TARIK O'REGAN / DAVID FENNESSY
O'Regan: A Letter of Rights / Fennessy: Triptych (Letters) Chamber Choir Ireland, Irish Chamber Orchestra, Paul Hillier [ Naxos / CD - released 13/Nov/2020 ] Letters brings important writings to humanity in a musical setting. |
GIACOMO MEYERBEER
Meyerbeer: Romilda e Constanza (Complete Opera) Chiara Brunello, César Cortés, Luiza Fatyol, Emmanuel Franco / Górecki Chamber Choir, Passionart Orchestra Krakow, Luciano Acocella [ Naxos / 3 CD Box Set - released 27/Nov/2020 ] Meyerbeer had already won renown in Italy before conquering Paris with a sequence of much-acclaimed grand operas. |
S.S. WESLEY
Anthems Choir of Clare College, Cambridge [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Apr/2007 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD FINALIST 2007 - Choral - "The fine Clare College choir sings them with appropriate fervour" (Sunday Times) |
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Sacred Choral Music (Incl Via Crucis, Ave Maria, etc) Choir of Radio Svizzera, Lugano. Diego Fasolis, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 16/Sep/2002 ] "an outstanding recording" - Gramophone |
WILLIAM HARRIS
Choral Music Choir of St George's Chapel Windsor Castle / Roger Judd (organ) / Timothy Byram-Wigfield [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Jan/2007 ] In addition to music previously unrecorded, this disc includes Harris' two best known works: Faire is the heav'n, and Bring us O Lord God, both pinnacles of twentiethcentury English Church Music |
EDMUND RUBBRA
Nine Tenebrae Motets / Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis / etc Choir of St John's College, Cambridge / Christopher Robinson (Conductor) [ Naxos / CD - released 9/Sep/2001 ] 2001 GRAMOPHONE FINALIST - Choral |
PSALMS FOR THE SOUL
Psalms For The Soul Choir of St John's, Elora / Noel Edison [ Naxos / CD - released 17/Nov/2007 ] "The well-balanced, luminous sound gives all the immediacy and presence the music requires." - Classics Today (10/10) |
HANDEL
Music for the Chapel Royal Choir of the Chapel Royal / Andrew Grant [ Naxos / CD - released 15/May/2007 ] This recording restores some of Handel’s finest but least-known music to the choir for which he wrote it and to the building where he performed it, probably for the first time since his own performances there. |
VASILY KALAFATI
Kalafati: Symphony in A Minor / Légende / Polonaise Choir of the Music Department of the University of Athens, Athens Philharmonia, Byron Fidetzis [ Naxos / CD - released 28/Aug/2020 ] Greek by parentage, Vasily Kalafati settled permanently in St Petersburg where he counted Rimsky-Korsakov among his teachers, and later included Igor Stravinsky among a distinguished roll-call of his own students. |
HENRY PURCELL
Purcell: Ode for St Cecilia's Day, Te Deum & other choral works Jeni Bern (soprano), Susan Bisatt (soprano), Thomas Guthrie (bass), Ian Honeyman (tenor) / Orchestra of the Golden Age, Choir of the Golden Age, Rober [ Naxos / CD - released 5/May/1995 ] "The vocal soloists are especially fine ... highly respectable performances." American Record Guide |
Choir St John's College Cambri
Various: English Choral Music [ Naxos / 10 CD - released 21/Nov/2011 ] |
Choir Tewkesbury Abbey/Sackett
Christmas Carols Tewkesbury [ Naxos / CD ] |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Celebrate Beethoven - Choral Music Chorus Cathedralis Aboensis; City of London Choir; Key Ensemble, The; Nashville Symphony Chorus; Nicolaus Esterházy Chorus; Westminster Boys' Choir [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Aug/2020 ] From the vast Naxos catalogue comes the perfect introduction to the choral music of Ludwig van Beethoven. |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: The Bells Op 35 / The Rock Op 7 Ivan Choupenitch (tenor) / Helen Field (soprano) / Oleg Melnikov (bass) / RTE Philharmonic Choir. Choupenitch, Alexander Anissimov [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Apr/2002 ] "Budget or no, these are Bells you ought to hear." |
LEOS JANACEK
Janacek: Glagolitic Mass / Sinfonietta Christiane Libor (soprano) Ewa Marciniec (alto) Timothy Bentch (tenor) / Warsaw Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra / Antoni Wit [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Jan/2012 ] "The polished choral singing is a joy, with excellent pitching throughout, especially in the cruelly exposed unaccompanied entries. The orchestra's contribution is equally distinguished." (Gramophone) |
ANTONIN DVORAK
Dvorak: Requiem, Op. 89 Christiane Libor (soprano) Ewa Wolak (alto) Daniel Kirch (tenor) & Janusz Monarcha (bass) / Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir, Antoni Wit [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 10/Nov/2014 ] "The string playing is marvellous and the woodwind, so important in this work, are refined and ethereal. The choir also holds its own against the Czechs - you only need to listen to the Introitus to be convinced" MusicWeb |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem [German Requiem], Op. 45 Christiane Libor (soprano) & Thomas E. Bauer (baritone) / Warsaw Philharmonic Choir & Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Antoni Wit [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Apr/2014 ] "This is a choir-led performance of the German Requiem...the Warsaw Philharmonic Choir...is always here the centre of gravity, creating the music's existential continuum and arising to sombre unexpected splendour...Wit seems to hold back emotionally |
JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem, [German Requiem] Op. 45 BLU-RAY AUDIO ONLY Christiane Libor (soprano) & Thomas E. Bauer (baritone) / Warsaw Philharmonic Choir & Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Antoni Wit [ Naxos Blu-Ray Audio / Blu-ray Disc - released 25/Apr/2015 ] The longest work in Brahms's entire oeuvre, A German Requiem was almost certainly triggered by the death of his mother, although it also seems likely that the tragic loss of his friend Robert Schumann, some years earlier, added to its depth and... |
WILLIAM BOLCOM
Bolcom: Songs of Innocence and of Experience Christine Brewer (soprano) / Measha Brueggergosman (soprano) / Ilana Davidson (soprano) / Michigan University Choir / Leonard Slatkin (cond) [ Naxos American Classics / 3 CD - released 1/Feb/2005 ] New York Times: The Best Classical CDs of 2004 "William Bolcom worked on his settings of the 46 poems of William Blake's "Songs of Innocence and of Experience" for 25 years. Leonard Slatkin conducts a gripping live performance of this ambitious... |