Choral, Christmas Carols, McDowall, C (composer)
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A new piece by Lapwood herself, Arise, Shine, opens the album, showcasing the Pembroke Chapel Choir's easeful unanimity of diction, and its warmly blended tonal profile. —
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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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A Pembroke Christmas
Emma Johnson (clarinet), Wallis Power, The Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge, The Pembroke College Girls' Choir, Anna Lapwood
Highlights include a numinous take on MacMillan’s O Radiant Dawn, Ailsa McTernan’s soaring solo in Patricia Van Ness’s ‘Archangelus’ and a performance of Kerensa Briggs’s A Tender Shoot, which... —
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Special offer. Carol of the Bells
Alexandra Kidgell, Edward McMullan, Mark Dobell, Robert Macdonald, Ben Davies, Rob Macdonald, Katy Hill, Tim Jones, Charlotte Mobbs, George Pooley, The Sixteen, Harry Christophers
The Sixteen have been around so long (40 years and counting) that it is easy to take them for granted. This newly recorded Christmas disc, however, acts as a sharp reminder of the choir’s abiding... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2021, Christmas Choice
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The London-based chamber choir Sonoro was founded just two years ago, yet has already developed a strong individual identity. It is immediately evident in the brightly rhythmic account of Malcolm... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2018, Christmas Choice
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A Ceremony of Carols
Laurence John, Lucy Wakeford (harp), The Choir of the Queen's College Oxford, Owen Rees
Light, agile and bright, The Queen’s Choir are a good advertisement for the traditional Oxbridge sound. Their upper voices – no countertenors here, incidentally – are fresh and agile, youthful... —
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Cecilia McDowall: Stabat Mater
and other works for voice/choir and orchestra
Eamonn Dougan (baritone), Gretel Dowdeswell (piano), Nigel Shipway (percussion), Charlotte Mobbs (soprano) & Eamonn Dougan (baritone), Clare Porter (soprano solo), Kathryn Thomas (flute), Catriona Scott (clarinet), Suzanne Willison-Kawalec (harp)
Martin Smith (violin), Sarah-Jane Bradley...
Heartfelt advocacy in beautifully prepared and recorded performances. —
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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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Now May We Singen
Music for Advent and Christmas
Ben Bloor (organ)
Westminster School Choir, Timothy Garrard
