Latest News: Classical, Stephen Layton (conductor)
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Interview,
Choral Works by Owain Park 20th November 2018The young singer, conductor and composer talks to David about his choral works as recently recorded on Hyperion by Stephen Layton and The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge.
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Interview,
Stephen Layton on the choral works of Stanford 2nd August 2017Stephen Layton, Director of Music at Trinity College Cambridge, talks to David about his recent disc with the chapel choir.
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Interview,
American choral works from Stephen Layton and Polyphony 22nd July 2015Stephen Layton talks to David about his recent disc of American choral music with Polyphony.
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Recording of the Week,
Handel Chandos Anthems from Stephen Layton and the Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge 8th July 2013Transparent textures and stylish but unfussy phrasing are the order of the day in these buoyant accounts of the anthems which Handel composed during his year-long musical residency at the home of James Brydges, the Paymaster General during the War of Spanish Succession.
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Recording of the Week,
JS Bach: St John Passion from Polyphony and Layton 18th February 2013The crowd-scenes crackle with terrifying energy and Ian Bostridge’s volatile Evangelist brings great narrative momentum, whilst Iestyn Davies and Richard Tunnicliffe’s eloquence in ‘Es ist vollbracht’ is worth the price of the set alone.