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HANDEL
Messiah (highlights) Lynne Dawson, John Mark Ainsley, Alastair Miles / Choir of King's College, Cambridge / Brandenburg Consort / Stephen Cleobury [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 15/Oct/2008 ] Originally Handel was Händel. But the German composer was welcomed in England with open arms. Thus he could leave out the Umlaut from his name. The great oratorio Messiah is Handel's best known work. This is a selection of highlights, of course the... |
TRADITIONAL
Christmas Carols From Oxford Magdalen College Choir, John Harper, conductor [ Alto / CD - released 1/Dec/2014 ] "..Magdalen College Oxford played an important part in the Victorian revival of the celebration of Christmas and especially of carol singing.. key figure.. J R Bloxam, Fellow of Magdalen.. first held a musical entertainment for Magdalen choristers.. |
BYRD / TALLIS / PURCELL / BOYCE / HOWELLS / BRITTEN / etc
English Anthems from Oxford Magdalen College Choir, Oxford / John Harper [ ALTO / CD - released 1/Mar/2011 ] 17 anthems in date order including Byrd, Tallis, Gibbons, Weelkes and Tomkins. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Arise my love - Music for the Break of Day Magdalen College Choir, Oxford, Mark Williams (conductor) [ Coro / CD - released 9/Jan/2026 ] Spanning 500 years from the exquisite simplicity of Thomas Tallis' perfect miniature O nata lux through Britten's jubilant Festival Te Deum to Cheryl Frances-Hoad's majestic O come let us sing unto the lord, this album celebrates the hope and... |
J.S. BACH
St. Matthew Passion BWV 244 (Complete oratorio) Michael George (bass) Emma Kirkby (soprano) Michael Chance (counter-tenor) David Thomas (bass) / The Choir of King's College, Cambridge. The Choir of [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 14/Aug/2005 ] "This is a fine recording...For many people, though, the King's forces and Emma Kirkby, with Michael Chance doing all the alto solos, will prove a willing combination. And at super budget price, you cannot go far wrong. There is a complete libretto... |
JOHN IRELAND / GRAYSTON IVES
The Organ Works of John Ireland and Grayston Ives Myles Hartley (The Organ of Harris Manchester College, Oxford) [ Priory / CD - released 20/Jun/2016 ] "Myles Hartley, Director of Music at Harris Manchester College plays with sensitivity in the gentler works and conveys the pomp and drama of the more exuberant ones, while exploiting the full resources of the Nicholson instrument." Organists Review |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Requiem in D minor, K626 Jonty Ward (treble), James Swash (alto), Guy Cutting (tenor), Jonathan Howard (baritone) / New College Choir Oxford, Edward Higginbottom [ Novum / CD - released 31/May/2011 ] "Edward Higginbottom has opted to ignore the plethora of more recent completions in favour of Süssmayr's "official" version, his faithfulness extending to drawing individual soloists from the choir, even using male voices for the higher parts. It's a |
RODERICK WILLIAMS
Roderick Williams: Sacred Choral Works Old Royal Naval College Trinity Laban Chapel Choir, Ralph Allwood, Jonathan Eyre [ Signum Classics / CD - released 15/Dec/2017 ] On their premiere recording, the Old Royal Naval College Trinity Laban Chapel Choir, directed by celebrated choral conductor Ralph Allwood, perform the works of British Choral Award winner Roderick Williams. Based in Greenwich, East London the choir... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
An Evening Hymn: Music For Solo Treble Oliver Lepage-Dean (Treble) / The Choir Of St John'S College Cambridge / Christopher Whitton (Organ) / Christopher Robinson (Director & Piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 22/Sep/2007 ] "His [Oliver Lepage-Dean] voice is well recorded: firm and even, true in pitch, pure in quality. In two items he sings, as soloist, with the choir: Stanford's G Major Magnificat (the treble's violin concerto) and Mendelssohn's Geistliches Lied... |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Laudate Dominum: Vespers & Litanies Schola Cantorum of Oxford, the Choir of St John's College Cambridge, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, The Wren Orchestra, Neville Marriner, George [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 10/Apr/2014 ] "Mozart at his most imaginative and vital...highly responsive performance" Penguin Guide |
MAURICE DURUFLE
Durufle: Requiem / Messe Cum Jubilo / Quatre Motets Patricia Bardon (contralto), Ashley Riches (baritone) / The Choir of King's College Cambridge & Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Stephen Cleobur [ King' College Live / CD - released 9/Sep/2016 ] For this new recording the choir are reunited with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment to perform Maurice Duruflé's 1947 'Requiem', in the composer's own version for soprano, choir, organ and small orchestra. The album is completed with the... |
GORDON CROSSE
Purgatory (1966) Opera in One Act Peter Bodenham (tenor) Glenville Hargreaves (baritone) / Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Northern College of Music / Michael Lankester, [ Lyrita / CD - released 20/Mar/2008 ] "This edgy, ruthless, creepy and dissonant little two-hander is presented to best advantage. One cannot imagine needing another recording after this despite its three decades' vintage." (MusicWeb March 2008) |
JOHN WARD
Fantasies & Verse Anthems Phantasm & Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford [ Linn SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Sep/2014 ] "Incisive performances that invite you into the music without fuss and without getting in the way." (MusicWeb Jan 2015) |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Messiah (1751 Version) Robert Brooks / Iestyn Davies / Eamonn Dougan / New College Choir / Academy of Ancient Music / Edward Higginbottom (Conductor) [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 7/Nov/2006 ] "This is a very special recording. Not only is it of quite outstanding quality both musically and dramatically, but, being sung entirely by male voices associated with a single institution, it probably comes as close as modern conditions permit to |
J. S. BACH
Organ Works Robert Quinney (Metzler Organ of Trinity College, Cambridge) [ Coro / CD - released 1/Jul/2013 ] "the most distinctive feature is the way Quinney's authoritative distillation of the music never results in dry, academic essays - while, also, never playing to the gallery with maverick rhetorical effects...Quinney's Bach gets to the heart of the mu |
Robert Quinney; Choir of New College Oxford
New College: Commissions & Premieres [ Linn Records / CD - released 23/Jun/2023 ] The Choir of New College Oxford is one of the world's foremost choral foundations. The music composed for it in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries thus provides a compelling historical tour of changing musical styles and liturgical practices.... |
J. S. BACH
Organ Works Vol III Robert Quinney (Metzler Organ of Trinity College, Cambridge) [ Coro / CD ] Following two highly acclaimed recordings, CORO is delighted to be releasing its third album with one of The Sixteen Orchestra's principal members - organist Robert Quinney. This new album will be recorded at Trinity College, Cambridge, on the... |
JOHN BLOW
Blow: Venus & Adonis Rosemary Joshua (sop), Gerald Finley (bar), Robin Blaze (countertenor), Clare College, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Renae Jacobs [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 29/Sep/2008 ] "Rene Jacobs and his musicians present Blow's Venus and Adonis with persuasive style and dramatic clarity...Venus's lament and the closing plaintive chorus touch the heart deeply." (Daily Telegraph) |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Experiments on a March Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra / Clark Rundell [ Chandos / CD - released 27/Apr/2008 ] This disc is sure to delight lovers of marching band music, and will be an ideal introduction for those keen to discover more about this delightful genre of music. |
HESKETH / SKALKOTTAS / CORIGLIANO / GORB
Dances With Winds Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra / Clark Rundell, conductor [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 6/Mar/2005 ] The four sets of dances for wind orchestra recorded here are from different times and places: the Mediterranean in the 1930s, the United States in the 1970s, contemporary Britain. But between them they show how readily dance idioms can be used to... |
