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BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: Spring Symphony / Welcome Ode / Psalm 150 Alfreda Hodgson (contralto), Elizabeth Gale (soprano), Martyn Hill (tenor) / Southend Boys Choir, London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox [ Chandos Hickox Legacy / CD - released 19/Jul/2013 ] This re-release of the Spring Symphony, complemented by two smaller but equally life-confirming works by Britten, marks the composer's centenary year. It also forms part of our ongoing Richard Hickox Legacy series, which pays tribute to this great co |
Andrew Hill
Black Fire (Gatefold LP) [ Blue Note Tone Poet Series / LP - released 3/Sep/2021 ] Andrew Hill's Black Fire is both the pianist and composer's debut and an acknowledged masterpiece of modern post-bop jazz. Featuring a sublime quartet with Joe Henderson on tenor saxophone, Richard Davis on bass, and Roy Haynes on drums, the music... |
Andrew Hill
Black Fire (180g LP) [ EMI Bluenote US Jazz / LP - released 16/Jan/2015 ] Considered a modern jazz classic, "Black Fire", by jazz pianist and composer, Andrew Hill, is reissued as part of an overall Blue Note 75th anniversary vinyl initiative spearheaded by current Blue Note Records President, Don Was. "Black Fire" was... |
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JEAN GILLES
Messe des Morts [Requiem] Anne-Marie Rodde, Jean Nirouet, Martyn Hill, Peter Kooy / Collegium Vocale Gent / Philippe Herreweghe [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Mar/2009 ] 'This is in short a performance with the carefully moulded contours, sensitively judged sonic qualities and sheer spiritual presence that we have come to recognize over the years as true Herreweghe characteristics.' Gramophone |
WALTON
Christopher Columbus - Suite / Songs after Edith Sitwell / The Twelve Arthur Davies (tenor) Jill Gomez (soprano) Martyn Hill (tenor) / Westminster Singers [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 1/Jul/2002 ] Unusual works of William Walton |
Asylum on the Hill
Passage to the Puzzle Factory [ Suburban / CD - released 29/Aug/2011 ] |
HERBERT HOWELLS
Howells: Missa Sabrinensis & Michael Fanfare The Bach Choir, BBC Concert Orchestra, David Hill [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/May/2020 ] "If you don't know Howells' music, this splendid new recording of one of his most powerful works is likely to win new friends, who will want to investigate further the many very fine Hyperion recordings" MusicWeb |
GEORGE DYSON
Dyson: Choral Symphony ' St paul's Voyage to Melita The Bach Choir / Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, David Hill [ Naxos / CD - released 5/Jun/2017 ] "Karabtchevsky and his Sao Paulo forces drive through the thick and teeming turmoil with panache. But they also cherish the tender and thinner moments when Villa Lobos's pulse slackens and lyricism peeks through" BBC Music |
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 |
Bach Choir/Southern Sinf/Hill
Rütti: Requiem [ Naxos / CD - released 5/Oct/2009 ] Carl Rütti's choral music is "sensuous and exuberant by turns, combining dazzling rhythms and soaring melodies with distinctively lush harmonies" Choir & Organ magazine Of his Requiem, immense in scale yet often intimate in tone, the composer... |
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Ross Hill
The Garden [ CD ] |
W.A. MOZART
Horn Music (Complete) Barry Tuckwell (horn) with Derek Wickens (oboe) Robert Hill (clarinet) Sheila Armstrong (soprano) and John Ogdon (piano) / English Chamber Orchestra [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 25/Feb/2006 ] Mozart's ever popular concertos lead a collection of Mozart's music for horn. Outstanding performances from Barry Tuckwell as he celebrates his 75th birthday year. |
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 |
JOHN McCABE
Visions - Choral Music BBC Singers, David Hill [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Dec/2012 ] The distinguished composer and pianist John McCabe has written in almost every genre, and has long been one of Britain's leading musicians. In his choral music he has taken a variety of texts - including anonymous sixteenth-century Latin, and the... |
BOB CHILCOTT
The Angry Planet BBC Singers, The Bach Choir, The Young Singers, London Youth Choir, Finchley Children's Music Group, David Hill [ Signum Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Aug/2015 ] The three works on this 2CD set further confirm Chilcott's status as one of the world's most popular active choral composers. The BBC recently gave Chilcott a [sell-out] concert from BBC Maida Vale, on 5th June, to celebrate BBC Music Day... |
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Bbc Singers/Hill
Remoter Worlds [ Signum / CD - released 24/Nov/2008 ] |
STRAVINSKY / RACHMANINOV / TCHAIKOVSKY
Russian Works For Piano Four Hands Benjamin Frith & Peter Hill (piano) [ Delphian / CD - released 22/Sep/2017 ] Sergei Rachmaninov, last of the great Romantic composers, and Igor Stravinsky, whose early scores for Diaghilev and the Ballet Russes revolutionised the musical world, had a shared fascination for the traditional music of their homeland.... |
HERBERT HOWELLS
Howells: Stabat Mater / Sine Nomine, Op. 37 / Te Deum Benjamin Hulett (tenor) Alison Hill (soprano) / The Bach Choir & Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, David Hill [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Dec/2014 ] "The Bach Choir has a palpable vibrancy in its range and layers of dynamics which are complemented by the extensive and highly sensitive palette of Howells's orchestra...and the incisive solo tenor role of Benjamin Hulett." Gramophone Editor's Choice |
BRIGHT SHENG
Bright Sheng: The Phoenix / Red Silk Dance / Tibetan Swing / H'un (Lacerations) Bright Sheng (piano) / Shana Blake Hill (soprano) / Seattle Symphony Orchestra / Gerard Schwarz [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] The Phoenix, co-commissioned by the Seattle Symphony and Danish National Symphony Orchestra, was inspired by a Hans Christian Andersen tale, the mythical bird symbolizing for Chinese-American composer Bright Sheng "the muse of all peoples."... |
HANDEL
The People Shall Hear! Great Handel Choruses Carolyn Sampson (soprano) Robin Blaze (counter-tenor) / The Bach Choir / The English Concert / David Hill [ BIS / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Mar/2009 ] Despite the fact that he wrote a large number of operas and instrumental works, Handel is often perceived as a choral composer - or, more specifically, as the composer of the Hallelujah chorus. |
