Charlotte Church
Enchantment [ Columbia / CD - released 1/Jan/2001 ] |
Andrea Bocelli & Charlotte Church
Christmas Glory From Westminster [ BBC Heritage DVD / DVD ] Home Vision Cinema presents Christmas Glory From Westminster. This program features poetry and music from celebrities from the worlds of film and opera. Readings include Greta Scacchi reciting William Blake's The Lamb and Joan Plowright reading... |
ANONYMOUS / TRADITIONAL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Russian Orthodox Chant: Glorification of the Cross Russian Orthodox Church,Geneva [ Cascavelle / CD - released 2/Oct/1999 ] 1999 recording. Translations included |
Charlotte Church
Prelude: the Very Best Of [ Sony Classical / CD ] |
Charlotte Church
Voice Of An Angel [ Sony Classical / CD - released 1/Jan/1998 ] |
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS / BRAHMS / McIVOR / MOZART / BRITTEN / LALLOUTTE / etc
How Lovely Are Thy Dwellings The Choir of the Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick, Mark Shepherd [ Guild / CD - released 2/Feb/1998 ] A choir founded in 1123 at the England parish church St. Mary in the town of Warwick. |
The Church
Priest=Aura (LP) [ Music On Vinyl / 2 LP - released 25/Jun/2021 ] Priest=Aura is the eighth studio album by Australian alternative rock band The Church. The album was named after front man Steve Kilbey's misreading of a Spanish fan's English vocabulary notes (since 'priest' is translated as 'cura' in Spanish). It... |
The Church
Starfish [ Music on CD / CD - released 25/Oct/1990 ] Their lucky seventh album, 'Starfish' took The Church to a new level of creativity with beautifully arranged songs - including the hauntingly elegant "Under The Milky Way". |
The Church
Under The Milky Way: The Best of The Church [ Buddha Records / CD - released 20/Sep/1999 ] Available as an import from America, this excellent digitally re-mastered compilation brings together all of the finest songs by the great Australian band, The Church. |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL, arr. Paul Mills
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Handel's Young Messiah Matthew Ward, Cynthia Clawson, First Baptist Church, Norkolk, Virginia, Young Messiah Orchestra, with Barry McGuire (narrator) [ WLIW / CD - released 11/Nov/2006 ] THE YOUNG MESSIAH gives Handel's choral masterpiece an exciting modern interpretation - predominantly gospel in tone, and also integrating soul. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Great European Organs No. 96 The Matz and Luge Organ of St Bernard's Church, Baden-Baden [ Priory / CD - released 20/Aug/2015 ] This is another unknown organ, from St.Bernard's Church in the very musical city of Baden-Baden. Marco Lo Muscio's third CD for Priory offers another extrovert programme which features such a wide selection of composers from Bach to two substantial... |
J. S. BACH
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach in Los Angeles (Incls Toccata & Fugue in D minor) Michael Murray at the organ of the First Congregational Church [ Telarc Classics / CD - released 1/Dec/2005 ] "[Michael Murray's] brilliant playing is captured in lifelike sound by the Telarc engineers, making this a blockbuster demonstration disc." - Palladium-Times |
ALLEGRI / VICTORIA / GUERRERO / POULENC / SCHUTZ / etc
Miserere (For Lent, Holy Week & Easter) Saint Cecilia Choir of St John Cantius Church, Daniel V Robinson [ Sony Classical / CD - released 26/May/2017 ] From the heart of Chicago, St. John Cantius presents the St. Cecilia Choir through the emotional depth of Holy Week from Chicago's St. John Cantius Church. The triumphal Ingrediente Domino of "Palm Sunday" marks Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem... |
The Church
Starfish (LP) [ Music On Vinyl / LP - released 23/Jan/2014 ] Starfish the acclaimed fifth album from The Church, originally released in 1988 is reissued on limited edition white vinyl. Starfish went on to become their most commercially successful and perhaps critically adored of their many... |
