JOHN SHEPPARD
John Sheppard: Media vita & other sacred music Westminster Cathedral Choir, Martin Baker [ Hyperion / CD - released 28/Jul/2017 ] Even by the standards of a time and place-Tudor England-in which masterpieces of choral polyphony appear to have been virtually an everyday occurrence, there is something uniquely and intensely compelling about the surviving works of John Sheppard.... |
GIOVANNI PIERLUIGI da PALESTRINA
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Palestrina: Music for Advent and Christmas Westminster Cathedral Choir, Martin Baker [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/Oct/2003 ] What better way to encapsulate the spirit of Christmas than with works of such devotional beauty, all sung with Westminster Cathedral Choir's customary finesse and atmospheric reverence |
HERBERT HOWELLS
The Winchester Service & other late works Winchester Cathedral Choir, Andrew Lumsden [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Jun/2011 ] "The recording is beautiful, bringing us fairly close to the choir whilst retaining a strong sense of the building. For seasoned Howells admirers, and, with the occasional health warning, for those beginning their Howells journey too, this disc is an... |
WEELKES
Anthems Winchester Cathedral Choir / David Hill [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 26/Jan/2008 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (Pre 1700) - 'What a feast is here! Superb, radiant, colourful singing of a perfect selection of Weelkes' music. A finer selection more persuasively sung would be hard to imagine. Buy it'... |
CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Stanford: Sacred Choral Music Winchester Cathedral Choir, David Hill [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Dec/1997 ] "Hill and the Winchester Choir are superb. The choral tone is luscious, the discipline outstanding, the recording captures the sumptuous acoustics of the cathedral without blurring the musical details" American Record Guide |
FRANCK / QUILTER / BACH / GOUNOD / FAURE / SCHUBERT / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE; I sing of a maiden Winchester Cathedral Choristers & Winchester College Quiristers, David Hill & Christopher Tolley [ Herald / CD - released 10/Nov/1997 ] Favourite music including Ave Maria, Pie Jesu, Panis Angelicus, Jesu Joy & Easter Hymn |
EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: Cathedral Music Worcester Cathedral Choir, Adrian Partington (organ) Donald Hunt (conductor) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Aug/2003 ] 'The Worcester performances are near ideal... vividly atmospheric recording' - Penguin Guide to Compact Discs |
EDWARD ELGAR
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Elgar: From the Bavarian Highlands / O salutaris Hostia 1 - 3 / Light of the World Worcester Cathedral Choir, Christopher Robinson [ Chandos Collect / CD - released 28/Jul/1993 ] World premiere recording of "From The Bavarian Highlands" Op. 27 |
Cathedral
The Last Spire [ Rise Above / CD - released 12/Apr/2013 ] |
Cathedral
A New Ice Age [ Rise Above / 12in - released 5/Dec/2011 ] |
Alexander Mason (The organ of Gloucester Cathedral)
Beyond The Score - Organ improvisations for Whit Sunday [ Signum / CD - released 8/Apr/2002 ] |
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... |
JONATHAN WILLCOCKS
A Great and Glorious Victory and other choral music Allan Clayton (tenor) / Portsmouth Choral Union / English Cathedral Singers / Southern Pro Musica Conducted by Jonathan Willcocks [ Priory / CD - released 11/May/2006 ] Recorded on 4th and 8th January 2006 at the Duke's Hall, Royal Academy of Music, London |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Grand Organ of Exeter Cathedral (concert recorded in 2011) [plus free CD] Andrew Millington (Grand organ of Exeter Cathedral) [ Priory DVD + CD / DVD/CD - released 1/Sep/2014 ] "This is one of the finest DVDs to come my way in quite some time...Millington makes every piece sound as if it had been written for Exeter.Beautifully filmed by Richard Knight - this is a splendid release, informative, enlightening and warmly recomm |
BACH / ELGAR / KARG-ELERT / LEFEBURE-WELY / WILLIAMS
The New Organ [CD+Blu-ray Video Edition Dolby Atmos] Konstantin Reymaier (organ of the St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna) [ Deutsche Grammophon CD plus Blu-ray Video / 2 CD/Blu-ray Disc - released 2/Oct/2020 ] For centuries, Vienna's St. Stephen's Cathedral has cultivated a strong musical tradition. A fire in 1945 destroyed the previous organ. The replacement is an astonishingly powerful and versatile instrument with countless shades of colours that remain... |
EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: Complete Organ Works Tom Winpenny ('Father' Willis organ of Hereford Cathedral) [ Naxos / CD - released 23/Sep/2022 ] The organ was a formative part of Edward Elgar's musical upbringing, and for a time he was organist at St George's Catholic Church in Worcester. The symphonic scale and distinctive themes of the First Sonata contrast with the more liturgical... |
Wells Cathedral Choir, Malcolm Archer, director
The English Hymn Volume 2 - Jerusalem the Golden [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Jan/2001 ] 'Delivered with crisp, evocative conviction' (Classic FM Magazine) After the success of Volume 1 (CDP12101, issued November 1999) this volume surveys some of the great hymn tunes of the 19th century. With many favourites such as Praise my soul,... |
MUSIC FOR ORGAN AND BRASS
Music for Organ and Brass (Incls Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition) Arthur Wills (Ely Cathedral organ) / The Cambridge Co-Operative Band / David Read [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 11/Nov/2005 ] 'Arthur Wills on the organ of Ely Cathedral combines with the Cambridge Co-Op Brass Band in his own picturesque and descriptive Fenlands Suite and his arrangements of familiar music by Elgar and Walton. For power without distortion and overall... |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Missa Solemnis (LP) Berlin Philharmonic, Karl Bohm, Maria Stader, Marianna Radev, Anton Dermota, Josef Greindl, Choir of St. Hedwig's Cathedral [ Vinyl Passion Classical / 2 LP - released 1/Jan/2018 ] |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
50th Anniversary EP The Boy Choristers of Winchester Cathedral [ Signum / CD - released 11/Mar/2016 ] Winchester Cathedral celebrate 50 years since the release of Geoff Stephen's Winchester Cathedral - a 1966 release for the New Vaudeville Band that reached No.1 in the charts in the USA and Canada, selling over 3 million copies and subsequently... |