Browse: Swayne (composer)
This page lists all recordings composed by Giles Swayne (b.1946).
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The Hermes Experiment’s calm exterior often hides a powerful force that darts about energetically beneath...[Its] main strength lies in its ability to adapt to the particular needs, demands and... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, July 2020
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2020, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2020
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It's when the pedal goes down (literally and metaphorically) that this disc really soars, startling the ear into ecstasy with the sudden release of Rachmaninov's Cherubic Hymn, the 'bright Seraphim'... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2019, Editor's Choice
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The NMC Songbook
RecommendedSopranos - Claire Booth, Ailish Tynan, Elizabeth Atherton
Mezzo-sopranos - Susan Bickley, Loré Lixenberg, Jean Rigby
Countertenors - James Bowman, Michael Chance, Andrew Watts
Tenors - Andrew Kennedy, Daniel Norman, Benjamin Hulett
Baritones - Stefan Loges, Roderick Williams,...
…anyone listening to these discs will find many things to savour… It is, inevitably an eclectic mix, but, as in any well-planned song recital, the progressions and juxtapositions are continually... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th April 2009
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Winner - Contemporary
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Nethsingha asks a lot of his 33 singers in terms of nuance and dynamic contrast – far more than most collegiate choirs are capable of – and their corporate virtuosity is palpable in a thrillingly... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2021, Editor's Choice
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Organs of Edinburgh
Usher Hall – John Kitchen, St Cuthbert’s Parish Church – Thomas Laing-Reilly, Palmerston Place Church – Andrew Caskie, St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral- Duncan Ferguson, Freemasons’ Hall – Timothy Byram-Wigfield, St Andrew’s & St George’s West Parish Church – Michael Harris, Broughton St Mary’s Parish...
This is a magnificent package, fully befitting its subject...The entire collection is a veritable treasure-trove, a feast for lovers of organ music...Just 2,000 copies of this will ever be published... — More…
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Giles Swayne - Convocation
Michael Bonaventure & Stephen Wallace
National Youth Choir of Great Britain & Laudibus, Mike Brewer
The two choirs on this disc… enter whole-heartedly into the spirit of the music. — More…
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This intriguing programme is all in the family: Elizabeth Maconchy was Nicola LeFanu’s mother and Giles Swayne’s cousin...These composers have little in common stylistically, but each offers... — More…
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Ascendit Deus: Music for Ascensiontide & Pentecost Peter Harrison, Matthew Jorysz (organ)
Choir of Clare College, Cambridge & The Dmitri Ensemble, Graham Ross
the famous setting of Ascendit Deus by Peter Philips spurts forward like a colt sprung freshly from a stable, the vocal decorations spinning vertiginously round like Monteverdi. It's a bracing... — More…
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Sanctissima
RecommendedVespers and Benediction For the Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary
ORA Singers, Suzi Digby
Olivier Tarney’s awestruck depiction of the Assumption in In Homeward Flight – the only English-language setting on the programme – was the work which made the strongest initial impact on me,... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 18th August 2023
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…this outstanding issue celebrates 20 years of carols newly commissioned for the annual Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols. The two CDs are stuffed with memorable settings - Jonathan Dove's... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2005, Christmas Special Choice
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