TRADITIONAL
Once As I Remember Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner [ Australian SBS Decca Eloquence / CD - released 10/Mar/2013 ] 'Once As I Remember' is John Eliot Gardiner's recreation of the story of Christmas based on the Springhead Christmas Play. A nativity play made up of music, speech, dance and mime took place almost every Christmas in the Millroom at Springhead, home... |
GABRIELI / BASSANO / MONTEVERDI
Christmas In Venice Monteverdi Choir / Philip Jones Brass Ensemble / John Eliot Gardiner [ Decca SBS Australian Eloquence / CD - released 28/Aug/2014 ] Jean-Baptiste Duval of the Venetian Republic's French Embassy records that on Christmas Eve 1607, Midnight Mass in St. Mark's was celebrated by the light of more than one thousand candles, sixty huge torches and silver lamps. He counted no less than... |
PERCY GRAINGER
Salute To Percy Grainger (Incls 'Shepherd's Hey' & 'The Warriors') Peter Pears (tenor) Anna Reynolds (mezzo-soprano) John Shirley Quirk (baritone) / Ambrosian Singers, Wandsworth Boys' Choir, Benjamin Britten [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 1/Oct/2010 ] "This is an altogether delightful anthology, beautifully played and recorded by these distinguished artists … the recording is an extremely good one" Penguin Guide *** |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: German Requiem (Ein deutsches Requiem) Wolfgang Brendel (baritone), Lucia Popp (soprano) / Prague Philh. Choir. Sinopoli [ Deutsche Grammophon Eloquence / CD - released 30/May/2001 ] A warm, sumptuous and grand reading of Brahms' intensely moving German Requiem with the heavenly soprano of Popp and the imposing baritone of Brendel under the direction of Sinopoli |