Choral, Whitbourn (composer)
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100 Years of Nine Lessons & Carols
RecommendedKing’s College Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury,Sir David Willcocks, Sir Philip Ledger
The opening track from 1958 sets the basic tone: the singing’s precise, sunny and rather dainty. Yet extra gusto soon arrives, and the modern carols Cleobury commissioned certainly stop tradition... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 30th November 2018
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Special offer. Arise My Love - Music For the Break of Day
Alexander Potts, Flavius Dumitru, Alexander Pott, Henry Morris, Julian Hartley (tenor), Maurice Cole (tenor), Aidan MacLean (tenor), Ioan O'Reilly (bass-baritone), Blaise Durodie, Joseph Wragg (bass-baritone), Sadie Bosher (vocalist), Joshua Kenney (tenor), John Morshead (bass-baritone), Choir of...
The choir sings with a classic English cathedral sound: softedged attack, little concern for hyper-precision, and a treble sound marked by a gentle, airy breathiness...Not every piece convinces... —
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The Song of the Stars
British Music for Upper Voice Choir
Eleanor Turner (harp) & Elliot Launn (piano)
Wells Cathedral School Choralia, Christopher Finch
It’s impossible to express too emphatically just how good the girls of the Wells Cathedral School Choralia sound on this new collection of music for upper voices. The 24 singers together create... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2015, Editor's Choice
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Sing, Precious Music
Five Centuries of Music from Magdalen
The Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford, Mark Williams
The Chapel of Magdalen College, Oxford has boasted a choir for nigh on five and a half centuries; and, recorded in the Chapel of Merton, this eclectic love letter to itself tracks a snapshot... —
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James Whitbourn: Living Voices
Jeremy Powell (soprano saxophone) & Ken Cowan (organ)
Westminster Williamson Voices, James Jordan
Tonal, tuneful, technically accessible, harmonically palliative: James Whitbourn's music ticks many of the boxes beloved by choral societies...James Jordan directs the Princeton-based choir... —
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Carols for Choirs 6
Stuart Nicholson, The Oxford Choir, Bob Chilcott (director), David Hill, B. E. Boykin, Joy Sutcliffe (soloist), Errollyn Wallen, Amy Blythe (soloist), Tom Perkins (soloist), Ed Saddington (soloist), Joanna Forbes L'Estrange, Toby Young, Joel Thompson, Ben Davies (soloist), Vicente Chavarria, Fiona...
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Whitbourn - Luminosity
and other choral works
Christopher Gillett (tenor), Levine Andrade (viola), Henry Parkes (organ), Andrew Ker (percussion) & Steffan Jones (percussion & tanpura), Desmond Tutu (speaker)
Commotio, Matthew Berry
The music itself proves striking enough in this glowingly committed performance by the Oxford chamber choir Commotio...superbly sympathetic. —
