City of London Sinfonia
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John Rutter: Requiem
RecommendedNicolas Rimmer (organ), Elin Manahan Thomas (soprano)
Choir of Clare College Cambridge, City of London Sinfonia, Timothy Brown
Naxos continues its conquest of Cambridge's college choirs and finds that from Clare College on excellent form. I suspect this will be one of those Naxos recordings that sells by the ten thousand... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2003, Editor's Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Special offer. Herbert Howells: Music for Strings
RecommendedCity of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox
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Special offer. Rossini: Stabat Mater
RecommendedHelen Field (soprano), Della Jones (contralto), Arthur Davies (tenor), Roderick Earle (bass)
London Symphony Chorus, City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox
Hickox rightly presents Rossini's Stabat Mater warmly and with gutsy strength...All four soloists here are first rate, not Italianate of tone but full and warm, and the London Symphony Chorus... —
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Rutter: Gloria & Other Sacred Music
Polyphony, City of London Sinfonia & Wallace Collection, Stephen Layton
This superb disc contains a balanced cross- section of Rutter's sacred choral music, spanning over a quarter century and featuring several first recordings. Rutter's stylistic hallmarks are... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2001, Editor's Choice
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Britten: Death in Venice
Philip Langridge (Aschenbach), Alan Opie (Traveller/Elderly Fop/Old Gondolier/Hotel Manager/Hotel Barber/Leader of the Players/Voice of Dionysus), Michael Chance (Voice of Apollo)
BBC Singers, City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox
The Pears/Bedford version tends to emphasise the opera's elegiac side… The Chandos… is certainly not lacking in depth. But it also has an incisive clarity matching Richard Hickox's generally... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2005, Finalist - Opera
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2005, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2005, Editor's Choice
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Fauré - Requiem
Recommendedand other sacred music
Caroline Ashton (soprano), Stephen Varcoe (baritone), John Scott (organ) & Simon Standage (violin)
The Cambridge Singers & Members of the City of London Sinfonia, John Rutter (director)
The medium-scale 1893 version of Fauré's spiritual masterpiece finds a loving advocate in John Rutter, with excellent soloists and a lucid-toned choir. —
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Gramophone Awards, 1985, Winner - Choral
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British Music Collection - Gerald Finzi
RecommendedBryn Terfel, Philip Langridge, Donald Sweeney, Benjamin Luxon
Choir of Winchester Cathedral, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, David Hill, Richard Hickox, Edward Higginbottom, Neville Marriner
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Building a Library, December 2006, First Choice
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Britten: Peter Grimes
RecommendedPhilip Langridge (Peter Grimes), Janice Watson (Ellen Orford), Alan Opie (Balstrode), Ameral Gunson (Auntie), John Graham-Hall (Bob Boles), John Connell (Swallow), Anne Collins (Mrs Sedley), Roderick Williams (Ned Keene);
London Symphony Chorus, City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox
Any reading that so potently confirms the genius of this piece must have a distinguished place in the discography. In the first place there's Langridge's tense, sinewy, sensitive Grimes. Predictably... —
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Grammy Awards, 39th Awards (1996), Best Opera Recording
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Building a Library, April 2023, Recommended Recording
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Rubbra: Inscape, Op. 122, etc.
RecommendedStephen Varcoe (baritone)
Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chorus, City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox
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