Finzi - God is gone up, Op. 27 No. 2
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Trinity’s mixed young adults are effortless in the ease with which they respond to Layton’s exacting demands. The ground is hit running with a Magnificat whose iterations of the word ‘magnify’... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2019, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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It's when the pedal goes down (literally and metaphorically) that this disc really soars, startling the ear into ecstasy with the sudden release of Rachmaninov's Cherubic Hymn, the 'bright Seraphim'... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2019, Editor's Choice
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Ascendit Deus: Music for Ascensiontide & Pentecost
Peter Harrison, Matthew Jorysz (organ)
Choir of Clare College, Cambridge & The Dmitri Ensemble, Graham Ross
the famous setting of Ascendit Deus by Peter Philips spurts forward like a colt sprung freshly from a stable, the vocal decorations spinning vertiginously round like Monteverdi. It's a bracing... —
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Finzi, Bax & Ireland: Choral Music
Daniel Cook (organ), Sebastian Braw-Smith (treble), Julian Stocker (tenor), Julian Empett (bass), Jeremy Suppey (treble), Simon Ponsford (countertenor), Daniel Livermore (treble), Jonathan Brown (bass)
Westminster Abbey Choir, James O'Donnell
The choir’s diffuse tone – breathier in the upper voices than rivals at New College or even King’s Cambridge – is very effective —
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2017, Choral & Song Choice
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Special offer. Finzi - Sacred Choral Music
Choir of St John's College Cambridge, Christopher Robinson
The choir of St John's Cambridge have an evident affinity for music of this kind (which was written for just such choirs to sing) and present convincing accounts of a wide range of Finzi's sacred... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2002, Editor's Choice
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An English Choral Tradition
Choral works inspired by the Three Choirs Festival
Worcester Cathedral Choir, Donald Hunt
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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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Vaughan Williams, Finzi & Holst
RecommendedCecil Aronowitz (viola), Ian Partridge (tenor), John Shirley-Quirk (baritone), John Westbrook (speaker), John Eaton (treble), Nigel Perrin (alto), Robin Doveton (tenor), David van Asch (bass), Wilfred Brown (tenor), Philip Langridge (tenor), Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), Philip Fowke (piano),...
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Building a Library, June 2018, Also Recommended
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Evensong for St. Cecilia
Louise Marsh, Robert Gage, Felicity Lawson, John Holmes, George Nairn-Briggs, Wakefield Cathedral Choir, Jonathan Bielby
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