Choral, Magnificat & Nunc dimittis settings, Tavener (composer)
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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 recital's radiant heart is Sheppard's Media Vite, but there are more highlights to come, including an outstanding reading of Holst's Nunc Dimittis, the flowing textures of Harris's Bring... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2008, Choral Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2007, Choral & Song Choice
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The award-winning group Voces 8 is well-known for its wide-ranging programmes and accomplished technical control...In Monteverdi's Cantate Dominum (this is his 1620 setting, not the 1615 one)... —
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Tavener: Song for Athene, Svyati & other choral music
St. John's College Choir, Cambridge, Christopher Robinson
If John Tavener's reputation were to rest solely on his unaccompanied choral music and nothing else, then his stature as one of the most striking and original composers working today would be... —
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Special offer. Peace I Leave With You - Music for the Evening Hour
Sebastian Hill (tenor), Milo Hodgkiss (tenor), Peter Brooks (bass-baritone), Alexander Pott, Benjamin Watkins (bass-baritone), Francis Brown (bass-baritone), Henry Isaacs, Maurice Cole (tenor), Choir of Magdalen College Oxford, Mark Williams
Among the contemporary offerings, the always responsive, well-integrated choral forces bring a serene, reverential simplicity to John Tavener’s setting of The Lord’s Prayer and in Roxanna Panufnik's... —
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This is a marvellous programme of Music for Advent and it is executed superbly by the Clare College Choir. It’s obvious that the standard built up during Timothy Brown’s long leadership, especially,... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 9th December 2013
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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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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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