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U.S. Girls
Heavy Light (LP) [ 4AD / LP - released 6/Mar/2020 ] Seventh album by U.S. Girls, the protean musical enterprise of multi-disciplinary artist Meg Remy. While Remy has been widely acclaimed for a panoply of closely observed character studies, on Heavy Light she turns inward, recounting personal... |
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Wiki Baker / St Joesphs' Maori Girls College Choir / New Zealand Maori Chorale
Maori Love Songs [ Viking Seven Seas / CD ] Wiki Baker with the St. Josephs' Māori Girls College Choir and the New Zealand Māori Chorale. Impeccable performances of "Pōkarekare Ana" and "Pō Atarau" ensure that Wiki Baker will always be "tops". The love stories of Pania of Hawkes Bay, Puhihuia... |
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ELIZABETH POSTON
Poston: Carols and Anthems Alexandra McPhee (soprano) Nina Vinther (mezzo) Ciaran Yeo (bass), etc / St Albans Cathedral Girls Choir, Lay Clerks of St Albans Cathedral [ Naxos / CD - released 24/Nov/2023 ] Elizabeth Poston's long and distinguished career included significant work for the BBC during the Second World War, where she performed as a respected pianist and later composed scores for numerous radio and television productions. Describing herself... |
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LEO WEINER
Weiner: Orchestral Works (Complete), Vol. 1 - Csongor and Tünde, Op. 10 Máté Szűcs (viola) / Jubilate Girls Choir, Budapest Symphony Orchestra MÁV, Valéria Csányi [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Jan/2016 ] "Weiner's music is consistently appealing and tuneful, the colorful scoring using the womens' chorus especially. Being a ballet, there's naturally some break in continuity and sometimes pantomimic bits, but Weiner keeps this to a minimum." (A.R.G.) |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Music for an Abbey's Year IV The Choir of Bath Abbey (Girls & Men) Directed by Peter King [ Priory / CD - released 1/May/2007 ] Recorded in Bath Abbey on 2,3,4, March 2005 |
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Girls Aloud
What Will the Neighbours Say? [ Polydor Records / CD - released 18/Apr/2005 ] Available on European import, 'WWTNS' features "Wake Me Up", "The Show", "Love Machine", "Jump" and "I'll Stand By You". |
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TALLIS / BYRD / GIBBONS / CROFT / GREENE / BOYCE / STANFORD
Great Cathedral Anthems - Canterbury Cathedral The Girls & Men of Canterbury Cathedral Choir, David Newsholme [ Signum / CD - released 26/Jan/2018 ] Drawing international media attention following their founding in 2014, the Girls' Choir of Canterbury Cathedral has quickly become a leading light in the landscape of british choral music For their first recording with Signum - led by their director... |
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BO HOLTEN
Wisdom and Folly and other Choral Works Jesper Juul Sorensen (trombone) / Danish National Girls Choir/DR / Danish National Choir/DR / Bo Holten, conductor [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 12/Jul/2005 ] "Music full of melodic, harmonic and rhythmic interest" (MusicWeb Dec 2005) |
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HANSON
Merry Mount, Op. 31 Lauren Flanigan / Walter MacNeil / Richard Zeller / Northwest Boychoir / Seattle Girls' Choir / Seattle Symphony Orchestra / Gerard Schwarz [ Naxos American Opera Classics / 2 CD - released 13/Jun/2007 ] The plot of his 1933 opera, Merry Mount, set in New England in 1625 during a conflict between the Puritans and the Cavaliers, is anything but merry. However, the composer described the music as “warm-blooded…essentially a lyrical work [that] makes... |
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Various Composers
Vox Feminae Les Kapsber'girls [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 28/Mar/2025 ] After their explorations of Italian repertoire in Che fai tù? (MU-037) and French in Vous avez dit brunettes? |
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GIOVANNI GIROLAMO KAPSBERGER
