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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
My Beloved's Voice Choir of Jesus College Cambridge, Mark Williams [ Signum Classics / CD - released 30/Jun/2014 ] Mark Williams leads the Choir of the Jesus College Cambridge through an evocative selection of choral works inspired in varying ways by the Song of Solomon. |
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WILLIAM BYRD / BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Byrd / Britten The Choir of Jesus College, Cambridge, Mark Williams (director) [ Signum / CD - released 24/Feb/2017 ] "Byrd's scraping harmonies often sound no older than Britten's.The singing of Jesus Cambridge isn't always sharply defined but it is warm and breathy, topped by excellent boy choristers and best in stately slow music such as Byrd's Ave Verum Corpus." |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
War & Peace: Music for Remembrance The Choir of Jesus College Cambridge, Mark Williams (director) [ Signum / CD - released 25/Nov/2013 ] As the centenary of the Great War approaches, the choir of Jesus College Cambridge present a new programme of works titled War & Peace, a beautiful and moving collection of choral works that are united in various ways by the experiences and impact of... |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Out of Darkness: Music from Lent to Trinity The Choir of Jesus College Cambridge, Mark Williams [ Signum Classics / CD - released 9/Feb/2015 ] "The programme has been discerningly chosen and the standard of performance is set down at once with an excellent account of Byrd's Cunctis diebus. Here the College Choir achieves a good internal balance, sustains the polyphonic lines intelligently a |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Be Still, My Soul - Hymns from Magdalen Choir of Magdalen College Oxford, Mark Williams [ Coro / CD - released 6/Jun/2025 ] Featuring timeless melodies from Guide me, O thou great redeemer (known to millions as 'Bread of Heaven') to Abide with me, this stunning collection of some of the best-loved hymns of all time from The Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford, accompanied... |
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NICO MUHLY
Muhly: With Eys Lift Up Choir of Magdalen College Oxford, Mark Williams (conductor) [ Coro / CD - released 15/May/2026 ] Featuring 13 premiere recordings, With Eys Lift Up is a new collection of works written by American composer Nico Muhly for - and the majority commissioned by - the Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford. Comprising settings of the mass and canticles... |
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MATYAS SEIBER
Choral Music A Cappella Choir of the 21st Century, Howard Williams [ Somm / CD - released 1/Feb/2011 ] This new SOMM release, Mátyás Seiber's Music a cappella is a delightful collection of choral music written by a composer of great talent who died tragically early and at the height of his powers. The disc is certain to become a favourite among those... |
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TRADITIONAL / VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Adeste Fideles: Christmas Carols from her Majesty's Chapel Royal Choir of the Chapel Royal, Huw Williams [ Signum Classics / CD - released 16/Dec/2016 ] "The performances are excellent and the recording captures the performances expertly." MusicWeb |
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CHARLES GOUNOD
Gounod: Faust (complete original opera production from 1859) Véronique Gens, Andrew Foster-Williams; Benjamin Bernheim; Jean-Sébastien Bou /Flemish Radio Choir, Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset [ Bru Zane / 3 CD/Book - released 23/Aug/2019 ] "It also happens to be a terrific recording on its own terms...Rousset underpins it all with conducting that is fleet and dramatically engaged." Gramophone Awards 2020 Short list - Opera |
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SEMYON BARMOTIN
Barmotin: Piano Music - 20 Preludes / theme and Variations Christopher Williams (piano) [ Grand Piano / CD - released 10/Jun/2020 ] Semyon Alexeyevich Barmotin (1877-1939) was a student of Balakirev and Rimsky-Korsakov, and his fate under the Soviet regime in the 1930s remains a mystery, but what survives of his music is impressive in both scale and content. |
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FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Marches Christopher Williams (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 28/Aug/2026 ] Franz Liszt's lifelong engagement with the March is the focus of this volume. The March form offered a medium laden with public meaning allied to the possibility of reinvention and harmonic adventurousness. The symphonic depth of the... |
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FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Mendelssohn: Piano Rarities Christopher Williams (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 24/Nov/2023 ] Recent scholarship has brought numerous compositions by the excessively self-critical Mendelssohn into print and has ensured more accurate compositional dates for them. Many of these rare and little-known examples are encountered on this album. The... |
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SCHUBERT
Impromptus & Ländler D366 Cordelia Williams (piano) [ Somm / CD - released 1/Jul/2013 ] "Her playing has a warmth and finely judged flexibility that are immediately attractive...it's the spontaneity of the performances, as well as the beauty of the piano tone that linger in the mind." (BBC Music) |
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GABRIEL FAURE
Faure: Requiem (with Mozart-Ave verum corpus, K618, etc) Elin Manahan Thomas, Roderick Williams, Ruth Massey, Mark Dobell / The Sixteen / Academy of St Martin in the Fields / Harry Christophers [ Coro Live / CD - released 1/Apr/2008 ] The result of a brand new collaboration between two of the finest modern day exponents of classical music, this exquisite disc brings fresh life to Fauré's peerless Requiem and injects imaginative invention and poetic phrasing into two of Mozart's... |
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EDWARD ELGAR
Elgar: Starlight Express, Op. 78 Elin Manahan Thomas (soprano), Roderick Williams (baritone) & Simon Callow (narrator) / Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis [ Chandos SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 1/Nov/2012 ] "Davis secures absolutely first-rate results from the Scottish CO. Elin Manahan Thomas's light and slivery soprano could hardly be more suited to the parts of the Laugher and Jane-Anne, while Roderick Williams is in glorious voice throughout."... |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Golden Age of Light Music: Buried Treasures Robert Farnon, George Melachrino, Sidney Torch, Charles Williams, Wally Stott, Stanford Robinson, etc [ Guild / CD - released 20/Jun/2016 ] Sometimes commercial recordings are quickly deleted from record companies' catalogues long before they come to the attention of would-be purchasers. Other music is recorded for use purely within the worlds of broadcasting and films, and it is never... |
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ERNEST JOHN MOERAN
Solo Songs (Complete) Geraldine McGreevy (soprano) / Adrian Thompson (tenor) / Roderick Williams (baritone) / John Talbot (piano) [ Chandos / 2 CD - released 18/Aug/2010 ] "The songs comprise an impressive body, light-hued but intense, tinged with a distinctly Celtic melancholy...they're all well worth hearing." BBC Music Magazine, June 2010 ***** |
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Shakespeare: King Lear (recorded live Strafford-Upon-Avon, 2016) Royal Shakespeare Company / Antony Sher, Natalie Simpson, Nia Gwynne, Kelly Williams / Robin Lough (director) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 7/Aug/2017 ] King Lear has ruled for many years. As age begins to overtake him, he decides to divide his kingdom amongst his children, living out his days without the burden of power. |
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RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 1 'A Sea Symphony' Katherine Broderick (soprano) Roderick Williams (baritone) / Halle Choir, Youth Choir & Orchestra, Sir Mark Elder [ Halle / CD - released 6/Nov/2015 ] "The superbly honed choral and orchestral contribution surely testifies to many hours of painstaking preparation." (Gramophone Award Nomination 2016 - Orchestral) |
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Hank Williams
Five Classic Albums (Hank Williams Sings / Moanin' The Blues / Memorial Albums / Honky Tonkin' / Ramblin' Man) [ Avid / 2 CD - released 4/Aug/2017 ] Hank Williams was a man of many parts, Country singer Marty Stuart says he's "a part of the fabric of America" ... perhaps the first superstar of country music. As musical legends go they don't come much greater than Hiram King "Hank" Williams! Born... |