Choral, Christmas Carols, Bingham, J (composer)
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The centrepiece is a stunning performance of Peteris Vasks’s Plainscapes, three wordless linked movements…infused with a strong Pärtian flavour, with important roles for violin and cello, plated... —
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Their style of singing – perfectly blended vocal harmony, exquisite tuning, inventive phrasing, delicately poised textural clarity - provides a magical accompaniment to the warmth of the Christmas... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Issue 2023, Recording of the Month
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Judith Bingham: Choral Music
Jonathan Vaughn (organ), Finn Lacey (treble)
Wells Cathedral Choir, Matthew Owens
The whole setting memorably commingles an anxious, questing quality with glimpses of certitude and placidity, a balance sensitively struck in this assured Wells Cathedral performance. —
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2013, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Epiphany at St Paul’s
Huw Williams (organ), Jonathan Arnold (baritone), Robert Rice (baritone), Flann Corcoran (treble) & Mervyn Collins (tenor), Roy Rashbrook (tenor), Timothy Jones (baritone) & Robert Rice (bass), Christopher Royall (alto), Jon English (tenor) & Julian Clarkson (bass)
St Paul’s Cathedral...
This series is the richest treasure trove an Anglican musician or English choral buff could hope to find. Texts and notes are an Anglophile’s dream. Sound is stunningly rich and ringing —
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…this outstanding issue celebrates 20 years of carols newly commissioned for the annual Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols. The two CDs are stuffed with memorable settings - Jonathan Dove's... —
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2005, Christmas Special Choice
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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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Special offer. Journey Into Light
Music for Advent, Christmas, Epiphany and Candlemas
The Choir of Jesus College, Cambridge, Mark Williams
Another Oxbridge college, another fine mixed-voice choir, another gorgeously captured chapel acoustic (Mike Hatch engineering) - this selection of favourite pieces by mainly British composers... —
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Epiphany at St Paul's
Huw Williams (organ) (Roy Rashbrook tenor, Timothy Jones baritone, Robert Rice bass) (Jonathan Arnold baritone) (Christopher Royall alto, Roy Rashbrook tenor, Jon English tenor, Julian Clarkson bass) (Robert Rice baritone) (Flann Corcoran treble, Mervyn Collins tenor)
St Paul's Cathedral Choir,...
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Christmas at St John’s
A sequence of music leading from the darkness of Advent to the blazing light of Christmas, Epiphany and beyond
The Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge, David Hill (director of music)
The John’s choir, fielding what sounds like a vintage crop of trebles, sings throughout with its trademark mixture of refinement and gutsy energy —
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One Star, At Last
A selection of carols of our time
Eleanor Bron & Charles Collingwood
BBC Singers, Stephen Cleobury
