Guerrero, Francisco - Ave Virgo sanctissima
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The Schola may be the Brompton Oratory’s parish choir but they are also a school ensemble whose back lines are made up of boys aged 18 and under, with the support of just six adult lay clerks.... —
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Miserere
A sequence of music for Lent, St Joseph, and the Annunciation
Peter Stevens (organ), William Gaunt (bass) & Peter Stevens (organ)
Westminster Cathedral Choir, Martin Baker
This is a disc for those who love the acoustic, the atmosphere and the musical traditions of the Roman Catholic Cathedral in London...This is a large choir, very good at big effects. The pacing... —
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Santiago a cappella
RecommendedRecording location: St Alban the Martyr, Holborn, London
Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner
A wonderful collection brilliantly sung. Only Mariam Matrem is a true pilgrim piece, but others (Lobo's Versa est) are a revelation. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 30th August 2010
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Guerrero: Magnificat, Lamentations & Canciones
El León de Oro, Peter Phillips, Marco Antonio García de Paz
The 38-strong Spanish choir produces a sound that is rich yet at the same time remarkably intimate and crystalline. The group’s honorary director is Peter Phillips and something of the silvery... —
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O Virgo Benedicta
Music of Marian Devotion from Spain’s Century of Gold
The Marian Consort: Gwendolen Martin, Emma Walshe (sopranos), Nicholas Scott (tenor), Steffan Jones (baritone), Christopher Borrett (bass) & Rory McCleery (countertenor/director)
The Oxford-based mixed choir makes a bold, bright sound with strong individual voices. —
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Sanctissima
RecommendedVespers and Benediction For the Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary
ORA Singers, Suzi Digby
Olivier Tarney’s awestruck depiction of the Assumption in In Homeward Flight – the only English-language setting on the programme – was the work which made the strongest initial impact on me,... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 18th August 2023
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Music for Mary Volume 2
Richard Lea (organ)
The Choir of Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, Timothy Noon
Most impressive is Timothy Noon's own setting of Salve regina. Partly because this music is so well tailored both for this choir and for the sound it makes in the cathedral, the choir seems... —
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Nowell Sing We!
Advent and Christmas Music at New College
Choir of New College Oxford, Robert Quinney
