Browse: Stephen Layton (conductor)
This page lists all recordings conducted by Stephen Layton.
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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]... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 18th February 2013
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2013, Editor's Choice
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Durufle: Requiem & Poulenc: Lenten Motets Harrison Cole (organ), The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge, Stephen Layton
A Gallic choral feast and strongly recommended. — More…
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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’... — More…
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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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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... — More…
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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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Poulenc - Gloria and Motets
RecommendedSusan Gritton
Polyphony, Britten Sinfonia, The Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge, Stephen Layton
Stephen Layton's tight control of his forces, both choral and orchestral, lends impeccable ensemble and heart-thumping excitement - has the opening tutti ever had such punch? Soprano Susan Gritton... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Finalist - Choral
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2008, Editor's Choice
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Building a Library, February 2020, Also Recommended
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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 of... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2016, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Finalist - Choral
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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... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2021
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Briggs: Hail, Gladdening Light & Other Works The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge, Stephen Layton
This album can be savoured on so many levels: as a masterclass in organ improvisation or for the radiance of Stephen Layton’s choristers and the rare opportunity to wallow in the marvel of an... — More…
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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... — More…
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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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Britten: A Ceremony of Carols & St Nicolas RecommendedSally Pryce (harp), Katherine Watson (soprano) & Zoë Brown (soprano), Allan Clayton (tenor)
Trinity College Choir Cambridge, City of London Sinfonia, Holst Singers & Temple Church Choristers, Stephen Layton
The clear-toned adult voices of the Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge, highlight qualities in the work often missed when performed by the more usual boys' choir...Perhaps Trinity sound too... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 3rd December 2012
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2012, Editor's Choice
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