Choir of Trinity College Cambridge
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Trinity’s mixed young adults are effortless in the ease with which they respond to Layton’s exacting demands. The ground is hit running with a Magnificat whose iterations of the word ‘magnify’... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2019, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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David Briggs - Mass for Notre Dame
RecommendedDavid Briggs (organ)
Trinity College Choir Cambridge, Stephen Layton
Briggs [draws] sounds of roaring, surging eloquence and grandeur from the splendid instrument at Gloucester Cathedral. It helps, too, that the Trinity College Choir have such a 'live', untrammelled... —
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2010, Editor's Choice
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Record Review, December 2010, Critics' Disc of the Year
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2011, Award for Technical Excellence
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Howells: Requiem & other works
RecommendedSimon Bland (organ), Hannah Partridge (soprano), Jeremy Cole (organ), Gwilym Bowen (tenor), Laurence Williams (bass), Hannah Partridge (soprano) & Amy Lyddon-Towl (alto)
Trinity College Choir Cambridge, Stephen Layton
In a work intended to console, it's important that the actual sound the choir makes is warmly consoling. It certainly is in this new Trinity College recording of Howells's 1932 Requiem...It's... —
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2012, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2012, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2012, Winner - Choral
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One feature of his music is its wide range of historical reference…clothed in Park’s own musical language, which is contemporary in orientation but with resonant harmony which falls easily on... —
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2018, Choral & Song Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Finalist - Choral
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Stocked with female voices rather than boy trebles, the Trinity choir attack this repertoire with a brisk attack and mature aplomb under Stephen Layton’s sensitive direction. There is so much... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2017, Editor's Choice
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Handel: Chandos Anthems Nos 5a, 6a & 8
RecommendedSusan Gritton (soprano), Thomas Hobbs (tenor) & Iestyn Davies (countertenor)
Trinity College Choir Cambridge & Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Stephen Layton
It says much for Layton's skill that he has managed to retain their companionable intimacy despite super-sizing his own resources to a choir of more than 30 singers with orchestra to match...Layton... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th July 2013
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This recording surveys Cecilia McDowall’s substantial choral output, most of it written in the past two decades. She could scarcely have a better group to sing it than Stephen Layton’s Trinity... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2021
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Ēriks Ešenvalds: Northern Lights
& other choral works
with Rachel Ambrose Evans (soprano), Hannah Partridge (soprano), with Michael Craddock (bass), with Sally Pryce (harp), with Jamie Roberts (tenor), with Hannah King (soprano), Jonathan Pacey (bass), Zane Šmite (jaw harp), with Anna Cavaliero (mezzo-soprano), with Helen Charlston (mezzo-soprano),...
One of the chief pleasures of this CD is right at the beginning - the silvery duetting of Rachel Ambrose Evans and Hannah Partridge...Their fluid delivery of the little grace notes is delectable,... —
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Listening straight through this disc is a moving experience, for Layton has chosen a notable list of anthems. Highly recommended. —
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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. —
