Browse: Mathias (composer)
This page lists all recordings composed by William Mathias (1934–92).
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Mathias: Choral Music - A May Magnificat; Learsongs; Riddles
St John's Voices, The Gentlemen of St John's, Graham Walker
Everything here is sung with freshness, security and rhythmic energy, and only at the biggest climaxes does one miss an ideal fullness of sound…the soloists [in Riddles] are from the main Choir... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2020
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Central to this valuable anthology of Mathias's church music is the tautly concentrated Missa brevis of 1973. It’s the outer movements that are most impressive, the Kyrie drawn tensely together... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2009, Editor's Choice
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Mathias probably comes closer to evoking the lost world of Sir Arnold Bax than he does to any composer of his own generation ... the BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra is commendably alert throughout... — More…
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Dancing Day: Music for Christmas
Saint Thomas Choir of Men & Boys, Fifth Avenue, New York, Sara Cutler, Stephen Buzard, Benjamin Sheen
John Scott
[Scott's] sudden death earlier this year makes Dancing Day perhaps the most poignant of discs and bears testament to his phenomenal musicianship and taste. The choir is absolutely secure from... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2015, Editor's Choice
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A Christmas Caroll from Westminster Abbey
RecommendedRobert Quinney (organ)
The Choir of Westminster Abbey, James O’Donnell
An ambitious and superbly sung programme, sympathetically framed within the choir's spaciously atmospheric home acoustic. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th December 2008
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On Christmas Night RecommendedCarols from St John’s College, Cambridge
John Challenger (organ)
The Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge, Andrew Nethsingha
The collective vocal heft of the ensemble's young choral scholars remains a potent weapon under Andrew Nethsinga's direction. He's a man of musical refinement, however, one ready and able to... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 5th December 2011
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In Terra Pax
RecommendedA Christmas Anthology
Julia Doyle (soprano), Roderick Williams (baritone) & Mark Williams (organ and piano)
City of London Choir & Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Hilary Davan Wetton
The gem here is Finzi's In terra pax… From late in Finzi's life, it is suffused with English pastoral yearning, and baritone Roderick Williams sings beautifully in the outer sections. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 30th November 2009
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