More By Artist: Voices
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ANDREA GABRIELI
Missa Pater Peccavi His Majesty's Consort of Voices / His Majesty's Sagbutts and Cornetts / Timothy Roberts [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 22/Jan/2007 ] 'A welcome addition to the catalog … excellent playing of His Majesty's Sagbutts and Cornetts - their contributions to the program are uniformly brilliant. Makes me want to hear more' (Goldberg) |
GIOACCHINO ROSSINI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Amore per Rossini Jennifer Larmore (mezzo soprano) / London Voices / English Chamber Orchestra, Giuliano Carella [ Teldec / CD - released 14/Jul/1998 ] Mezzo-soprano Jennifer Larmore lacks Cecilia Bartoli's expansive charm and personal magnetism, but she is more enterprising and versatile, as evidenced by this disc of little-known contralto arias. |
FERRUCCIO BUSONI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Busoni: Concerto for piano, orchestra & male chorus, Op.39 John Ogdon (piano) / Men's Voices of the John Alldis Choir / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Daniell Revenaugh [ EMI Classics / CD - released 12/Feb/1989 ] Busoni's vast Piano Concerto lasts for nearly 70 minutes, and as well as the usual piano and orchestra combination requires, in the last of its five movements, a choir of men's voices. It was completed in 1904 and first performed in Berlin on 4... |
Soundtrack, with singing voices of Marni Nixon, Jimmy Bryant, Tucker Smith, Betty Wand, George Chakiris
West Side Story [ Sony / CD ] West Side Story is a 1961 American musical romantic drama film directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins, written by Ernest Lehman. The music was composed by Leonard Bernstein, with lyrics by Stephen Sondheim. |
WILL TODD
Todd: Passion Music, Jazz Missa Brevis St Martin's Voices, Will Todd Ensemble, Shaneeka Simon( vocals), John Turville (piano), Will Todd (conductor) [ Signum / CD - released 1/Feb/2019 ] Will Todd has established himself as one of the UK's most popular choral composers. His anthem, The Call of Wisdom, was performed at the Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations with a TV audience of 45 million people. His breakthrough work, Mass in... |
DANIEL-FRANCOIS-ESPRIT AUBER
Auber: Le domino noir / Gustave III Ballet Music Sumi Jo, Isabelle Vernet, Bruce Ford, Patrick Power / London Voices & English Chamber Orchestra, Richard Bonynge [ Australian Decca Eloquence / 2 CD - released 13/Dec/2017 ] "Bonynge makes the ideal advocate, moulding melodies, springing rhythms and aerating textures to make the music sparkle from first to last. … The recording is among Decca's most vivid." Penguin Guide |
TRADITIONAL
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Carols from the Old and New Worlds Theatre of Voices, Paul Hillier [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 23/Oct/2004 ] On this volume of Carols from the Old and New Worlds, Paul Hillier and the Theatre Of Voices celebrate the festive season with a wide-ranging mixture of new and traditional carols. |
GIBBONS / DERING / EAST / RAVENSCROFT / WEELKES
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: The Cries Of London Theatre Of Voices, Fretwork [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 10/Jul/2006 ] Theatre of Voices and Fretwork are heard in a selection of the Cries of London, in which music for viol consort is overlaid - sometimes comically, sometimes poignantly - with the raucous voices of 16th-century London's street-vendors, mendicants,... |
ROSS HARRIS
Harris: Face / Symphony No. 6 'Last Letter' Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir, Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, Giordano Bellincampi, Antony Hermus [ Naxos / CD - released 4/Dec/2020 ] In Symphony No. 6 'Last Letter', Ross Harris explores settings of four poems by Vincent O'Sullivan, interlinking them with three musical interludes. The darkness of the subject matter draws from the composer music of powerful and at times despairing... |