Kapsberger: Che fai tu? (Villanelles) Les Kapsber'girls [ Muso / CD - released 27/Mar/2020 ] "Formed in 2015 by four young musicians, Les Kapsber'girls, by their very name, send a nod and a wink to one of their favourite composers. It is thus quite natural that their first recording be dedicated to the works of Girolamo Kapsberger, a... |
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CARPENTER / HEAD / DEAZLEY / JOHNSTON
Only a Singing Bird Karen Cargill (mezzo) & Philip Moore (piano) / NYCoS National Girls Choir, Christopher Bell [ Signum Classics / CD - released 20/Feb/2016 ] A beautiful collection of songs, 'Only a Singing Bird' features Michael Head's best-known works, 'The Ships of Arcady' and 'The Little Road to Bethlehem', as well as his beautifully-imagined, nostalgic song-cycle, 'Snowbirds'. The National Youth... |
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BENJAMIN BRITTEN / ELIZABETH POSTON
Britten: A Ceremony of Carols / Poston: An English Day Book NYCoS National Girls Choir, Christopher Bell [ Signum / CD - released 20/Sep/2010 ] "The voices are rich-toned, well-balanced and powered by developing teenage musculature...The singers' Scottish brogue suits the antique poetry" ClassicFM |
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WILLIAM MATHIAS
Mathias: Choral Music Peter Foggitt (piano), Michael Papadopoulos (organ & Piano) & Tom Winpenny (organ) / St Albans Abbey Girls Choir, The Lay Clerks of St Albans [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Sep/2016 ] "This is a fine introduction to Sergei Bortkiewicz's piano music. The playing is impressive, technically assured and quite simply beautiful." MusicWeb |
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EDVARD GRIEG
Greig: Peer Gynt - Incidental music Peter Mattei, Camilla Tilling, Ellerhein Girls' Choir. Estonian National Male Choir. Estonian National Symphony Orchestra / Paavo Jarvi (conductor) [ Erato / Warner Classics / CD - released 4/Aug/2005 ] "Jarvi junior follows in father's footsteps with a worthwhile disc of Peer Gynt" (Gramophone) |
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RICHARD RODNEY BENNET
Letters to Lindbergh Philip Moore & Andrew West (piano) National Youth Choir of Scotland Girls Choir, Christopher Bell [ Signum / CD - released 17/Mar/2013 ] "This debut recording by Christopher Bell's NYCoS National Girls Choir could so easily have been just another recording of Britten's A Ceremony of Carols, but for two things: the wholesome confidence of the choir itself … and the successful... |
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BURRELL / LEIGHTON / BINGHAM / TAVENER etc
Ave Maria: Music for Upper Voices The St Catharine's Girls' Choir, Cambridge (choir); Edward Wickham (conductor) [ Resonus Classics / CD - released 1/Jul/2016 ] Following on from their acclaimed recording debut on 'Nova! Nova!' shared with the college choir of St Catharine's College, The Saint Catharine's Girls' Choir, make their solo debut with a full album of recent works for upper voices, with their... |
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The Vernons Girls
You Know What I Mean [ Jasmine / CD - released 12/May/2022 ] Stars of Jack Good's TV shows Oh Boy! and Boy Meets Girls, THE VERNONS GIRLS were pretty much a cottage industry of their own, with their various satellites and spinoffs. A sixteen-girl ensemble when Jack discovered them in 1957, by the turn of... |
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The Beautiful Girls
Spooks [ Die Boredom / CD - released 7/Jun/2010 ] The Beautiful Girls are no strangers to the stage or the road. For over ten years they have travelled far and wide, gathering fans from across the globe, constantly evolving as musicians and mastering their craft. From Brazil to Japan, the USA to... |
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The Beautiful Girls
Ziggurats [ Die Boredom Records / CD - released 26/Jun/2007 ] 'Ziggurats' is another curve in the TBG's sound. The influence of recent addition to the drum kit, Bruce Braybrooke shines through, producing a rockier, heavier sound to the pop skewed tunes. |