Choral, Anthems & Motets, Finzi (composer)
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Trinity’s mixed young adults are effortless in the ease with which they respond to Layton’s exacting demands. The ground is hit running with a Magnificat whose iterations of the word ‘magnify’... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2019, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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British Music Collection - Gerald Finzi
RecommendedBryn Terfel, Philip Langridge, Donald Sweeney, Benjamin Luxon
Choir of Winchester Cathedral, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, David Hill, Richard Hickox, Edward Higginbottom, Neville Marriner
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Building a Library, December 2006, First Choice
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It's when the pedal goes down (literally and metaphorically) that this disc really soars, startling the ear into ecstasy with the sudden release of Rachmaninov's Cherubic Hymn, the 'bright Seraphim'... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2019, Editor's Choice
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Ascendit Deus: Music for Ascensiontide & Pentecost
Peter Harrison, Matthew Jorysz (organ)
Choir of Clare College, Cambridge & The Dmitri Ensemble, Graham Ross
the famous setting of Ascendit Deus by Peter Philips spurts forward like a colt sprung freshly from a stable, the vocal decorations spinning vertiginously round like Monteverdi. It's a bracing... —
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A Christmas Fantasia
Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, Jamie Andrews (organ), Ashley Riches (bass-baritone), William Vann
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In Terra Pax
RecommendedA Christmas Anthology
Julia Doyle (soprano), Roderick Williams (baritone) & Mark Williams (organ and piano)
City of London Choir & Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Hilary Davan Wetton
The gem here is Finzi's In terra pax… From late in Finzi's life, it is suffused with English pastoral yearning, and baritone Roderick Williams sings beautifully in the outer sections. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 30th November 2009
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Finzi, Bax & Ireland: Choral Music
Daniel Cook (organ), Sebastian Braw-Smith (treble), Julian Stocker (tenor), Julian Empett (bass), Jeremy Suppey (treble), Simon Ponsford (countertenor), Daniel Livermore (treble), Jonathan Brown (bass)
Westminster Abbey Choir, James O'Donnell
The choir’s diffuse tone – breathier in the upper voices than rivals at New College or even King’s Cambridge – is very effective —
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2017, Choral & Song Choice
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Orchestral Anthems: Elgar | Finzi | Dyson | Howells
Britten Sinfonia, Choir of Merton College Oxford, Benjamin Nicholas
Benjamin Nicholas maintains excellent control of his forces in a recording that is sonorously generous and forward in sound. The Merton choirs (including the soloists) are in fine voice and... —
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British Composers: A Celebration
RecommendedRichard Rodney Bennett (piano), Ian Hare (piano), Robert Tear (vocals), Sir Andrew Davis (piano), Bruce Russell (vocals), Richard Lewis (vocals), Monica Sinclair (vocals), Lewis Thomas (vocals), Geoffrey Walls (baritone), John Hauxwell (bass-baritone), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Wilfred Brown...
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Building a Library, June 2018, Also Recommended
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Special offer. Finzi - Sacred Choral Music
Choir of St John's College Cambridge, Christopher Robinson
The choir of St John's Cambridge have an evident affinity for music of this kind (which was written for just such choirs to sing) and present convincing accounts of a wide range of Finzi's sacred... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2002, Editor's Choice
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