Choral, Magnificat & Nunc dimittis settings, Mundy, W (composer)
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Contrapunctus really knows what to do with these pieces and from the very first item...the tuning is superb and the ensemble rock solid. Moreover, Owen Rees's interpretations are revelatory... —
Awards:
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Sunday Times, 2015, Albums of the Year
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2015, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2015, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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The accomplished choir of New College, Oxford has around 30 singers and so we should expect a fulsome ‘churchly ’ sound, rather than a ‘concert ’ ensemble. Even so, in the opening work ‘A solus... —
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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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The Merton Collection: Merton College at 750
Anne Steppler (organ)
Choir of Merton College, Oxford, Peter Phillips & Benjamin Nicholas
In only a few years the choir has established itself as one of the leading collegiate choirs in the UK. This, its third disc for Delphian, confirms that it is now, surely, one of the jewels... —
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Special offer. Tudor Church Music
The Easter Liturgy of the Church of England
Oskar Peter (positive organ), Ambrosian Singers, John McCarthy
There’s a striking version of Taverner’s Benedictus in this album, and Gibbons’s own Benedictus is not far short in directness... McCarthy’s shaping of the music is impressive... The digital... —
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William Mundy: Sacred Choral Music
Christopher Royall (countertenor), Paul Nicholson (organ), The Sixteen, Harry Christophers
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The Treasury of English Church Music
1100-1965
Ambrosian Singers, Westminster Abbey Choir, Chichester Cathedral Choir, Guildford Cathedral Choir, St Pauls Cathedral Choir, Temple Church Choir, Denis Stevens, Douglas Guest, John Birch, Barry Rose, John Dykes Bower, George Thalben-Ball
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