BUXTEHUDE / DUBOIS / CALLAHAN / MILHAUD / WIDOR / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: The Mother Church Organ Thomas Richner (The Mother Church Organ, Boston, MA) [ The Christian Science Publishing / CD - released 28/May/1989 ] Recorded at the First Church of Christ, Scientist, Boston, MA, USA |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Handel: Urecht Te Deum & Jubilate / Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne / etc Emma Kirkby, Judith Nelson, James Bowman, Paul Elliot, Martyn Hill / Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, Christopher Hogwood [ Decca / 2 CD ] Recording locations: All Saints Church, Tooting, London, December 1977 (Anthem, Ode) St Jude's Church, Hampstead, London, July 1979 (Te Deum & Jubilate, Alceste) |
The Church
Eros Zeta & The Perfumed Guitars [ Easy Action / CD - released 5/Apr/2024 ] Following on the theme from last year's critically acclaimed The Hypnogogue, 15 new songs take the story further. |
Marching Church
Telling It Like It Is (CD) [ Sacred Bones / CD - released 31/Oct/2016 ] Marching Church, the onetime solo project and now bona fide big band formed by singer Elias Bender Rønnenfelt, has followed its leader's muse everywhere from their early days of 4-track lo-fi tapes, to Sam Cooke-tinged soul on This World is Not... |
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 |
MARCEL DUPRE
Complete Organ Works Vol 11 (Incls Les Nymphéas op. 54) Ben van Oosten (organ) at the Casavant Organ, Brick Church, New York City [ MDG / CD - released 1/Apr/2010 ] Never before have Les Nympheas Op.54 been heard outside Dupré's native Meudon. Ben van Oosten presents this extraordinary composition on the Casavent organ in New York's Brick Church. This instrument was inaugurated by van Oosten in 2005 and is... |
Centenary Methodist Church Choir
Enchanting Fiji (LP) [ Salem / Viking Seven Seas LP / LP - released 22/Nov/2016 ] |
Various Composers
Charlotte Church Charlotte Church [ Sony Classics / CD - released 21/Nov/1999 ] Includes "Just Wave Hello" - the Ford Millennium Anthem |
JOHANN SPETH
Speth: Ars Magna Consoni et Dissoni - Music for Organ Chiara Minali (Organ of the Parish Church of Santa Maria Assunta - Cavalese, Italy)/ Letizia Butterin (Gregorian Chant) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 9/May/2022 ] Johann Speth (1664- after ca. 1719) was born in Speinshart, about 150 km from Nuremberg, to the teacher Heinrich Speth and his wife Margareta. Almost nothing is known of his life before his appointment as organist of Augsburg Cathedral. |
BROWNE / CORNYSH / DAVY / LAMBE / WYLKYNSON
Choirs of Angels: Music from the Eton Choirbook, Vol. 2 Choir Of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, Stephen Darlington [ Avie / CD - released 18/Mar/2013 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD FINALIST 2013: Early Music |
Edmund Turges, Hugo Kellyk, John Browne, John Fawkyner, John Hampton, Richard Davy, Robert Fayrfax, Robert Hacomplaynt, Robert Wylkynson, Walter Lambe
The Door to Paradise Choir Of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, Stephen Darlington [ AVIE / 5 CD - released 7/Sep/2018 ] The Door to Paradise celebrates Stephen Darlington's 30+-year legacy as Director of the distinguished Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford. This unprecedented contribution to the choral discography is the most comprehensive collection to date... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Treasures of Christ Church Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford / Stephen Darlington [ Avie Records / CD - released 11/Aug/2011 ] All of the composers on Treasures had an association with Christ Church (whose hallowed halls were famously seen in the Harry Potter films), stretching back to the tenure of John Taverner; through Tallis, Handel, Purcell, and Byrd; to present-day... |
PALESTRINA
Masses and Motets The Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, Stephen Darlington, director [ Nimbus / CD - released 1/Sep/2001 ] Beautiful choral music of Palestrina |
BROWNE / TURGES / FAWKYNER / HAMPTON / WYLKYNSON
