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JOHN RUTTER
Rutter: Requiem and other Sacred Music Choir of Clare College, Cambridge / Timothy Brown (director) [ Naxos / CD - released 15/Jun/2003 ] Rosette Recording (highest rating) Penguin Stereo Guide - "If your tooth inclines to the sweet, this is one for you." (Gramophone Magazine, May 2003) |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
St Nicolas / Hymn to St Cecilia Anthony Rolf Johnson (tenor) Corydon Singers, English Chamber Orchestra, Matthew Best (conductor) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 1/Nov/2009 ] "A fresh and atmospheric account of Britten's colourful cantata" Penguin Guide |
ANTON BRUCKNER
Bruckner: Mass in F Minor / Psalm 150 Corydon Singers / Corydon Orchestra, Matthew Best [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 10/Oct/2011 ] "Quite magnificent … hoping for a better all-round performance than this is probably an impossible dream!" (Gramophone) |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: All-Night Vigil, Op 37 ('Vespers') Corydon Singers / Matthew Best [ Hyperion 30 / CD - released 1/Sep/2010 ] 'A memorable version of Rachmaninov's masterpiece, most beautifully sung and balanced, with rich and varied tone, and some outstanding soloists... buy this album immediately' (Musical Opinion) |
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Britten: Rejoice in the Lamb / A Wedding Anthem / Festival te Deum / A Boy was Born Corydon Singers, Matthew Best [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 17/Nov/2007 ] 'This beautifully made record deserves the widest circulation. The sound these choirs make is of great beauty, and is captured in a flawless recording full of atmosphere and warmth' (The Monthly Guide to Recorded Music) |
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Divine Liturgy of St John Chrysostom Opus 31 Peter Scorer (deacon) / Corydon Singers / Matthew Best (conductor) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Dec/1995 ] 'Outstanding. A performance that is at once perceptive, sympathetic and finely sung' (Gramophone) |
FAURE / DURUFLE
Requiem Ann Murray & Mary Seers (sopranos) Thomas Allen & Michael George (baritones) / Corydon Singers & English Chamber Orchestra / Matthew Best [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/May/2007 ] 'Superb' (Fanfare, USA) |
ROBERT SIMPSON
Complete Choral and Organ Music Corydon Singers Corydon Brass Ensemble Matthew Best (conductor) with Iain Quinn (organ of Winchester Cathedral) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Jan/2000 ] 'enthusiasts for the organ and choral music of our century have every reason to make its acquaintance'- Hi Fi News |
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Vaughan Williams: Serenade to Music / Five Mystical Songs / Flos Campi / etc Corydon Singers / English Chamber Orchestra, Matthew Best [ Hyperion 30 / CD - released 1/Sep/2010 ] 'Profoundly moving' (Gramophone) |
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Choral Works (4 CD set) [Incls Serenade to Music; Five Mystical Songs & Fantasia on Christmas Carols] Corydon Singers / Matthew Best [ Hyperion / 4 CD Box Set - released 20/Jun/2008 ] 'The quality of Best's choristers and his insistence on the highest standards hallmark the Corydon Singers' catalogue of Hyperion recordings, especially so in their Vaughan Williams output released here on four CDs … Best's sense of pacing, feeling... |
HERBERT HOWELLS
Requiem (with Vaughan Williams-Mass & Te Deum) Corydon Singers / Matthew Best [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 25/Mar/2008 ] 'One of the most luminous and touching of 20th-century Requiem settings' (Tower@classical music) |
TCHAIKOVSKY
Liturgy of St John Chrysostom Corydon Singers / Matthew Best, conductor [ Hyperion / CD - released 22/May/2005 ] 'I would go so far as to say that this recording carries more musical conviction than any of its rivals' - Classic CD |
BRAHMS
Motets Corydon Singers / Matthew Best with John Scott (organ) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 20/Jun/2010 ] 'A must for any serious collector' (Organists' Review) |
FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Missa Choralis & Via Crucis Corydon Singers, Thomas Trotter, organ, Matthew Best [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Nov/2000 ] 'I find the Corydon singers' performance of 'Via Crucis' utterly compelling and truly memorable…an essential Passiontide recording'(Organists'Review) |
BEETHOVEN
Mass in C major Janice Watson (soprano); Jean Rigby (mezzo); John Mark Ainsley (tenor); Gwynne Howell (bass) / Corydon Singers and Orchestra / Matthew Best [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 1/Sep/2007 ] "The performance of the Mass is as good as any modern instrument version I've heard and I'm delighted that it's been restored to the catalogue" (MusicWeb April 2007) |
BERLIOZ
L'Enfance du Christ Jean Rigby, Alastair Miles, Gerald Finley, John Aler / Corydon Singers & Orchestra / Matthew Best [ Hyperion Dyad / 2 CD - released 20/Oct/2008 ] 'Sonically it is a real gem, a superbly focused, natural and musical balance in which everything feels right' (Gramophone) |