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BYRD / LAURIDSEN / TALLIS / ALLEGRI / SHEPPARD / GORECKI / etc
Naked Byrd (Incls Allegri - Miserere Mei) Armonico Consort [ Signum / CD - released 1/Apr/2010 ] "With the perfectly formed consort, it was an evening to savour" Emma Kirkby |
TRADITIONAL / MORLEY / STANFORD
Greensleeves - Folk music of the British Isles Armonico Consort, Christopher Monks [ Signum / CD - released 25/May/2016 ] 'Greensleeves' is a celebration of music spanning the length and breadth of the British Isles, featuring mesmerising new arrangements by Geoffrey Webber and Toby Young of some of the most beautiful folk music ever written. The recording includes... |
BARBER / BUCKLEY / BYRD / HILDEGARD / TALLIS / TAVENER / etc
Naked Byrd Two (Incls Lotti - Crucifixus) Armonico Consort, Christopher Monks (director) [ Signum / CD - released 10/Feb/2011 ] This recording is compiled from the Armonico Consort's Naked Byrd programmes, featuring music by composers who wore their hearts on their sleeves, and whose art saw their emotions laid bare, in an atmospheric concert where magical musical moments are... |
ALESSANDRO STRIGGIO / THOMAS TALLIS / etc
Supersize Polyphany Armonico Consort, Christopher Monks (musical director), Choir of Gonville & Caius College Cambridge [ Signum / CD - released 22/May/2019 ] Supersize Polyphony is a celebration of large-scale choral works from the 16th century, performed here by the Armonico Consort and the Choir of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, under their musical directors Christopher Monks and Geoffrey... |
WILL TODD
Todd: Lights, Stories, Noise, Dreams & Noodles Bach Choir, David Hill [ Signum / CD - released 11/Oct/2019 ] "The recording is absolutely first rate, as are the performances. As should be obvious, I have thoroughly enjoyed this disc." MusicWeb |
FRANCOIS COUPERIN / CARLO GESUALDO
Couperin: 3 Leçons de ténèbres / Gesualdo: Tenebrae Responsories for Maundy Thursday Tenebrae, Nigel Short [ Signum / CD - released 3/Apr/2020 ] Some of the most atmospheric music from the numerous Liturgical settings in Holy Week is that composed for the Office of Tenebrae. Victoria's are the most well-known, but equally beautiful and arguably more dramatic are the settings composed by... |
DOROTHY HOWELL
Howell: Orchestral Works BBC Concert Orchestra, Rebecca Miller [ Signum / CD - released 8/Mar/2024 ] Featuring 4 works receiving their world premiere recording, Signum Classics are proud to annouce the new album 'Dorothy Howell: Orchestral Works' conducted by Rebecca Miller with the BBC Concert Orchestra. Until now these works have rarely been... |
SERGE DIAGHILEV
Diaghilev: Diaghilev's Ballet Russes BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Thierry Fischer (conductor) [ Signum Classics / 3 CD - released 5/Sep/2011 ] Serge Diaghilev's choice of composers for his Ballet Russes productions (often acknowledged as one of the 20th century's most influential ballet companies) has led to the creation of some of the most engaging and exhilarating music in the classical... |
IGOR STRAVINSKY
Firebird: Works By Stravinsky BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Thierry Fischer (conductor) [ Signum / CD - released 27/Jul/2009 ] The music commissioned by Sergei Diaghilev for his Ballet Russes has generated some of the most inventive and popular orchestral works of the 20th Century. Led by Principal Conductor Thierry Fischer, these recordings capture the excitement and... |
STRAVINSKY / POULENC
Rite of Spring / Les Biches BBC National Orchestra of Wales / Thierry Fischer [ Signum Records / CD - released 10/Feb/2012 ] "Helped by state-of-the-art sound, Fischer's refinement speaks volumes in the Rite's quieter passages, where the string clusters and gurgling woodwind have a lucid beauty that contrasts finely with the weight of the rest...The real treat, though, is... |
GUTO PRYDERI PUW
Reservoirs: Orchestral Works by Guto Pryderi Puw BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Jac van Steen [ Signum / CD - released 16/Aug/2014 ] " Presented with great clarity by the orchestra under Jac van Steen, they show Puw revelling in the opportunity to write challengingly for such a proficient band, though at times that enthusiasm does get the better of him...[Reservoirs] is the most i |
STRAVINSKY
Petrushka (with Liadov - Baba-Yaga, etc) BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Thierry Fischer [ Signum Records / CD - released 20/Mar/2012 ] "Both composers benefit from Fischer's trademark refinement. His Petrushka, notably beautiful, is graciously touching rather than violent or eruptive, and the clean-textured, superbly detailed playing from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales reminds... |
JOHN METCALF
In Time Of Daffodils Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone) / BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Grant Llewellyn [ Signum / CD - released 3/Sep/2007 ] "The music, as in the other works of Metcalf, is often warmly melodic and lyrical as well as strongly expressive" (MusicWeb) |
DAVID MATTHEWS
Matthews: A Vision of the Sea BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Jac van Steen [ Signum / CD - released 22/Jan/2021 ] "The world of nature is never far away in Matthews's music, and two other recent orchestral works bear witness to his delight in contexts where haunting fragments of birdsong can emerge." Gramophone Editor's Choice March 2021 |
BERNARD HUGHES
I Am The Song BBC Singers, Bernard Hughes [ Signum / CD - released 15/Apr/2016 ] Following in Signum's series of composer-led releases with the BBC Singers, this new disc represents the culmination of a collaboration between British composer Bernard Hughes and the choir that began in 2002. Combining modern poetry by E. E.... |
JUDITH WEIR
Storm BBC Singers, Choristers of Temple Church & Endymion, David Hill [ Signum Classics / CD - released 20/May/2015 ] "We start in the cathedral, with the densely spiralling alleluias of Weir's mesmerisingly beautiful millennium anthem, All the Ends of the Earth. The simpler textures of her Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis occasionally find the choir sounding harsh up h |
JUDITH BINGHAM
Bingham: Remoter Worlds BBC Singers, David Hill (conductor) [ Signum / CD - released 24/Nov/2008 ] The BBC Singers, led by David Hill, are the UK's only full-time professional chamber choir, and their repertoire and virtuosic versatility are almost boundless. The BBC Singers regularly work with the BBC's own orchestras as well as a number of... |
RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT
My Dancing Day: Choral Works BBC Singers / Paul Brough [ Signum / CD - released 20/Aug/2012 ] "Each shows the same craftsmanship and harmonic instincts; there's not a note out of place or a phrase that seems second-hand." The Guardian, 23rd August 2012 **** |
GABRIEL JACKSON
Airplane Cantata BBC Singers / Rex Lawson [ Signum Classics / CD - released 28/Jul/2014 ] Gabriel Jackson was Associate Composer with the BBC Singers from 2010 to 2013 and this disc collects the very best of this unique collaboration between composer and professional choral ensemble. The central work 'Airplane Cantata'... |
SIR MICHAEL TIPPETT
Choral Images The BBC Singers / Stephen Cleobury (with Iain Farrington, organ) [ Signum / CD - released 16/Apr/2007 ] "The BBC Singers under Stephen Cleobury give strong, passionate performances...this is strong music and it responds to strong, technically confident performances. But here, the BBC Singers go far beyond mere technical competency, creating a series of... |
