Delphian
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Airs from another Planet
Chamber music and songs by Judith Weir
Ailish Tynan (soprano)
Hebrides Ensemble
This exquisite collection of chamber works offers a bold and beautiful journey of imagination … Beautifully performed throughout, this is a disc resplendent with imagination and refreshingly... —
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Wilde offers a determined attack on conventional wisdom...an epic, gnarled and rugged genius shaking his fist at the universe with all the defiance of King Lear...Some may accuse him of assault... —
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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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Wholeheartedly committed, authoritative and at times dazzlingly virtuosic —
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In the Stillness: A Merton Christmas
The Girl Choristers of Merton College, Oxford, Simon Hogan, Catrin Meek, Benjamin Nicholas
Joined by the lower voices of Merton College Choir, the Girl Choristers exhibit a crystalline clarity of tone in the traditional Rocking Carol, and full-voiced attack in Joubert ’s Torc he s.... —
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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... —
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Robin Holloway: The Lovers' Well
Clare Lloyd-Griffiths (soprano), Kate Symonds-Joy (mezzo-soprano), James Robinson (tenor), Simon Wallfisch (baritone), William Vann (piano), Edward Rushton (piano)
Like Britten, Holloway is an eclectic harvester of texts with a connoisseur’s nose for those where music can ‘add value’. Mezzo Kate Symonds-Joy makes a compelling case for A Medley of Nursery... —
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Combining edgy post-industrial synth textures with ominous electronic percussive grooves, [Harrison’s title-track] Born in Dirt an’ Din presents the past through a futuristic post-industrial... —
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Praise Him With Trumpets (Ltd. Edition)
Bristol Choral Society, Charlotte Mobbs (soprano), Richard Moore (organ), Steven Kings (piano), Hilary Campbell
Rejoice in the Lamb is a good opening choice, showing off Bristol Choral Society’s growing strength and ambition, under Hilary Campbell, as a well-drilled ensemble of massed amateur voices.... —
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A shining service of contemporary works…The choir sing with tremendous fervour, clarity and power —
