Choral, Christmas Carols, Jackson, Gabriel (composer)
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From the gorgeously shaped performance of Morten Lauridsen’s modern classic O magnum mysterium which opens the programme, to the urgent, ardent account of James MacMillan’s O radiant dawn which... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Disc of the month
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Nine Lessons & Carols: King's College Cambridge
RecommendedChoir of King's College Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury
Perhaps the lower voices aren't quite as smoothly blended here as they usually are at King's, but generally the level of achievement reached in these live performances is enviable. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 3rd December 2012
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Into This World, This Day Did Come
RecommendedCarols Contemporary & Medieval
Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, Geoffrey Webber
There are many highlights but Williams Sweeney's Scots dialect setting 'The Innumerable Christ' stands out for its daring other-worldliness, as do Stuart MacRae's bold re-imagining of 'Adam... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 30th November 2009
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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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Special offer. O Holy Night
Katherine Watson (soprano), Charlotte Ashley (soprano), Zoë Brookshaw (soprano), Nick Pritchard (tenor), Dominic Kraemer (bass), Samuel Pantcheff (bass), London Choral Sinfonia, Michael Waldron
All handsomely sung: there’s not a single dud track on this album —
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Dreamland
Contemporary choral riches from the Hyperion catalogue
Polyphony, Schola Cantorum of Oxford, Holst Singers, Wells Cathedral Choir, Tonus Peregrinus, The Choir of Royal Holloway, The Choir of Westminster Cathedral, The Choir of Westminster Abbey, The Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge, Stephen Layton, James Burton, Matthew Owens, Antony Pitts, Rupert...
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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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The Evening Hour
British Choral Music from the 16th and 20th Centuries
The Choir of Jesus College Cambridge, Mark Williams
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Gabriel Jackson: Sacred Choral Works I
World premiere recordings
Susan Hamilton (soprano) & Michael Bonaventure (organ)
The Choir of St Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh, Matthew Owens
Owens fully understands the character of an Anglican cathedral choir while, for their part, the Edinburgh choristers respond with superlative performances, full of spirit and vigour, compelling... —
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Rathbone's energetically bouncing arrangement of Gabriel's Message is a good place to sample the Vasari Singers' warmly engaged performances —
