’... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2019, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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The vocal agility, character and superb blend that has made the group such a success in those 11 years is on display throughout. —
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Listening straight through this disc is a moving experience, for Layton has chosen a notable list of anthems. Highly recommended. —
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News of Great Joy: Christmas From St John's College, Oxford
The Choir of St John's College, Oxford
David Bannister
The performances are, in the best sense, unpretentious – there’s no straining after forced jollity or attention-grabbing effects, and each individual voice is comfortably embedded within the... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2024, Christmas Choice
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Sanctissima
RecommendedVespers and Benediction For the Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary
ORA Singers, Suzi Digby
Olivier Tarney’s awestruck depiction of the Assumption in In Homeward Flight – the only English-language setting on the programme – was the work which made the strongest initial impact on me,... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 18th August 2023
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Special offer. Sword in the Soul
Grier - Elgar - Bednall - Park
Samantha Bond (narrator), James Orford, Simon Callow (narrator), Brian O'Kane, Adrian Peacock (narrator), Samuel Pantcheff, Alison Ponsford-Hill, London Choral Sinfonia, Michael Waldron
this modern-day Passion is powerful, and crying out for regular performance...Grier’s Brittenish ear for melodies that sound inevitable even when they are far from it, his elegant astringency... —
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In the Stillness: A Merton Christmas
The Girl Choristers of Merton College, Oxford, Simon Hogan, Catrin Meek, Benjamin Nicholas
Joined by the lower voices of Merton College Choir, the Girl Choristers exhibit a crystalline clarity of tone in the traditional Rocking Carol, and full-voiced attack in Joubert ’s Torc he s.... —
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Bednall: Welcome All Wonders: A Christmas Cantata
The Choir of The Queen's College, Oxford, Owen Rees (director)
Bednall’s work makes a bright, immediate impression, the idiom, accessible without being superficial. —
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Natus: Music for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany
Shaun Turnbull (organ)
The Choirs of Blackburn Cathedral, Samuel Hudson
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New Music for Choir and Organ 2021
Toby Young, The Oxford Choir, Richard Pearce, James Whitbourn, David Bednall, Ed Saddington (soloist), Michael Higgins, Cecilia McDowall, Clifton Cathedral Schola Cantorum, Stephen Bryant, Bob Chilcott, Malcolm Archer, John Rutter
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