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GEORGE DYSON
Dyson: Choral Symphony ' St paul's Voyage to Melita The Bach Choir / Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, David Hill [ Naxos / CD - released 5/Jun/2017 ] "Karabtchevsky and his Sao Paulo forces drive through the thick and teeming turmoil with panache. But they also cherish the tender and thinner moments when Villa Lobos's pulse slackens and lyricism peeks through" BBC Music |
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WILL TODD
Todd: Lights, Stories, Noise, Dreams & Noodles Bach Choir, David Hill [ Signum / CD - released 11/Oct/2019 ] "The recording is absolutely first rate, as are the performances. As should be obvious, I have thoroughly enjoyed this disc." MusicWeb |
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Bach Choir/Southern Sinf/Hill
Rütti: Requiem [ Naxos / CD - released 5/Oct/2009 ] Carl Rütti's choral music is "sensuous and exuberant by turns, combining dazzling rhythms and soaring melodies with distinctively lush harmonies" Choir & Organ magazine Of his Requiem, immense in scale yet often intimate in tone, the composer... |
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Ross Hill
The Garden [ CD ] |
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PETER WARLOCK
Warlock: Maltworms & Milkmaids - Warlock & The Orchestra BBC Concert Orchestra, David Hill, BBC Singers, Nadine Benjamin, Ben McCateer [ EM Records / CD - released 11/Aug/2023 ] This important release by EM Records, including no fewer than seventeen world premiere recordings, contains all of Peter Warlock's music which involves the use of an orchestra. Its title alludes to two of his compelling interests: beer, and the... |
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JUDITH WEIR
Storm BBC Singers, Choristers of Temple Church & Endymion, David Hill [ Signum Classics / CD - released 20/May/2015 ] "We start in the cathedral, with the densely spiralling alleluias of Weir's mesmerisingly beautiful millennium anthem, All the Ends of the Earth. The simpler textures of her Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis occasionally find the choir sounding harsh up h |
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JOHN McCABE
Visions - Choral Music BBC Singers, David Hill [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Dec/2012 ] The distinguished composer and pianist John McCabe has written in almost every genre, and has long been one of Britain's leading musicians. In his choral music he has taken a variety of texts - including anonymous sixteenth-century Latin, and the... |
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JUDITH BINGHAM
Bingham: Remoter Worlds BBC Singers, David Hill (conductor) [ Signum / CD - released 24/Nov/2008 ] The BBC Singers, led by David Hill, are the UK's only full-time professional chamber choir, and their repertoire and virtuosic versatility are almost boundless. The BBC Singers regularly work with the BBC's own orchestras as well as a number of... |
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BOB CHILCOTT
The Angry Planet BBC Singers, The Bach Choir, The Young Singers, London Youth Choir, Finchley Children's Music Group, David Hill [ Signum Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Aug/2015 ] The three works on this 2CD set further confirm Chilcott's status as one of the world's most popular active choral composers. The BBC recently gave Chilcott a [sell-out] concert from BBC Maida Vale, on 5th June, to celebrate BBC Music Day... |
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STRAVINSKY / RACHMANINOV / TCHAIKOVSKY
Russian Works For Piano Four Hands Benjamin Frith & Peter Hill (piano) [ Delphian / CD - released 22/Sep/2017 ] Sergei Rachmaninov, last of the great Romantic composers, and Igor Stravinsky, whose early scores for Diaghilev and the Ballet Russes revolutionised the musical world, had a shared fascination for the traditional music of their homeland.... |
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TRADITIONAL
VENITE, GAUDETE! Choral Music for Christmas IKON, David Hill, with David Dunnett (organ) [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Nov/2023 ] This glorious programme represents both the unique magic of Christmas carols, and the deeply rooted tradition of re-inventing their words and music for the times in which they are performed. |
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BRIGHT SHENG
Bright Sheng: The Phoenix / Red Silk Dance / Tibetan Swing / H'un (Lacerations) Bright Sheng (piano) / Shana Blake Hill (soprano) / Seattle Symphony Orchestra / Gerard Schwarz [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] The Phoenix, co-commissioned by the Seattle Symphony and Danish National Symphony Orchestra, was inspired by a Hans Christian Andersen tale, the mythical bird symbolizing for Chinese-American composer Bright Sheng "the muse of all peoples."... |
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HANDEL
The People Shall Hear! Great Handel Choruses Carolyn Sampson (soprano) Robin Blaze (counter-tenor) / The Bach Choir / The English Concert / David Hill [ BIS / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Mar/2009 ] Despite the fact that he wrote a large number of operas and instrumental works, Handel is often perceived as a choral composer - or, more specifically, as the composer of the Hallelujah chorus. |
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Clara Hill
All I Can Provide [ Sonar Kollektiv / CD - released 13/Feb/2007 ] On her second album, Clara Hill (assisted by the créme of clubland’s soul and jazz knob twisters) delivers twelve tracks full of soul, emotions and deepness, with a vivid passion for musical variety and sophisticated beats. |
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Clara Hill's Folkwaves
Sideways [ Sonar Kollektiv / CD - released 19/Nov/2007 ] "Superb production, an array of understated inspiration & of course Clara's great singing makes this an amazing album. If you like your singer/songwriters... then check this out!"-One Week to Live. |
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Clay Hammond & Z Z Hill
Southern Soul Brothers [ Ace Records U.K. / CD ] |
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W.A. MOZART
Concerto in A for Basset Clarinet plus vocal items Craig Hill (basset clarinet) Cyndia Sieden (soprano) / Australian Brandenburg Orchestra [period instruments] / Paul Dyer [ ABC Classics / CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] |
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Cypress Hill
The 420 Remixes (RSD 2022 10") [ Legacy / 10in - released 23/Apr/2022 ] Cypress Hill's self-titled debut album was an instant classic. In 2021, for its 30th anniversary, two favorite tracks were remixed and released digitally, and they're now ready to take the turntables, on 10" black vinyl, as part of Record Store Day's... |
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Cypress Hill
Back In Black [ BMG / ADA / CD - released 18/Mar/2022 ] Cypress Hill shifts culture. Since releasing its eponymous debut album in 1991, the California rap group has regularly revolutionized rap. B-Real and Sen Dog's innovative lyrics, distinctive voices and poignant street-centred subject matter... |
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Cypress Hill
Back In Black (LP) [ BMG / ADA / LP - released 18/Mar/2022 ] Cypress Hill shifts culture. Since releasing its eponymous debut album in 1991, the California rap group has regularly revolutionized rap. B-Real and Sen Dog's innovative lyrics, distinctive voices and poignant street-centred subject matter... |