Choral, Masses, Vaughan Williams (composer)
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This latest recording once again showcases his singers' effortless versatility both as choristers and soloists...One of Tenebrae's great strengths is to bring both dignity and panache to these... —
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2025, August 2025
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2026, Winner - Choral
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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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The Feast of St Michael and All Angels at Westminster Abbey (Michaelmas)
Robert Quinney (organ)
The Choir of Westminster Abbey, James O’Donnell
The choir, atmospherically recorded in the Abbey itself, sings this demanding repertoire with its customary zeal and a well-blended sound, and the performances are directed with the panache... —
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Music for Remembrance
Roderick Williams (baritone), Christine Rice (mezzo-soprano)
Westminster Abbey Choir & Britten Sinfonia, James O’Donnell
This is an exquisite performance of the Durufle Requiem...The playing of the Britten Sinfonia is superb, Robert Quinney's fluid, immensely colourful organ-playing a joy to behold and Roderick... —
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Vaughan Williams: Dona nobis pacem & Hough: Missa Mirabilis
Christopher Maltman (baritone), Sarah Fox (soprano)
Colorado Symphony Chorus & Colorado Symphony, Andrew Litton
Vaughan Williams's Dona nobis pacem is a work that wastes no time cutting to the quick, and nor does this performance of it: in the opening Agnus Dei soprano Sarah Fox is immediately intense... —
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Extremely accomplished singing moulded into a coherent and eloquent whole. —
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Building a Library, January 2006, First Choice
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Some performances grip you from the outset, and this St John’s College recording of Vaughan Williams’s Mass in G minor is one of them. The Kyrie’s rapt inwardness is built on the outstandingly... —
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2018, Choral & Song Choice
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Vaughan Williams… musical personality shines out all through this selection of sacred and secular a cappella music… Mike Brewer's excellent chamber choir Laudibus sings with beautifully blended... —
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Special offer. Vaughan Williams: Sacred Choral Music
Thomas Fitches (organ)
Elora Festival Singers, Noel Edison
This fine Canadian choir perform very beautifully in a style which seems natural and right.
The Elora Festival Singers have much in common with King's College, Cambridge under Willcocks; relaxed... — -
Special offer. Duruflé & Howells: Requiems
Kirsten Sollek (mezzo), Richard Lippold (baritone), Frederick Teardo (organ)
Myron Lutzke (cello)
Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys, Fifth Avenue, New York, John Scott
This release of two gems of the choral repertoire, sung with both passion and poise, makes an ideal memorial to conductor John Scott, who died in post in 2015. —
