Choral, Magnificat & Nunc dimittis settings, MacMillan (composer)
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Sweet tuning and subtle dynamic distinctions mark James MacMillan’s Ave maris stella, with gleamingly pure-toned contributions from the soprano…Technically the most difficult piece is probably... —
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2018, Choral & Song Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2018
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2018, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Finalist - Choral
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Winner - Choral
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Gramophone Awards, 2019, Finalist - Choral
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2018, Winner - Vocal/Choral
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This is an ingenious and moving collection of pieces framed as the interplay between light and dark, and moving across the spectrum of such experiences...The harmonic languages of these pieces... —
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2025, Choral 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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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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MacMillan: Choral Music
William de Chazal (treble) & Jonathan Vaughn (organ), Simon Clulow (countertenor), Mark Hounsell (tenor), Dominic Bland (tenor) & Christopher Sheldrake (bass), Jonathan Vaughn (organ)
Wells Cathedral Choir, Matthew Owens
MacMillan's vocal writing can be dazzlingly virtuosic...Yet his shorter, simpler pieces are equally engaged with spirituality. The Wells singing is of a consistently high standard (MacMillan's... —
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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 —
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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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This album celebrates the 150th anniversary of Everlasting Light the Boys' Choir at Bath Abbey, and does so fulsomely. The high notes peppering Dyson's Magnificat in D are ringingly projected... —
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Song of the Angel
Jane Sheldon, Anna McDonald, Sally Whitwell, Sara Macliver, Belinda Montgomery, David Stanhope, David Drury, Leanne Sullivan, Paul McMahon, Brendon Lukin, Michelle Kelly, Nicole Forsyth, Peter Morrison
Sinfonia Australis, Cantillation, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Brett Weymark, Ola Rudner
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A shining service of contemporary works…The choir sing with tremendous fervour, clarity and power —
