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JOHN RUTTER
Gloria: The Sacred Music of John Rutter The Cambridge Singers / The Philip Jones Brass Ensemble / The City of London Sinfonia / John Rutter [ Collegium / CD - released 18/Oct/2005 ] "This is a jewel of a record" (Gramophone) |
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JOHN RUTTER
The Sprig of Thyme: A cycle of folk song settings for mixed choir The Cambridge Singers with members of the City of London Sinfonia / John Rutter [ Collegium / CD - released 18/Oct/2005 ] This is a lovely disc; one to head my list of Christmas presents for musical friends. (Gramophone) |
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TRADITIONAL
The Cambridge Singers Christmas Album The Cambridge Singers with Stephen Varcoe (baritone); The City of London Sinfonia; directed by John Rutter [ Collegium / CD - released 20/Nov/2003 ] "Rutter has become the musical equivalent of Dickens, synonymous with the season of Christmas." Guardian |
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ALEXANDER GRECHANINOV
Grechaninov: Passion Week, Op. 58 Caroline Markham (mezzo-soprano) Paul Davidson (tenor) Bryan Taylor (baritone) / Phoenix Bach Choir / Kansas City Chorale / Charles Bruffy [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Mar/2007 ] "The massed forces of the Phoenix Bach Choir and the Kansas City Chorale make a formidable choral machine…If Grechaninov's music is sentimental in the best sense, this performance has an integrity and honesty to it which I found profoundly... |
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JONATHAN DOVE
There Was a Child CBSO Chorus / CBSO Youth Chorus / CBSO Children's Chorus / City of Birmingham Symphony / Simon Halsey [ Signum / CD - released 20/Aug/2012 ] "This is a live recording of an astonishingly assured performance...One might have preferred a less operatic voice than that of Joan Rodgers in this work, but this fine singer's performance is nonethless a most affecting one." (International Record... |
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ARNOLD / BOZZA / DAHL / MAURER / etc
Center City Brass Quintet Center City Brass Quintet [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 4/Sep/2002 ] the third release on Chandos from the USA's Brass Quintet. |
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Center City Brass Quintet Feza Zweifel, drums
Streetsong [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 17/Nov/2004 ] Renowned for its high energy and finely polished style, the Center City Brass Quintet comprises well-known soloists and leading players in America's top orchestras who convene regularly and who perform a diverse range of musical styles with equal... |
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Taoist Music Orchestra Shanghai City God Temple
Chinese Taoist Music [ Arc / CD - released 1/Aug/2013 ] This CD features simple, solemn and delicate Chinese Taoist melodies with traditional wind, string and percussion instruments. 'Chinese Taoist Music' is spiritual and relaxing. |
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CHARPENTIER
Messe de minuit pour Noel (with Poulenc-Quatre Motets) Choir of St John's College, Cambridge / City of London Sinfonia / George Guest [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 14/Dec/2007 ] This much-admired disc of French sacred music from the seventeenth and twentieth centuries, beautifully performed by the Choir of St John's College, Cambridge under George Guest, is now available at Chandos Classics price for the first time. |
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BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: A Ceremony of Carols / Saint Nicolas The Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge / Holst Singers / City of London Sinfonia, Stephen Layton (cond) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Oct/2012 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD FINALIST 2013: Choral |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Celebrate Beethoven - Choral Music Chorus Cathedralis Aboensis; City of London Choir; Key Ensemble, The; Nashville Symphony Chorus; Nicolaus Esterházy Chorus; Westminster Boys' Choir [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Aug/2020 ] From the vast Naxos catalogue comes the perfect introduction to the choral music of Ludwig van Beethoven. |
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TRADITIONAL
Christmas in Christchurch Christchurch City Choir, Christchurch Cathedral Choir, Woolston Brass, Christchurch Symphony Orchestra [ CSO / CD - released 11/Nov/2009 ] Christchurch Symphony Orchestra (CSO) is an artistic icon of the South Island and an established force in orchestral music within New Zealand. |
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City and Colour
If I Should Go Before You [ Dine Alone Records / CD - released 9/Oct/2015 ] If I Should Go Before You, the new album from world-renowned singer, songwriter and performer City and Colour (aka Dallas Green). Recorded at Nashville, Tennessee's Blackbird Studios, If I Should Go Before You was produced by Green with additional... |
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Richard St
Eine Alpensinfonie; Salomes Tanz City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons [ ORFEO / CD - released 27/Jan/2011 ] |
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PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Manfred Symphony / Marche Slave City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons [ Orfeo / CD - released 20/May/2015 ] "such is [Nelsons's] no-holds-barred conviction, sparky temperament and exhilirating mastery of line and texture that the 58 minutes fairly fly by…fingers crossed for the first three Tchaikovsky symphonies from these same artists!" (Gramophone) |
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Pjotr I. T
Symphonie No. 4 f-Moll op. 36, Francesca da Rimini - Fantasie op. 32 City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons [ ORFEO / CD - released 23/Sep/2011 ] |
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Pjotr I. T
Symphonie No. 5 e-Moll op. 64 Hamlet Ouvertüre op. 67 City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons [ ORFEO / CD - released 28/May/2009 ] |
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Pjotr I. T
Symphonie No. 6; Romeo und Julia City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons [ ORFEO / CD - released 10/Aug/2010 ] |
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PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 5 / Romeo and Juliet City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons [ Orfeo / CD - released 10/Mar/2013 ] "Nelsons's conception of the first movement leaves nothing to chance. Sombre but never earthbound, the slow introduction leads seamlessly to a first subject whose fugitive progress is the more ominous for its understatement." (International Record... |
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DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich: Symphony No 7 "Leningrad" City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons [ Orfeo / CD - released 10/Mar/2013 ] "Nelsons is excellent at judging the music's momentum, a considerable problem in the first movement but which he helps to solve by allowing himself some flexibility in tempo, not always marked in the score but musically justified." (Gramophone) |