Choral, Masses, MacMillan (composer)
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Special offer. Who Are These Angels?
New Choral Music by James MacMillan
Cappella Nova, Alan Tavener
Approachable without being apologetic, emotional but with a sense of dignity, the best of these works can both delight and challenge...Everything is performed with elegance and the requisite... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2012, Editor's Choice
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Vaughan Williams, Macmillan & Tavener: Choral Works
James Tweedie (treble), Robin Blaze (countertenor), Julian Stocker (tenor), Guy Cutting (tenor), Jonathan Brown (bass), Benji Rimington (treble), Stuart O'Hara (bass), Freddie Ursell Beer (treble), David Gould (countertenor), William Balkwill (tenor), David Martin (countertenor), Tristram Cooke (countertenor),...
James O’Donnell masterminds an account of Vaughan Williams’s Mass in G minor to rank alongside the finest to have come my way...In sum, this classy collection will surely give lasting pleasure. —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2024, Shortlisted - Choral
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Already in Gibbons’s Drop, Drop, Slow, Tears there are numerous indications of the elevated artistry of Paul McCreesh and the 22 singers of his Gabrieli Consort. —
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2012, Disc of the month
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MacMillan: Mass and other sacred music
Andrew Reid (organ)
Westminster Cathedral Choir, Martin Baker (Master of Music)
Martin Baker, in his CD debut as master of music, strikes sparks from the Westminster choir in a set of gripping performances which still sound freshly minted. —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2001, Editor's Choice
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Cappella Nova's sound is lightweight and translucent… by and large the performances are successful, soaring and exultant. —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2008, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Alpha & Omega: Choral Music by James MacMillan
Madeleine Mitchell (violin)
Cappella Nova, Alan Tavener & James MacMillan
Cappella Nova make James MacMillan's Missa Dunelmi sound much easier to sing than it is, and that's a compliment...Perhaps it helps having MacMillan himself directing: it's interesting his default... —
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2014, Choral & Song 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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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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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... —
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Meditatio: Music for Mixed Choir
Rakel Edda Guðmundsdóttir (soprano), Ragnheiður Sara Grímsdóttir (soprano), Thelma Hrönn Sigurdórsdóttir (soprano), Kirstín Erna Blöndal (soprano), Jóhanna Ósk Valsdóttir (alto), Helgi Steinar Helgason (tenor), Fjölnir Ólafsson (bass)
Schola Cantorum Reykjavicensis, Hörður Áskelsson
The singers have a distinctive timbre, with strength held in reserve in almost every item —
