Stanford - Coelos Ascendit Hodie, Op. 38 No. 2
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Choral » Anthems & Motets
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Stocked with female voices rather than boy trebles, the Trinity choir attack this repertoire with a brisk attack and mature aplomb under Stephen Layton’s sensitive direction. There is so much... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2017, Editor's Choice
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Stanford - Anthems and Services
Christopher Whitton (organ)
Choir of St. John’s College Cambridge, Christopher Robinson
The mean old saying, 'Those who can, do, and those who can't, teach', would have withered in the presence of Stanford; and no doubt one of the reasons why he was such a great teacher is that... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2003, Editor's Choice
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Stanford: Sacred Choral Music Volumes 1-3
Stephen Farr (organ), Christopher Monks (organ), David Hill, Chrisopher Monks (organ)
Winchester Cathedral Choir
Hill and the Winchester Choir are superb. The choral tone is luscious, the discipline outstanding, the recording captures the sumptuous acoustics of the cathedral without blurring the musical... —
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Parry: Songs of Farewell & works by Stanford, Gray & Wood
George Purves (treble), Westminster Abbey Choir, James O’Donnell
The ensemble rides that acoustic knowingly, using its echo and harbouring its resonance, but the anatomy of its sound is as distinctive as it is lopsided: trebles capable of pinpoint accuracy,... —
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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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Choirs of Cambridge: Queen's College Choir 'Evening Hymn'
English Choral Music
Choir of Queens' College Cambridge & Cambridge University Brass Group, John Gibbons & Philip Walsh
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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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In Tune with Heaven
Choral music by Parry, Stanford and Harris
Thomas Leech (organ)
The Girls and Men of Norwich Cathedral Choir, Julian Thomas
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Downloads
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Alpha Collection Vol. 14: Choral Music from Exeter Cathedral
Paul Morgan (organ)
Exeter Cathedral Choir, Lucian Nethsingha
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