Courts of Heaven: Music from the Eton Choirbook Vol. 3 The Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, Stephen Darlington [ Avie / CD - released 18/Apr/2015 ] "The superb Christ Church Cathedral choir here offer five more works from an unparalleled source of English sacred polyphony from the late 15th and early 16th centuries...sung with unfailing elegance." (Gramophone Award Nomination 2015 - Early Music) |
ETON CHOIRBOOK
More Divine Than Human The Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Stephen Darlington [ Avie / CD - released 20/Sep/2010 ] "The Eton Choirbook ranks among the most difficult music composed to be sung by children… The trebles here excel, both as soloists and, just as remarkably, when several sing together on the same line." Gramophone Awards 2010 Finalist - Early Music |
VARIOUS
Silent Night at Saint Thomas The Choir of Saint Thomas Church, Fifth Ave, New York [ CD - released 30/Sep/2007 ] |
HOIBY / SOWERBY / NESWICK / ROREM / FRIEDELL / DIRKSEN
Great Cathedral Anthems Vol.11 The Choir of St. Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue, New York, USA / Judith Hancock [ Priory / CD - released 21/Aug/2006 ] The Choir of St. Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue |
CHESNOKOV
Chesnokov: Liturgy of St.John Chrysostom Op.42 Choir of the Church of the Nativity of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary, Arkadi Leontiev (tenor) / Nikolai Georgievsky (cond) [ Alto / CD ] "Chesnokov represents a late flowering of Russian Orthodox traditions in the years before the Revolution … composers sought to renew the style by returning it to its roots in Medieval Slavic chant. Chesnokov excelled in this style, and in his many... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Treasury of English Church Music: 1100-1965 Ambrosian Singers, Westminster Abbey Choir, Chichester Cathedral Choir, Guildford Cathedral Choir, St Pauls Cathedral Choir, Temple Church Choi [ Erato / Warner Classics / 5 CD Box Set - released 20/Feb/2010 ] Here for the first time on CD are the celebrated five LPs of the HMV Treasury of English Church Music. Prefaced by the introductory speech Herbert Howells gave at the launch, and boasting more than 30 bonus tracks, this set offers a uniquely... |
TAVENER / GORECKI / HOWELLS / RUTTER / etc
Fear and Rejoice, O People: Music for Advent and Christmas Christ Church Cathedral Choir [ Nimbus / CD - released 1/Nov/2008 ] The magnificent Tavener piece headlines a collection of choral works which will make the ideal musical companion to anyone's Advent and Christmas. |
HOLST / WALTON
Make We Joy: Christmas Music Christ Church Cathedral Choir [ Nimbus / CD - released 1/Nov/2008 ] "'Musts' for Yuletide music in the air ..." San Fransisco Chronicle |
FRANCESCO DURANTE
Durante: Requiem / Organ Concerto Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Oxford Baroque, Soloists from The Sixteen [ Coro / CD - released 18/Nov/2016 ] "he soloists are uniformly excellent, and the string playing as crisp and alert as the fresh young voices of the Christ Church trebles" (Observer) |
DOMENICO SCARLATTI
Stabat Mater Christ Church Cathedral Choir Oxford / Francis Grier (organ) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 7/Jun/2004 ] 'I feel no hesitation in awarding this performance, and recording, full marks' - Hi Fi News |
JANACEK
The Lord's Prayer: choral & organ music Christ Church Cathedral Choir Oxford / Stephen Darlington [ Griifin / CD - released 30/Nov/2007 ] "In this recording Stephen Darlington draws refined singing from his choir, very English in timbre with fluting trebles...is most moving and original...this is a most refreshing issue." Edward Greenfield - Gramophone, 15/03/2004 |
TRADITIONAL
Evensong From Oxford Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Oxford, Stephen Darlington, with Clive Driskill-Smith (organ) [ Alto / CD - released 10/Jul/2017 ] "Nothing is overstated or outlandish, and the singing has a very pleasing polished and bright sound. Highly recommended" (Music Web International) |
MATHIAS
Church and Choral Music Christ Church Cathedral Choir / Stephen Darlington [ Nimbus / CD - released 12/May/2000 ] Another superb choral recording from Christ Church, Oxford! |