CD, Gruber, F (composer)
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A new piece by Lapwood herself, Arise, Shine, opens the album, showcasing the Pembroke Chapel Choir's easeful unanimity of diction, and its warmly blended tonal profile. —
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The Cuban Nutcracker Suite stands comparison with Duke Ellington’s iconic 1960 reworking of the piece, with a sassily swung Overture showcasing Willis’s fabulous lower register and the Trepak... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 28th November 2025
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Special offer. Yulefest!
Christmas music from Trinity College Cambridge
Trinity College Choir Cambridge, Stephen Layton
All the popular selections…sound notably relaxed and idiomatic, the choir's stylistic versatility confidently demonstrated. —
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Andrea Bocelli - Sacred Arias
Andrea Bocelli
Orchestra dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Myung-Whun Chung
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This album stems from a lockdown project designed to lif t the spirits, and boy does it still do so. The choir is warm and, as ever, pitch perfect, but it’s Taylor Scott Davis’s sparkling ,... —
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Special offer. Joseph Calleja - Ave Maria
Joseph Calleja (tenor), Malta Philharmonic Orchestra, Sergey Smbatyan
The Maltese tenor is on top form, his voice rich and fluid, with lovely, pure Latin colours and keen textual enunciation, the result achieving those hard-to-define qualities of conviction and... —
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A Pembroke Christmas
Emma Johnson (clarinet), Wallis Power, The Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge, The Pembroke College Girls' Choir, Anna Lapwood
Highlights include a numinous take on MacMillan’s O Radiant Dawn, Ailsa McTernan’s soaring solo in Patricia Van Ness’s ‘Archangelus’ and a performance of Kerensa Briggs’s A Tender Shoot, which... —
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a genuinely touching, warm-hearted and classy example of the genre – and more imaginative in the choice of repertoire than most. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th December 2023
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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... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Issue 2023, Christmas Choice
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