Stephen Layton
-
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’... —
Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, September 2019, Editor's Choice
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
-
-
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... —
Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, August 2010, Editor's Choice
-
Record Review, December 2010, Critics' Disc of the Year
-
BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2011, Award for Technical Excellence
-
-
Bach, J S: St John Passion, BWV245
RecommendedIan Bostridge (Evangelist), Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Nicholas Mulroy (tenor), Neal Davies (bass), Iestyn Davies (countertenor) & Roderick Williams (baritone)
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment & Polyphony, Stephen Layton
this new recording's credentials border on the unassailable...Layton's pacing is compelling - there's no mistaking the gambling fever as the soldiers cast lots for Christ's garment...[Neal Davies]... —
Awards:
-
Presto Recording of the Week, 18th February 2013
-
Gramophone Magazine, May 2013, Editor's Choice
-
Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
-
-
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... —
Awards:
-
BBC Music Magazine, June 2012, Choral & Song Choice
-
Gramophone Magazine, June 2012, Editor's Choice
-
Gramophone Awards, 2012, Winner - Choral
-
-
American Polyphony
RecommendedDavid Allsopp (countertenor), Christopher Lowrey (countertenor) & Robert Millett (percussion)
Polyphony, Stephen Layton
This is the finest performance of Barber's Agnus Dei I've heard by any choir, live or on record…a wonderful recital, not to be missed. —
Awards:
-
Presto Recording of the Week, 6th July 2015
-
BBC Music Magazine, August 2015, Disc of the month
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
-
-
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... —
Awards:
-
BBC Music Magazine, November 2018, Choral & Song Choice
-
BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2019, Finalist - Choral
-
-
Durufle: Requiem & Poulenc: Lenten Motets
Harrison Cole (organ), The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge, Stephen Layton
The choir is magnificent, emerging through former Trinity organ scholar Harrison Cole’s adroitly chosen organ textures in the Introit, yet producing searing radiance in the climax of the Sanctus.... —
Awards:
-
International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Choral
-
-
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... —
Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, July 2017, Editor's Choice
-
-
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... —
Awards:
-
Presto Recording of the Week, 8th July 2013
-
-
Howells: Collegium Regale 'King's College Cambridge Service'
& other choral works
Owain Park (organ)
Trinity College Choir Cambridge, Stephen Layton
The Evening Service boasts some beautifully controlled singing from the sopranos in particular, their deft tapering of quiet dynamics in the Magnificat heightening the introspective quality... —
Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, April 2016, Editor's Choice
-
Gramophone Awards, 2016, Finalist - Choral
-
