Delphian
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In the Beginning
Beth Mackay (mezzo-soprano) & Natasha Tyrwhitt-Drake (organ scholar)
Choir of Merton College, Oxford, Benjamin Nicholas & Peter Phillips (directors)
The 18 uninterrupted minutes of Copland's a cappella In the Beginning are a major test of any choir's stamina and concentration, and it's one the Mertonians pass with confidence...[Beth Mackay]... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2011, Editor's Choice
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Leighton & Martin: Masses for Double Choir
Mimi Doulton (soprano), Caitlin Goreing (alto), William Hester (tenor), Joseph Edwards (bass), James Orford (organ)
The Choir of King's College London, Joseph Fort
The choral forces of King’s College, London, are well focused, clean and expressive. Occasionally one or two of the solo voices show their youth, but the whole is delivered with such conviction,... — More…
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the jutting vocal fanfares of [Weir's] Ave Regina caelorum set a brightly celebratory atmosphere at the disc's beginning...The seven-part writing of Hannah Kendall's numinous Regina caeli is... — More…
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Organs of Edinburgh
Usher Hall – John Kitchen, St Cuthbert’s Parish Church – Thomas Laing-Reilly, Palmerston Place Church – Andrew Caskie, St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral- Duncan Ferguson, Freemasons’ Hall – Timothy Byram-Wigfield, St Andrew’s & St George’s West Parish Church – Michael Harris, Broughton St Mary’s...
This is a magnificent package, fully befitting its subject...The entire collection is a veritable treasure-trove, a feast for lovers of organ music...Just 2,000 copies of this will ever be published... — More…
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On this stonking disc, wait till you hear Kitchen unleashed on Elgar’s Pomp and
Circumstance March No 1. — More…CD
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Choral Evensong From Tewkesbury Abbey
Carleton Etherington (organ)
The Abbey School Choir, Tewkesbury, Benjamin Nicholas (director)
I've been consistently impressed by the work of Benjamin Nicholas and his Tewkesbury singers on the Delphian label ... the recorded sound is never short on detail thanks not least to the full-blooded... — More…
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The Three Kings
Music for Christmas from Tewkesbury Abbey
Carleton Etherington (organ)
Tewkesbury Abbey Schola Cantorum, Benjamin Nicholas
…the boys sing with sonorous and rounded tone. Rarely can the choir have sounded on better form than they do here — More…
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Orchestral Anthems: Elgar | Finzi | Dyson | Howells
Britten Sinfonia, Choir of Merton College Oxford, Benjamin Nicholas
Benjamin Nicholas maintains excellent control of his forces in a recording that is sonorously generous and forward in sound. The Merton choirs (including the soloists) are in fine voice and... — More…
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Adeste Fideles - Organ Music for Christmas
Thomas Laing-Reilly (the organ of St Cuthbert's Church, Edinburgh)
St Cuthbert's Change-Ringers
My other organ pick is a generous (77 min) Christmas organ special, Adeste Fideles, from Thomas Laing-Reilly on the vast tonal palette of the IV/68 Hope Jones/Walker organ of St Cuthbert's,... — More…
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Vaughan Williams… musical personality shines out all through this selection of sacred and secular a cappella music… Mike Brewer's excellent chamber choir Laudibus sings with beautifully blended... — More…
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