Kings College
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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. —
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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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Members of the King’s College Choir, Cambridge offer a doo-wopping, close-harmony anthology of seasonal favourites – a warmly enjoyable complement to that mulled wine moment —
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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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Mozart: Requiem Realisations
Elin Manahan Thomas (soprano), Christine Rice (mezzo), James Gilchrist (tenor), Christopher Purves (bass)
The Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, Academy of Ancient Music, Stephen Cleobury
The standard of the performance is high, so long as you want a liturgical version, one that might be used at a service...This is an educative set, and it is interesting to listen to the alternative... —
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Carols From King's (2020 Collection)
Live
Donal McCann, Philip Curtis (soloist), Daniel Hyde, Aiken Anderson-Jané (soloist), Protik Moulik (soloist), Choir of King's College Cambridge
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