CD, Weelkes (composer)
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Special offer. Gentleman Extraordinary
Anthems, Services, and Instrumental Music by Thomas Weelkes
Resurgam, The English Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble, Mark Duley
Resurgam demonstrate the power and confidence of their ensemble, with bold lower voices and an attractive treble sheen from the sopranos. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2024, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2024 Shortlist, Shortlisted - Early Music
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Special offer. English Royal Funeral Music
RecommendedLes Trompettes des Plaisirs, Lingua Franca & Vox Luminis, Lionel Meunier
one might call it a classically 'English' choral sound - but any suspicions of coolness are easily dispelled by the commitment shown to the meaning of both music and text...Once again, Vox Luminis... — More…
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Building a Library, April 2015, First Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2013, Editor's Choice
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From Weelkes we have the immensely subtle Hark all ye lovely saints, set to springy, vertiginous changes of metre beautifully negotiated by the singers, and his In nomine a 4, performed in a... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, February 2023, Choral & Song Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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Poetry in Music
Ruth Provost, Kirsty Hopkins, David Clegg, Jeremy Budd, Ben Davies, Julie Cooper, Edward McMullan, Mark Dobell
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers
It is clear that this is something really special. That specialness comes not just from the fact that The Sixteen elevate everything they perform through their opulent musicality and supreme... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2015, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Shortlisted - Choral
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This sole recording of secular music by the Tallis Scholars makes one wish for more. Byrd's 'Though Amaryllis's is very nimble, the graded dynamics in Bennet's 'All Creatures' superb. — More…
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The Agnus Dei by Tarik O’Regan, an ethereal and exquisitely worked setting, is worthy to stand alongside O taste and see, the communion anthem composed by Vaughan Williams for the 1953 coronation. — More…
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023, Shortlisted - Technical Achievement
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2023, Technical Achievement
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An English Country Christmas
Traditional carols and seasonal folksongs
Sara Stowe (soprano), Martin Souter (piano), Matthew Spring (lute)
The Choir of Magdalen College (Oxford), The Harlow Chorus, The Choir of Worcester College (Oxford), The Cherwell Singers, The Choir of Queens College (Cambridge), Singscape, English Renaissance, The Oxford Girls' Choir
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Beautifully shaped and balanced with superb smooth blend, this elegant male voice ensemble lives up to the title of the programme — More…
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Special offer. Evensong Live 2019: Anthems and Canticles
Choir of King's College Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury
King’s is King’s, and its steadfast traditions – of sound production as much as procedure (as in the wholly counterintuitive pointing of its psalter) – is its wonder. Finzi’s Lo, the full final... — More…
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