Jeremy Backhouse
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Ralph Vaughan Williams: Five Mystical Songs and Other British Choral Anthems
Martin Ford (organ), Julia Smith (soprano), Elizabeth Limb (soprano), Rachel Limb (soprano), Kate Jurka (soprano), Roderick Williams (baritone), Vasari Singers, 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... —
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The Music Never Ends
Vasari Singers, Gareth Giles (piano), Gareth Huw Davies (double bass), Jeremy Backhouse
The tuning is precise, no matter how involved the harmonic progressions, and choir sets out to characterise the contrasting songs, from the languid richness of Ward Swingle’s Romance, with... —
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The Very Best of Arvo Part
Martin Roscoe (piano), Tasmin Little (violin), David Goode (organ), Robert Aldwinckle (harpsichord), Richard Studt (violin), Chilingirian Quartet (string quartet), Christopher Bowers-Broadbent (organ), Ene Salumäe (percussion), Mati Turi (tenor), Tiit Kogermann (tenor), Aarne Talvik (bass), Evelin...
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Extremely accomplished singing moulded into a coherent and eloquent whole. —
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Building a Library, January 2006, First Choice
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Signum Anniversary Series: Choral Collection
The King's Singers, Tenebrae, VOCES8, The Swingle Singers & Rodolfus Choir
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La France au Calvaire is an astonishing work, setting, to quote the booklet note, 'a curious libretto' by René Herval who, like Dupré, was a native of Rouen. Appalled by the devastation wrought... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2002, Editor's Choice
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Music on Christmas Morning
Jocelyn Somerville, Roderick Williams (baritone), Martin Ford, Elizabeth Limb, Vasari Singers, Jeremy Backhouse
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Duruflé - Requiem
Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), Christopher Maltman (baritone), Jeremy Filsell (organ) & Robert Cohen (cello)
Vasari Singers, Jeremy Backhouse
Inspired organ-playing makes this a superior recording of Duruflé's Requiem. …following a monumentally impressive account of Jean-Jacques Grunenwald's Tu es Petrus, we have his extended setting... —
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Rathbone's energetically bouncing arrangement of Gabriel's Message is a good place to sample the Vasari Singers' warmly engaged performances —
