Stephen Layton
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American Polyphony
RecommendedDavid Allsopp (countertenor), Christopher Lowrey (countertenor) & Robert Millett (percussion)
Polyphony, Stephen Layton
This is the finest performance of Barber's Agnus Dei I've heard by any choir, live or on record…a wonderful recital, not to be missed. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 6th July 2015
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BBC Music Magazine, August 2015, Disc of the month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Meurig Bowen's notes observe that choral pieces composed in the 1990s suggested Pärt was moving into 'more complex, exotic harmonic territory'.
Some of his music began to give a glimpse of what... — More…Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2003, Editor's Choice
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The Songs of Robert Schumann - Volume 5
RecommendedDichterliebe and other Heine settings
Christopher Maltman (baritone) & Graham Johnson (piano)
With this superbly executed recital Maltman leaps in a single bound into the front rank of Lieder interpreters today. Seemingly inspired by the wonderful programme, he executes it with bitingly... — More…
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Building a Library, June 2010, Featured
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2001, Editor's Choice
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Yulefest! Christmas music from Trinity College Cambridge
Trinity College Choir Cambridge, Stephen Layton
All the popular selections…sound notably relaxed and idiomatic, the choir's stylistic versatility confidently demonstrated. — More…
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Grainger: Jungle Book
Recommended& other choral works
John Mark Ainsley (tenor) & David Wilson-Johnson (baritone)
Polyphony, Stephen Layton
Grainger's cycle evokes the lyrical side of Kipling's animal tales. As with the coupled folk arrangements, it's beautifully sung. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 31st January 2011
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Adès: America A Prophecy
RecommendedSongs & Choral Works
Robin Blaze, Christopher Maltman & Susan Bickley
Polyphony & City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Stephen Layton & Thomas Ades
Adès’s take on a Madness song about a stressed businessman is a hoot. Although Adès apparently did it from memory, it’s fairly accurate, right down to the piano’s cluster chords. — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2004, Winner - Contemporary
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Paradisum: Serene Sacred Songs Luciano Pavarotti (tenor), Renee Fleming (soprano), Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone), Anna Netrebko (soprano), Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano), Elina Garanca (mezzo), Andrea Bocelli (tenor), Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Juan Diego Florez (tenor), Jose Carreras (tenor), Angela Gheorghiu...
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Songs by Reynaldo Hahn
This two-CD set is the most representative recording of Hahn's songs ever made. It includes the complete Etudes Latines and Rondels (both with choir) as well as many of his most familiar songs.
Dame Felicity Lott (soprano), Susan Bickley (mezzo soprano), Ian Bostridge (tenor), Stephen Varcoe (baritone)
The London Schubert Chorale, Stephen Layton
The two cycles, Douze rondels and Etudes latines, are linked by a common fascination with the past.
The Douze rondels were composed to poems in a medieval metre, which allowed Hahn to try his... — More…2 CDs
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The Hyperion Schubert Edition - Complete Songs Volume 33
The Young Schubert
Marie Mclaughlin (soprano), Ann Murray, Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo sopranos), Philip Langridge, Daniel Norman, Adrian Thompson (tenors), Maarten Koningsberger, Stephen Varcoe (baritones), Graham Johnson (piano)
The London Schubert Chorale, Stephen Layton
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The Hyperion Schubert Edition - Complete Songs Volume 34
Schubert, 1817-1821
Lorna Anderson, Lynne Dawson, Patricia Rozario (sopranos), Marjana Lipovsek (mezzo soprano), Martyn Hill, Philip Langridge, Daniel Norman, Michael Schade (tenors), Gerald Finley, Matthias Goerne, Thomas Hampson, Simon Keenlyside, Stephan Loges, Christopher Maltman (baritones), Neal Davies (bass),...
In his guise as a wizard of an impresario, Graham Johnson has gathered together four baritones and one bass-baritone (Neil Davies) to give us a feast of finely wrought, intelligent interpretations.... — More…
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