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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. |
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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." |
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Fox/Jackson/Pitts/Saxton
The Clerks: Don't Talk - Just [ Signum / CD - released 21/Sep/2009 ] |
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Fox/Philharmonia Orc/Mackerras
Mahler: Symphony 4 [ Signum / CD - released 8/Nov/2010 ] |
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EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: The Kingdom Francesca Chiejina (sop) Sarah Connolly (contralto) Benjamin Hulett (tenor) Ashley Riches (bass) / Crouch End Festival Chorus, London Mozart Players [ Signum / 2 CD - released 16/May/2025 ] Elgar's unjustly neglected 'greatest choral masterpiece' (Jeremy Dibble) is given an outstanding new recording by conductor David Temple, Crouch End Festival Chorus, London Mozart Players, and soloists Francesca Chiejina, Dame Sarah Connolly,... |
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Frankfurt Po/Athinaos
Rheinberger:overture Op.18 [ Signum / CD ] |
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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... |
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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 |
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MATTHEW LOCKE
Locke: The Flat Consort Fretwork [ Signum Records / CD - released 11/Feb/2022 ] Matthew Locke was born 400 years ago in 1622, and while he is often ranked as one of England's finest composers, he is still unaccountably neglected: his music may not be as immediately appealing as his immediate successor, Henry Purcell, nor as... |
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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 |
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GABRIELI / BENDINELLI / etc
A New Venetian Coronation, 1595 Gabrieli Consort and Players, Paul McCreesh [ Signum Records / CD - released 20/Aug/2012 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD WINNER 2013: Early Music |
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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 |
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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) |
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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... |
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LEIGHTON / TALLIS / WARLOCK / HOWELLS etc
A Rose Magnificat Gabrieli Consort, Paul McCreesh (conductor) [ Signum / CD - released 18/May/2018 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARDS 2019 WINNER - Choral |
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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 |
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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... |
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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 |
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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) |
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Gail Hennessy & Nicholas Parle
Bach: Oboe And Harpsichord Mus [ Signum / CD - released 8/Apr/2002 ] |