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Wesley, S S
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Special offer. An English Coronation, 1902-1953
RecommendedEdward VII, George V, George VI, Elizabeth II
Gabrieli, Paul McCreesh
Some may find the extensive spoken liturgy excessive but such is Simon Russell Beale’s compelling delivery that the sheer beauty of the words offers a musical diversion of a different kind.... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2019, Editor's Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2019
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Diapason d’Or, September 2019, Nouveauté
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2019
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2019, Nominated - Vocal
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Choral
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Critics' Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Finalist - Choral
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Listening straight through this disc is a moving experience, for Layton has chosen a notable list of anthems. Highly recommended. — More…
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Samuel Wesley: Sacred Choral Music
The Choir of Holy Sepulchre, The National Musicians' Church, Toby Ward
Conductor Toby Ward captures a sense of freshness and drama in the big-boned verse anthems that lie at the heart of this recording, underlining the quasi-operatic qualities that so discombobulated... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2024
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Special offer. The Wesleys and Their Contemporaries
Jennifer Bate (organ of St. James’s Church, Bermondsey and Brangwyn Hall, Swansea)
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Special offer. Bingham - Choral Music
Thomas Trotter (organ)
BBC Symphony Chorus & Fine Arts Brass, Stephen Jackson
Judith Bingham is a composer with a special gift for vocal setting and a wealth of experience in what can be sung: for 13 years she was a permanent member of the BBC Symphony Chorus and BBC... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2007, Editor's Choice
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Samuel Sebastian Wesley: Anthems
James McVinnie (organ)
Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, Christopher Robinson
There are few lovelier anthems than Wesley's Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace; Cast me notaway is worthy to stand with Purcell's Hear my prayer; and among his larger choral compositions The... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Finalist - Choral
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The English Hymn - 5
Lead, kindly Light - Hymns of Faith and Assurance
Wells Cathedral Choir, Rubert Gough (organ), Malcolm Archer
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Ralph Vaughan Williams: Five Mystical Songs and Other British Choral Anthems
Vasari Singers, Roderick Williams, Julia Smith, Elizabeth Limb, Rachel Limb, Kate Jurka, Martin Ford, Jeremy Backhouse
For many listeners the main attraction will be baritone Roderick Williams’s take on Vaughan Williams’s Five Mystical Songs, in a new version for organ accompaniment by Martin Ford. Williams... — More…
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Epiphany at St Paul's
Huw Williams (organ) (Roy Rashbrook tenor, Timothy Jones baritone, Robert Rice bass) (Jonathan Arnold baritone) (Christopher Royall alto, Roy Rashbrook tenor, Jon English tenor, Julian Clarkson bass) (Robert Rice baritone) (Flann Corcoran treble, Mervyn Collins tenor)
St Paul's Cathedral Choir,...
