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CD, Victoria (composer)
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Short finds a musical dramaturgy to match that of the text. The Requiem is written for six voices, but this choir of 20 never seems lumbering or unbalanced. They are perfectly tuned (listen... — More…
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Building a Library, May 2011, Featured
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2011, Choral & Song Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2012, Choral Award Winner
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Maestros Del Siglo De Oro
RecommendedMasters From The Golden Century
Jordi Savall
La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Hespèrion XX
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Building a Library, May 2011, Featured
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Special offer. Advent at Merton
Anna Steppler (organ)
Choir of Merton College, Oxford, Benjamin Nicholas & Peter Phillips
At the heart of this Advent service is a set of seven antiphons specially commissioned from seven composers for Merton College chapel. They work splendidly as a sequence...Peter Phillips and... — More…
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Special offer. De Ribera & Navarro: Masters of Spanish Renaissance
Amystis, ministriles de La Reyna, José Duce Chenoll
The singing tone is bright but not bland. The instrumental ensemble is particularly impressive, the cornetts played with plenty of character and the trombones richly voiced for Renaissance narrow-bore... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Early Music
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The 50-strong oratory choir is made up entirely of boys, and conductor Charles Cole draws singing of vernal freshness from them, with excellent ensemble and an interpretive awareness that puts... — More…
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Santiago a cappella
RecommendedRecording location: St Alban the Martyr, Holborn, London
Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner
A wonderful collection brilliantly sung. Only Mariam Matrem is a true pilgrim piece, but others (Lobo's Versa est) are a revelation. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 30th August 2010
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Victoria: Requiem 1605 'Officium defunctorum'
RecommendedChoir of Westminster Cathedral, David Hill (Master of the Music)
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Building a Library, October 2005, First Choice
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Christmas is often treated as a time of extroverted celebration, intimacy is the keynote of Noël, the Armonico Consort’s new seasonal collection. That’s partly because the choir has just eleven... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Issue 2023, Christmas Choice
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Christmas Vespers at Westminster Cathedral
This disc presents an adorned version of the Office of Vespers as it might be heard on the eve of Christmas in Westminster Cathedral, a building steeped in art, music and spirituality.
Matthew Martin (organ)
The Choir of Westminster Cathedral, Martin Baker (Master of Music)
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Victoria - Missa Gaudeamus
Recommendeda liturgical sequence, with organ works by Girolamo Frescobaldi
Thomas Wilson (organ)
Westminster Cathedral Lay Clerks, Matthew Martin
An elaborate musical mosaic, the appeal of which owes much to the atmospheric depths of the Westminster acoustic, beautifully captured on this recording — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 6th July 2009
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