Hyperion
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Shaham and Erez deliver outstandingly committed performances, revelling in the music's virtuosity, fantasy and heightened intensity of expression. —
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Burgon: Choral music
David Bednall (organ) & Alan Thomas (trumpet)
The Choir of Wells Cathedral, Matthew Owens
This immensely appealing music is superbly sung by the Wells Cathedral Choir who prove to have excellent soloists. The vivid direction by Matthew Owens is greatly aided by David Bednall’s creative... —
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Boris Tchaikovsky: Chamber Symphony, Sinfonietta for Strings
Ludmila Golub (organ)
Musica Viva Chamber Orchestra, Alexander Rudin
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The Feast of the Ascension at Westminster Abbey
Robert Quinney (organ)
The Choir of Westminster Abbey, James O’Donnell
The boys might be singing Stanford's Caelos ascendit hodie, but they could just as easily be trilling ''Woohoo! It's Ascension Day!'' I love such musical joie de vivre, and not every choir is... —
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Joan Rodgers’s live recitals of Russian song, and her earlier Tchaikovsky album for Hyperion, set up huge expectations for this disc of four song cycles which have become classics of the repertoire.... —
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Brahms: The Complete Songs Volume 2 (Christine Schäfer)
Christine Schäfer (soprano) & Graham Johnson (piano)
[in the Ophelia songs] Schäfer is ideally cast: she sings them very much as a singing actress would, artful in her apparent artlessness, and meticulous of diction...[the Madchenlieder's] pungent... —
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Brabbins never lets [the First] off the tight rein it requires, so that it sounds all the more powerful as a result: the ferocious climaxes are built and sustained with control, while the Andante... —
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Christmas Vespers at Westminster Cathedral
This disc presents an adorned version of the Office of Vespers as it might be heard on the eve of Christmas in Westminster Cathedral, a building steeped in art, music and spirituality.
Matthew Martin (organ)
The Choir of Westminster Cathedral, Martin Baker (Master of Music)
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Taverner: Missa Mater Christi sanctissima & Western Wynde Mass
Westminster Abbey Choir, James O'Donnell
These are very sound, lucid performances in every sense…in comparison with the Taverner Consort, James O’Donnell’s reading of Western Wynde is rather softer-centred, but…a work as resourcefully... —
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Lane's light-fingered ascents and rapid scalic plunges are perfectly complemented by the Goldners' feather-light string playing. —
