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Messiah...Refreshed!
National Youth Choir of Great Britain, The Jonathan Griffith Singers, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Jonathan Griffith
A recording of Messiah in all its multi-coloured splendours as reimagined by Sirs Eugene Goossens and Thomas Beecham…To purists the additions are jaw-dropping. But striking too are the subtractions…Dishing... —
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If one needed reminding just what a sensationally good piece [the Schumann], this admirably clear recording would do the job more than adequately, and there aren’t many versions of the finale... —
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Special offer. Eric Whitacre: The Sacred Veil
Lisa Edwards, Jeffrey Zeigler, Charles Anthony Silvestri, Los Angeles Master Chorale, Eric Whitacre
The text was co-written by Whitacre and Charles Anthony Silvestri, whose wife Julie died of ovarian cancer at 36 in 2005. There is a pseudo-liturgical feel which recalls something of Karl Jenkins’s... —
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Winter Night
Andrea Zomorodian (soprano), Maximilian Cordoba (baritone), Isabelle Knowles (soprano), UCI Chamber Singers, Irene Messoloras
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Burton’s accompaniments are varied and skilfully adjusted to the mood of the individual songs … He has a soft and light baritone and he turns the phrases elegantly... [Fox] has a surefooted... —
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High Flight
Choral Music by Chilcott, Lauridsen & Whitacre
The King’s Singers, The King’s Singers and The Concordia Choir, The Concordia Choir, René Clausen (director)
[Chilcott highlights] the King's Singers' consummate skill as close-harmony singers, in particular their ability to terrace the dynamics as one section of the group slips into accompanying mode,... —
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Bach: Clavier-Übung III – the Organs and Choir of Saint Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue, New York
The Choir of St Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue, New York, Jeremy Filsell
Appointed the church’s organist and music director in 2019 he deploys all five instruments at his disposal...An impressive ‘tour’, then, both of St Thomas’s instrumental largesse, and Bach’s... —
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Anthem – Great British Hymns & Choral Works
Thomas Trotter (organ)
Huddersfield Choral Society, Aidan Oliver
Here is a large, full-bodied choir, singing in full voice and clearly having an absolute ball…Seek it out for the grandeur and gloriously robust sound of some great British coronation anthems... —
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