Kings College
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Special offer. Howells: Cello Concerto & An English Mass
Guy Johnston (cello), Stephen Cleobury (organ)
Britten Sinfonia, King's College Choir Cambridge, King's Voices, Christopher Seaman
Seaman conducts a by turns atmospheric and lively account of the Concerto, while a movement of An English Mass – the ‘Credo’ – is conducted to striking effect by Ben Parry. Cleobury conducts... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2019, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Assorted Program
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Special offer. English Hymn Anthems
Alison Balsom (trumpet)
The Choir Of King’s College, Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury
The King's performance [of the Parry] is predictably idiomatic, if a touch carefully preened and respectful...[Ireland's] is a more explicitly dramatic setting, and the singers seem to relish... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2015, Editor's Choice
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It’s music Trotter knows intimately, and it shows – even when refracted through the very English-sounding organ of King’s College, Cambridge, an instrument on which he cut his teeth as Organ... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, Critics' Choice 2021
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2021, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Finalist - Instrumental
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1615 Gabrieli in Venice
His Majesty's Sackbutts & Cornetts & The Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury
The choral sound is candid and transparent, the lower, adult voices sensitively balanced so as not to swamp the delicate timbre of the boy choristers. His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts offer... —
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A Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols: The Centenary Service
RecommendedChoir of King's College, Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury
This is a priceless record not only of the centenary of the most famous carol service in the world, but of the last to be directed by Sir Stephen Cleobury after 37 years at the helm of chapel... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th November 2019
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Fauré: Requiem
Tom Pickard (treble) & Gerald Finley (baritone)
Choir of King's College Cambridge & Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Stephen Cleobury
an engaging and admirable performance … what’s not to like about this release? Highly recommended. —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2014, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2020
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Gowers conveys the fundamental musicality of the work. There is a sense here that he feels the music, that he shares much of Messiaen’s vision and that he knows exactly what he wants the music... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2018, Editor's Choice
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100 Years of Nine Lessons & Carols
RecommendedKing’s College Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury,Sir David Willcocks, Sir Philip Ledger
The opening track from 1958 sets the basic tone: the singing’s precise, sunny and rather dainty. Yet extra gusto soon arrives, and the modern carols Cleobury commissioned certainly stop tradition... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 30th November 2018
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Bruckner: Mass in E Minor, Motets
Choir of King's College Cambridge, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Sir Stephen Cleobury
Mostly the pieces here are austere, and none approaches the grandeur of Bruckner’s biggest choral works. But they are unostentationally moving, and never more than on this, Cleobury’s last disc. —
