Bach Choir
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Britten: War Requiem, Op. 66
RecommendedGalina Vishnevskaya (soprano), Peter Pears (tenor), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) & Simon Preston (organ)
London Symphony Orchestra, Melos Ensemble, London Symphony Orchestra Chorus, Highgate School Choir & The Bach Choir, Benjamin Britten
Britten was writing personally for three muses who had all shared the wartime experience...His incandescent commitment to pacificism and horror at the failure of humanism blazes forth...As you... — More…
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Building a Library, November 2009, First Choice
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1960s
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Grammy Awards, 6th Awards (1963), Best Choral Performance
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Grammy Awards, 6th Awards (1963), Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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Grammy Awards, 6th Awards (1963), Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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Howells: Missa Sabrinensis & Michael Fanfare
RecommendedHelena Dix (soprano), Christine Rice (mezzo-soprano), Benjamin Hulett (tenor), Roderick Williams (baritone)
BBC Concert Orchestra, Bach Choir, David Hill
The combined forces certainly make a glorious noise, at its most impressive with the extensive Gloria section. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st May 2020
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2020
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2020
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Brian: Symphony No. 1 'Gothic'
RecommendedSusan Gritton (soprano), Christine Rice (mezzo-soprano), Peter Auty (tenor), Alastair Miles (bass) & David Goode (organ)
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, BBC Concert Orchestra, The Bach Choir, BBC National Chorus of Wales, Brighton Festival Chorus, CBSO Youth Chorus, Côr Caerdydd, Eltham...
the best [recording] yet. There's an ongoing buzz of Proms atmosphere that grips from start to finish; and the recorded sound succeeds phenomenally at somehow fitting Brian's hugest climaxes... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 28th November 2011
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2012, Editor's Choice
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Britten: War Requiem
Recommended2023 remastering
Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano), Peter Pears (tenor), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) & Simon Preston (organ), London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Melos Ensemble, Highgate School Choir & The Bach Choir, Benjamin Britten
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023, Shortlisted - Technical Achievement
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These fantasy films have built up a huge fanbase worldwide with their music drawn from the Western tradition. Hisaishi’s music reflects the wit, playfulness and charm in which Howl’s Moving... — More…
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Nominated - Film Music/Score of the Year
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Special offer. Howells: Stabat Mater
RecommendedBenjamin Hulett (tenor), Alison Hill (soprano)
The Bach Choir & Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, David Hill
Though there is much emotional turbulence in this music, Hill maintains a compelling life and forward momentum in Howells's immensely contrapuntal score...The Bach Choir has a palpable vibrancy... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2014, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Gramophone Awards, 2015, Finalist - Choral
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Special offer. Vaughan Williams - Sancta Civitas
Christina Pier (soprano) & Matthew Brook (baritone), Matthew Brook (baritone) & Andrew Staples (tenor)
The Bach Choir & Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Winchester Cathedral Choristers & Winchester College Quiristers, David Hill
David Hill directs both these works with a strong sense of their overall shape…Anyone coming to these works for the first time through these recordings is unlikely to be disappointed. — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Finalist - Choral
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Special offer. The People Shall Hear! (Great Handel Choruses)
Carolyn Sampson (soprano) & Robin Blaze (countertenor)
The Bach Choir & The English Concert, David Hill (direction)
The finely focused Bach Choir often sounds uncannily of almost chamber proportions, in 'The many rend the skies' (Alexander's Feast), and the wondering description of Christ's miracle in Handel's... — More…
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There's a symphonic sweep to the structure, inspired by the trajectory of the Passion narrative, and Bruffy is keenly aware of the necessity to pace the climaxes and the tempos. If Grechaninov's... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2007, Choral & Song Choice
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Special offer. Walton: A Queen's Fanfare and other works
Bach Choir, Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks
This is Walton in full ceremonial mode, including two of his best-known pieces, Crown Imperial, and Orb and Sceptre. David Willcocks brings out all the necessary pomp and splendour for these... — More…
