Mathias - A babe is born
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Mathias: Choral Music - A May Magnificat; Learsongs; Riddles
Hugh Crook (organ), Shanna Hart (organ), Glen Dempsey (piano), Aïda Lahlou (piano), Marie-Noëlle Kendall (piano), David Ellis (bells, chimes), St. John's Voices, The Gentlemen of St. John's, Graham Walker
Everything here is sung with freshness, security and rhythmic energy, and only at the biggest climaxes does one miss an ideal fullness of sound…the soloists [in Riddles] are from the main Choir... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2020
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In Terra Pax
RecommendedA Christmas Anthology
Julia Doyle (soprano), Roderick Williams (baritone) & Mark Williams (organ and piano)
City of London Choir & Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Hilary Davan Wetton
The gem here is Finzi's In terra pax… From late in Finzi's life, it is suffused with English pastoral yearning, and baritone Roderick Williams sings beautifully in the outer sections. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 30th November 2009
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On Christmas Night
RecommendedCarols from St John’s College, Cambridge
John Challenger (organ)
The Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge, Andrew Nethsingha
The collective vocal heft of the ensemble's young choral scholars remains a potent weapon under Andrew Nethsinga's direction. He's a man of musical refinement, however, one ready and able to... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 5th December 2011
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Central to this valuable anthology of Mathias's church music is the tautly concentrated Missa brevis of 1973. It’s the outer movements that are most impressive, the Kyrie drawn tensely together... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2009, Editor's Choice
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Christmas from the Chapel Royal
The Choir of HM Chapel Royal, Hampton Court Palace, Rufus Frowde (organ), Carl Jackson
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The Stockholm Boys' Choir (Stockholms Gosskör)
Erik Wadman (organ), Erik Wadman (piano)
Stockholm Gosskor, Roland Nilsson
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Christmas at Loretto
David Eicher (pipe organ), David Eicher (piano)
South Bend Chamber Singers, Nancy Menk
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Nowell Sing We!
Advent and Christmas Music at New College
Choir of New College Oxford, Robert Quinney
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Notre-Dame, Cathédrale d’emotions
Maîtrise Notre-Dame de Paris
Raphaël Mas (percussion, drums), Yves Castagnet (organ), María Lueiro García (soprano), Joséphine Geoffray (mezzo-soprano), Maîtrise Notre-Dame de Paris, Solène Riot (flute), Bérengère Sardin (harp), Cécile Achille (soprano), Sylvain Dieudonné (vielle), Lucile Richardot (mezzo-soprano), Clara Morel-Coutouly...
