Ex Cathedra, Britten Sinfonia, Jeffrey Skidmore (condutor), Philippe Honoré (violin), Mark Padmore (tenor), Vayu Naidu (speaker)
The Traveller: Earth & Sky [ Signum / CD - released 7/Jul/2023 ] THE TRAVELLER for choir, children's choir, orchestra, tenor, violin and speaker. The Traveller was the third in a series of four major works with words by Vikram Seth and music by Alec Roth, com- missioned jointly over four years by the Salisbury,... |
MARIO CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO & OTHERS
Yanomami; music for choir and guitar Fabio Zanon (guitar) / Coro Cervantes / Carlos fernandez Aransay (conductor) [ Signum / CD - released 1/Jun/2009 ] Spain, Argentina and Brazil provide the background for some of the richest folklore in the world, the source of a wealth of music and tradition that has influenced countless composers. |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel/Mozart: Messiah (complete oratorio sung in English arranged Mozart rec 1988) Felicity Lott (sop) Felicity Palmer (contralto) Philip Langridge (ten) Robert Lloyd (bass) Huddersfield Choral Society / Royal Philharmonic / Charles [ Signum / 2 CD - released 15/Jul/2006 ] "If you want a traditional Messiah with added wind parts, you cannot go wrong with this. It has the added advantage of having Mackerras at the helm ... a guilty pleasure for solitary listening" (MusicWeb June 2006) |
WILL TODD
TODD: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Fflur Wyn, James Cleverton, Robert Burt, Victoria Simmonds / Opera Holland Park, Matthew Waldren [ Signum Classics / CD - released 20/Aug/2015 ] "The label "opera" gives the wrong impression. Although it is sung the whole way through, the score's idioms range from bluesy jazz and big band swing to West End musical." |
Fox/Jackson/Pitts/Saxton
The Clerks: Don't Talk - Just [ Signum / CD - released 21/Sep/2009 ] |
Fox/Philharmonia Orc/Mackerras
Mahler: Symphony 4 [ Signum / CD - released 8/Nov/2010 ] |
Frankfurt Po/Athinaos
Rheinberger:overture Op.18 [ Signum / CD ] |
THOMAS LUPO
Lupo: Fantasia Fretwork [ Signum Classics / CD - released 13/May/2022 ] FANTASIA is Fretwork's eleventh release with Signum Classics, and explores the court music of tudor England through the works of Thomas Lupo. A very large quantity of Lupo's private and intimate viol consort music has survived, and we can marvel at... |
JOHN JENKINS
Jenkins: Complete Four-Part Consort Music Fretwork [ Signum / 2 CD - released 2/Mar/2018 ] "Four of the members play 17 fantasias, each with a particularity of mood. The rich woody timbre of their viols, well captured on disc, is highlighted in two solemn pavans." Nicholas Butler/Marbecks |
ORLANDO GOUGH
Gough: The World Encompassed - Sir Francis Drake's Circumnavigation of the Globe 1577-80 Fretwork, with Simon Callow (narrator) [ Signum / 2 CD - released 1/Jul/2017 ] "Gough's music is extraordinarily imaginative and evocative as he imagines the memories of local music from around the world" Early Music Review |
HENRY PURCELL
Purcell: King Arthur Gabrieli Consort and Players, Paul McCreesh [ Signum / 2 CD - released 6/Dec/2019 ] "the chief delight of this recording is its consort aesthetic...the artists exert themselves to work as a collective...another jewel in McCreesh's crown." BBC Music Award WINNER 2020 - Recording of the Year |
GIBBONS / WALTON / MacMILLAN / ELGAR / HOWELLS / etc
A Song of Farewell - Music of mourning & consolation Gabrieli Consort and Players, Paul McCreesh [ Signum Records / CD - released 20/Oct/2011 ] "Adrian Peacock and balance engineer Neil Hutchinson have achieved a superb recording which captures the warm, intimate ambience of the venue and which achieves a fine clarity at the same time." (Recording of the Month MusicWeb April 2012) |
STANFORD / ELGAR / VAUGHAN WILLIAMS / DOVE / GRAINGER
Silence and Music Gabrieli Consort, Paul McCreesh [ Signum / CD - released 6/Oct/2017 ] This programme explores that vast twentieth-century secular English choral repertoire which goes under the generic title 'partsongs'. It is an extraordinarily rich repertoire to which almost all the famous composers contributed. Buried amongst vast... |
LEIGHTON / TALLIS / WARLOCK / HOWELLS etc
A Rose Magnificat Gabrieli Consort, Paul McCreesh (conductor) [ Signum / CD - released 18/May/2018 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARDS 2019 WINNER - Choral |
JOSEF HAYDN
Haydn: The Seasons (1801) Carolyn Sampson (sop) Jeremy Ovenden (ten) / Gabrieli Consort & Players, National Forum of Music Choir, Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra, Paul McCreesh (cond [ Signum / 2 CD Box Set - released 24/Mar/2017 ] "McCreesh and his massed Anglo-Polish forces have given us a Seasons that thrillingly catches both the work's bucolic exhilaration and its invocations of the sublime..for sheer sonic splendour it's in a class of its own" Gramophone Award Nomination |
ANDREA & GIOVANNI GABRIELI
A New Venetian Coronation, 1595 (LP) Gabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh [ Signum / 2 LP - released 2/Sep/2013 ] 180g vinyl, gatefold sleeve. The Gabrieli Consort and Players return to the programme that put them on the musical map when it was originally recorded and released in 1990: 'A Venetian Coronation 1595' is a musical re-creation evoking the grand... |
CROFT / ELGAR / PARRY / WOOD / LUTHER / HOWELLS
An English Coronation, 1902-1953: Edward VII, George V, George VI, Elizabeth II Gabrieli, Paul McCreesh [ Signum / 2 CD - released 9/May/2019 ] "One can imagine the virtuosity required by every contributor, at every turn, to make this a reality, let alone a dazzling triumph." Gramophone Awards 2020 Short List - Choral |
VIVALDI
Pellegrina's Delight: sonatas & chamber music for oboe Gail Hennessy (baroque oboe) Nicholas Parle (organ & harpsichord) [ Signum / CD - released 20/Mar/2012 ] Gail Hennessy (baroque oboe), Nicholas Parle (organ, harpsichord) |
Gail Hennessy & Nicholas Parle
Bach: Oboe And Harpsichord Mus [ Signum / CD - released 8/Apr/2002 ] |
ROBERT WHITE
Hymns, Psalms & Lamentations Gallicantus, directed by Gabriel Criuch [ Signum Classics / CD - released 1/Mar/2011 ] "The music is sublime... White's... mastery of large-scale form (most notably his monumental Miserere mei, Deus, which takes over 15 minutes) is breathtaking." Gramophone Magazine, March 2010 |