Choral, Hymns, Pott (composer)
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a Christmas issue which is genuinely challenging and different…Martin’s music evokes in an extraordinary suggestive manner the theological paradox buried within the Eden story… The Gabrieli’s... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Disc of the month
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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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A Lullaby Carol: Christmas At Christ Church
Christ Church Cathedral Choir Oxford, Steven Grahl, Benjamin Sheen (organ)
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this Advent showcase features conductors Andrew Nethsingha and George Herbert and, fascinatingly, three iterations of the choir, with and without female voices – and though the performances... —
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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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Nowell Sing We!
Advent and Christmas Music at New College
Choir of New College Oxford, Robert Quinney
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Carols from Chelsea
James Orford (organ)
The Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, William Vann
Under the meticulous direction of William Vann, their reading of Howells’s A Spotless Rose is, well, spotless, while John Rutter’s Dormi, Jesu is saved from schmaltz and sung with the sweet,... —
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