Delphian
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My IRR colleague and lute afficionado Christopher Price has been an admirer of the Scottish musician Gordon Ferries for some time; this is the first time I have heard him – and I am impressed.... —
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Desenclos: Messe de Requiem, Salve Regina, Motets
The Choir of King’s College London, David Trendell
This Requiem will appeal to anyone who likes the settings by Fauré and Duruflé...David Trendell gets a first-rate performance from his choir, full of light and shade, and the few solo passages... —
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With two women in the group, they make no pretence at emulating what might have happened in the 16th century; but that lets them sing out with more freedom. So this is no-nonsense musicianship,... —
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Kenneth Leighton: Sacred Choral Works
Finn Hart-Brown, Joseph Beech, Carlo Massimo, Samuel Jenkins, Olivia Massimo, Nora Trew-Rae, Mark Wood, Thomas Eddleston, Alan Rowland, Choir of St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh, Duncan Ferguson
It’s Ferguson’s strong grasp of [Awake my glory’s] architecture which impresses, and the vibrantly assured responses of the singers in all four voice-parts…Throughout, organist Joseph Beech... —
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Poetry that seems indecipherable in print becomes astonishingly communicative when so well sung with no cognitive distance between their fine voices and the dialects at hand. —
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Eastern Reflections: Bartok Lutoslawski Weinberg Ligeti
Jonathan Leibovitz, Joseph Havlat, Charlotte Saluste-Bridoux
This album is the latest instalment in a collaboration between Delphian and the Young Classical Artists Trust. With informative booklet notes from Daniel Elphick and superb sound quality, it... —
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The Lamentations of Jeremiah
Lay Clerks of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, Timothy Byram-Wigfield
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Brahms: An English Requiem
Mary Bevan (soprano), Marcus Farnsworth (baritone), James Baillieu & Richard Uttley (piano)
The Choir of King's College London, Joseph Fort
Their ‘How lovely is thy dwelling-place’ has a nimble, self-effacing sweetness…Bevan consoles with richly penetrating ardour…Pianists Richard Uttley and James Baillieu glide ably through, generating... —
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Weelkes - Sacred Choral Music
Tewkesbury Abbey Schola Cantorum, Benjamin Nicholas & Carleton Etherington
There remains an intensity of passionate utterance in the most striking of Weelkes's works, balanced by a sober moderation in much else. He himself, as we learn from contemporary accounts, was... —
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Vividly alert to the widest range of styles and moods, Kitchen’s survey of music from the age of Louis XIV is a delight from start to finish. The 1755 Baillon instrument form the collection... —
