Download, Chilcott (composer)
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Special offer. Many are the wonders
Renaissance gems and their reflections Volume 2: Tallis
ORA, Suzi Digby
The Tallis is performed with a suitably gorgeous sound by ORA, even if this listener yearned for more sonic bite at times, but the choir soars in the disc’s new commissions. Alongside richly... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, June 2017
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2018, Winner - Ensemble (choral)
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A spooky, flickering account of Elgar’s Owls underlines the ability of Short and his outstandingly responsive singers to create riveting atmosphere, and communicate to the listener the import... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, Choral & Song Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Nominee - Choral Performance
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Bob Chilcott: Canticles of Light
Dagmara Kołodziej-Gorczyczyńska, Aleksandra Turalska, Sebastian Mach
National Forum Of Music Choir, Instrumentalists of the Wrocław Philharmonic, Agnieszka Franków-Żelazny
Chilcott’s Move him into the sun dates from 2018, and commemorates the centenary of war poet Wilfred Owen’s death. Tenor Sebastian Mach’s plangent solo in ‘Apologia pro Poemate meo’ is a highlight... — More…
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Composer of the Year
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Contemporary Music
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Special offer. Bob Chilcott: Christmas Oratorio
RecommendedNeal Davies (bass-baritone), Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), Nick Pritchard (tenor), The Choir of Merton College, Oxford, Benjamin Nicholas
Chilcott uses the Evangelist, and Olivia Jageurs’s accompanying nimble harp, to give us those moments of rapt stillness that mark that certain Christmas magic, and also to change the flow amidst... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st December 2023
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Special offer. News of Great Joy: Christmas From St John's College, Oxford
The Choir of St John's College, Oxford
David Bannister
The performances are, in the best sense, unpretentious – there’s no straining after forced jollity or attention-grabbing effects, and each individual voice is comfortably embedded within the... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2024, Christmas Choice
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Some might prefer Britten’s Ceremony of Carols to be a little rowdier, but this is otherwise a technically superb display of largely unfamiliar, and imaginatively chosen, festive music. One... — More…
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Building a Library, December 2024, Recommended Recording (A Ceremony of Carols)
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100 Years of Nine Lessons & Carols
RecommendedKing’s College Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury,Sir David Willcocks, Sir Philip Ledger
The opening track from 1958 sets the basic tone: the singing’s precise, sunny and rather dainty. Yet extra gusto soon arrives, and the modern carols Cleobury commissioned certainly stop tradition... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 30th November 2018
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The famed King’s Singers attention to pin-point pitching, slick ensemble, and deft balances between the voices are present in abundance. The two Beatles arrangements are particularly successful…The... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2017, Editor's Choice
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Grammy Awards, 61st Awards (2019), Nominee - Classical Compendium
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Favourite Carols from King's
Adam Banwell (treble)
The Choir of King's College Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury
The choir's glory remains its boy trebles, whose gleaming descants, vibrato-free production and tonal freshness are invariably the icing on the cake in these typically polished, debonair performances. — More…
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Christmas Presence
Recorded Live from King's College Chapel, Cambridge
The National Youth Chamber Choir of Great Britain, also featuring The National Youth Chamber Choir of Great Britain
The King's Singers