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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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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2020
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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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All the Stars Looked Down: A John Rutter Celebration
Daniel Hyde, Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Britten Sinfonia
Rutter favourites such as Dormi, Jesu, Nativity Carol and All Bells in Paradise receive radiant performances under Daniel Hyde's highly sympathetic direction, with the Britten Sinfonia adding... —
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Christopher Purves sings magnificently, spinning an enviable thread of legato through the narrative of each song. A consummate actor, too, with commanding diction, he invariably finds a distinctive... —
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2023, Choral & Song Choice
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Nine Lessons & Carols: King's College Cambridge
RecommendedChoir of King's College Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury
Perhaps the lower voices aren't quite as smoothly blended here as they usually are at King's, but generally the level of achievement reached in these live performances is enviable. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 3rd December 2012
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On the whole, the organ is a pretty flexible beast, best in the Mendelssohn and Franck where heavy diapasons and rounded reeds make all the difference, but less spectacular in Bach, its mixtures,... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Formidable tunes from across the liturgical year in engaging arrangements by choirmaster Stephen Cleobury. The choir’s diction and tuning are excellent. —
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Bach, J S: St John Passion, BWV245
James Gilchrist (Evangelist), Neal Davies (Christus), Sophie Bevan (soprano/Ancilla), Iestyn Davies (alto), Ed Lyon (tenor arias), Toby Ward (Servus), Benedict Kearns (Petrus), Roderick Williams (bass arias/Pilatus)
Academy of Ancient Music & King's College Choir Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury
Cleobury has assembled an unassailable team of soloists, whose powerful insights gild Neal Davies’s Jesus, a characterisation of immense presence and authority. —
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In the Bleak Midwinter: Christmas Carols From King's
Matthew Martin (organ), Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Daniel Hyde
The voices are warmly blended by Daniel Hyde, director of music since 2019, and show the choir confidently developing a fresh identity in the post-Stephen Cleobury era. —