PALESTRINA / BRUCKNER / MENDELSSOHN / VICTORIA / FAURE / DURUFLE / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mysteries Beyond - songs and chants in the praise of Mary Kathleen Bride (soprano), Mark Krucez (organ), Vinson Cole (tenor), Patrick Stephens (piano) / Voices Of Ascension, Dennis Keene [ Delos / CD - released 2/Feb/1994 ] Voices of Ascension Chorus and Orchestra, founded and directed by conductor Dennis Keene, is one of the world's premier professional choral ensembles. |
Guided By Voices
Motivational Jumpsuit [ Fire / CD - released 21/Feb/2014 ] Motivational Jumpsuit is the latest, bestest release by reunited indierock (whatever that means) juggernaut (means an unstoppable force) Guided By Voices. It speaks in several silvery tongues, and like last year's English Little League takes many... |
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Bach: Cantatas Nos 106 & 182 Amici Voices [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Mar/2019 ] Bach may only have been in his early twenties when he wrote it, but Cantata No 106 (the 'Actus tragicus') is a profound contemplation of things final; the motet 'Komm, Jesu, komm' occupies similar eschatalogical territory. This is an... |
BUXTEHUDE
Scandinavian Cantatas Bine Bryndorf (organ) / Theatre of Voices / TOV Band / Paul Hillier [ DACAPO SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 27/Jan/2011 ] "[Theatre of Voices] breathe new life into this stimulating but neglected 17th-century repertoire, aided by the splendidly crisp TOV band. Soprano Else Torp, countertenor William Purefoy and bass Jakob Bloch Jespersen shine among the singers. Highly... |
MERIDETH MONK
Atlas (an opera in 3 parts) Carlos Aravalo, Thomas Bogdan, Victoria Boomsma, Janis Brenner, Susan Iadone (voices) / Darryl Kubian (violin) / Wayne Hankin (conductor) [ ECM Records / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] Recorded June 1992 |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Renouncement Christian Forshaw (saxophone) with Grace Davidson (soprano) / Sanctuary Voices [ Integra Records / CD - released 16/Apr/2007 ] Renouncement contains more spellbinding arrangements of hymns with soaring saxophone solos and haunting soundscapes with the intimate and haunting vocals of soprano Grace Davidson |
JAN NOVAK
Testamentum Clara Novakova (flute) / Martinů Voices, Lukáš Vasilek [ Supraphon / CD - released 28/Jul/2014 ] This disc of choral works...can be highly recommended both for the quality of the music and for performances of jaw-dropping skill and insight by the Martinu Voices. |
TRADITIONAL
Troubadours: Minnesanger & other Courtly Arts (Southern France, 11th & 12th centuries) Clemencic Consort / Rene Clemencic (dir) / Paul Hillier / Theatre of Voices / The Harp Consort / Andrew Lawrence King / Dufay Collective / etc [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 20/Sep/2009 ] The programme of this CD, accompanied by full explanatory notes, features the poems and songs of the trouvères, troubadours and Minnesingers. These inventors of an (almost) exclusively secular poetic style were also the first musicians to emerge from... |
TRADITIONAL
Trouveres & Troubadours: Minnesanger & other courtly arias Clemencic Consort / Rene Clemencic (dir) / Paul Hillier / Theatre of Voices / The Harp Consort / Andrew Lawrence King / Dufay Collective / etc [ Harmonia Mundi Century / CD - released 20/Dec/2011 ] A thrilling voyage of discovery of music through the ages. Poems and songs of the Trouveres, troubadours and Minnesingers. |
BARBER / CARTER / LAURIDSEN / O'REGAN / TRADITIONAL / etc
A Company of Voices: Conspirare in Concert Conspirare / The Company of Voices [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Jun/2012 ] This CD captures the exquisite sound of Conspirare's Company of Voices, as heard and seen on national television in the US. In this one-hour concert contemporary music blends seamlessly with classical favourites, taking the listener on a journey of... |
HOWELLS / WHITACRE / GRANTHAM / PIZZETTI
Requiem Conspirare / The Company of Voices [ Harmonia Mundi SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Mar/2012 ] "The perfect, and perfectly lovely, unity of Conspirare's choral tone was not entirely welcome. But they're not bland: their care for words and expression guards against that, as does their alertness to changes of mood, whether by movement or... |
