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Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 'Choral'
Amanda Roocroft (soprano), Fiona Janes (mezzo), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Neal Davies (bass)
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment & The New Company, Sir Charles Mackerras
The sleeve-note of this disc describes Beethoven's Ninth Symphony as 'euphoric', and that is exactly the word to apply to this performance. No passage from darkness to light here, but a pervasive... —
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this selection of arrangements for eight voices shows the group's undoubted vocal pedigree —
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Prokofiev: Excerpts from Cinderella & Romeo & Juliet
St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Yuri Temirkanov
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Grayston Ives: Requiem
Ronan Busfield, Dewi Rees, The Choir of Jesus College, Cambridge, Britten Sinfonia, Richard Pinel
a thoughtful, reflective and accessible piece, with delicate, exposed instrumental lines. A worthy debut. —
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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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Mackey: Asphalt Cocktail, Whitacre: October & Ticheli: Blue Shades
Julian Bliss (clarinet), Joby Burgess (percussion)
It might not be as clean as a studio recording, but it’s a cracking selection and rip-roaring fun. —
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Australian and Thai composers took part in a crosscultural exchange programme to commission and workshop these new works. The saxophone and piano are pushed to their limits and heard here in... —
