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PALESTRINA
Missa Hodie Christus natus est & & other music for Christmas Westminster Cathedral Choir, Martin Baker [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 20/Jan/2015 ] "This is a thrilling recording of Palestrina's music for the Christmas season" (The Guardian) |
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PALESTRINA
Third Book of Lamentations Westminster Cathedral Choir / Martin Baker [ Hyperion / CD - released 19/Apr/2007 ] Palestrina composed four sets of Lamentations, the third of which is recorded here. Throughout the centuries composers of sacred music have aspired to do justice to this most dramatic of texts and Palestrina’s settings rank amongst the finest. The... |
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WILLIAM BYRD
The Three Masses Westminster Cathedral Choir, Martin Baker [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/Sep/2014 ] BBC Music Magazine Award Nomination 2015 - Choral |
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BYRD / CROCE / GUERRERO / MALCOLM / MAWBY / PALESTRINA / TALLIS / PARSONS, R / DEVAN, D
Miserere Westminster Cathedral Choir, Martin Baker / Peter Stevens (organ) / William Gaunt (bass) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Feb/2013 ] This release from the admired Westminster Cathedral Choir demonstrates the splendours of the liturgy in the at-once solemn and joyful period of Lent. |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Christmas Vespers at Westminster Cathedral Westminster Cathedral Choir / Martin Baker / with Matthew Martin (organ) [ Hyperion / CD - released 26/Oct/2006 ] "Here Westminster Cathedral Choir and Martin Baker give us a rich evocation of the complete service of Vespers at the Cathedral as it is currently sung. If you close your eyes you can almost smell the incense." (MusicWeb Nov 2006) |
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VICTORIA
Ave Regina caelorum Westminster Cathedral Choir Robert Quinney (organ & continuo) Martin Baker (master of music) [ Hyperion / CD - released 24/Nov/2004 ] The Choir of Westminster Cathedral continues its survey of the music of Tomás Luis de Victoria with this new recording of the Missa Ave Regina caelorum, an opulent double-choir setting based on Victoria's two eponymous motets. |
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PETER MAXWELL DAVIES
Sacred Choral Music Westminster Cathedral Choir / Robert Quinney (with Robert Houssart), organ Martin Baker, director [ Hyperion / CD - released 7/Jun/2004 ] "A challenging Mass with magical effects crowns an outstanding disc from this choir" Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine July 2004 |
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Westminster Cathedral Choir/O'
Des Prez: Missa Pange Lingua/V [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 25/Jul/2011 ] |
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FILIPE DE MAGALHAES / DUARTE LOBO
Masterpieces of Portuguese Polyphony The William Byrd Choir / Gavin Turner (director) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 12/Jul/2005 ] GRAMOPHONE CRITICS' CHOICE "So far as I am aware, there is no other current recording of Magalhães' Mass Dilectus meus. I cannot imagine a better performance than Turner's." (MusicWeb July 2007) |
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Winchester Cathedral Choir
Weelkes;Cathedral Music [ Hyperion / CD ] |
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WILLIAM BYRD
Mass for five voices Winchester Cathedral Choir, David Hill [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 1/Jul/2012 ] "A generously full CD, spaciously recorded in Winchester Cathedral. The main feature is the rapt, joyous singing of the choir in this magnificent music. Very fine" (Hi Fi News) |
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CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD
Stanford: Sacred & Choral Music [3 CD set] Winchester Cathedral Choir, David Hill [ Hyperion / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Dec/2012 ] "Hill and the Winchester Choir are superb. The choral tone is luscious, the discipline outstanding, the recording captures the sumptuous acoustics of the cathedral without blurring the musical details." American Record Guide |
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CHRISTOPHER TYE
Cathedral Music (Incls Mass 'Euge Bone') Winchester Cathedral Choir / David Hill [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 14/Jun/2005 ] 'As soon as the disc begins to play the singing creates a wonderful ambience to fit the music of this undervalued composer' (Cathedral Music) |
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THOMAS TALLIS
Missa Salve intemerata & Antiphons Winchester Cathedral Choir, Philip Scriven (organ), David Hill (director) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 1/Mar/2013 ] 'Vivid acoustics and mellifluous phrasing in the plainsong pieces evoke a calming contemplative atmosphere. The exemplary tonal finesse and beautifully judged dynamic response in the votive antiphon 'Ave rosa sine spinis' is striking' (BBC Music... |
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JOHN BLOW
Anthems Winchester Cathedral Choir & The Parley Of Instruments, David Hill [ Hyperion Dyad / 2 CD - released 24/Oct/2010 ] "Though overshadowed by his pupil Purcell, John Blow's church music is highly distinguished. Here are 14 of his richly scored anthems in skilful and idiomatic performances." BBC Music Magazine, July 2006 **** |
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JOY TO THE WORLD
Joy to the World Worcester Cathedral Choir (with Adrian Partington, organ) / Donald Hunt (director) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 1/Nov/2003 ] 'Altogether a very enjoyable disc' (Organists' Review) |
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Wordsworth/Royal Ballet Sinfon
Mccabe: Edward Ii [ Hyperion / 2 CD ] |
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HEINRICH SCHUTZ
Schütz: The Christmas story & other works Yale Schola Cantorum / David Hill [ Hyperion / CD - released 29/Nov/2019 ] Schütz's 'Christmas story' is an absolute delight from beginning to end, its charming tableaux of angels, shepherds and wise men completely belying the composer's old age and constrained circumstances. Here it's the jubilant climax to a programme of... |
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem Yale Schola Cantorum, David Hill (conductor) [ Hyperion / CD - released 31/Aug/2018 ] A performance which reveals a quite different dimension to this most monumental of all Brahms's works. Iain Farrington's arrangement - the orchestral forces distilled down to an instrumental octet inspired by the composer's own piano reduction-is a... |
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GIOVANNI PIERLUIGI da PALESTRINA
Palestrina: Missa Confitebor tibi Domine & other works Yale Schola Cantorum, Liuwe Tamminga (organ) [ Hyperion / CD - released 16/Feb/2018 ] The music on this recording represents the repertory performed at St Peter's, or in other Roman churches, in the late 1570s or 1580s, during the celebration of Mass and Vespers on a patronal feast day. On such occasions extra singers (if necessary)... |