Delphian
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Three works for chorus with an instrument or two...Weir’s title piece, with clarinet (Hannah Lawrance) on top of percussion and keyboard, evokes five colours in four movements — most notably... —
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Benjamin Baker’s violin is sympathetically balanced forwards of Daniel Lebhardt’s piano, never so much as to exaggerate one or obscure the other...Baker has a nice line in portamento for the... —
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Lutoslawski & Penderecki: Complete music for violin and piano
Foyle-Štšura Duo: Michael Foyle (violin) & Maksim Štšura (piano)
Spanning almost half a century, this programme is illuminating in its contrasts and for what it reveals about these two very different figures…Foyle and Štšura handle it with commanding aplomb…[Penderecki’s]... —
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The reconstructed instrument technology is impressive, from the growling trombone-like lituus and the eloquent twin-piped aulos, to the water-driven hydraulis organ...The actual music is so... —
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A beautifully atmospheric recording of the Advent service. —
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Deutsche Motette
Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge & Choir of King’s College London, David Trendell & Geoffrey Webber
This performance of Strauss's Deutsche Motette has the right quality of rapture...Credit to the conductor David Trendell for eliciting from his combined college choirs, whose youthful freshness... —
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O Virgo Benedicta
Music of Marian Devotion from Spain’s Century of Gold
The Marian Consort: Gwendolen Martin, Emma Walshe (sopranos), Nicholas Scott (tenor), Steffan Jones (baritone), Christopher Borrett (bass) & Rory McCleery (countertenor/director)
The Oxford-based mixed choir makes a bold, bright sound with strong individual voices. —
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The surprise is how charming his music can be, when it is not weighed down by his cleverness. He can slyly wrong-foot us with waltzes, or beguile with a serene homage...Bach is a constant presence,... —
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Edward Nesbit: Sacred Choral Music
Ruby Hughes (soprano), Joshua Simões the Choir of King’s College, London, Joseph Fort
Nesbit’s liner notes describe the traces of his ‘dual musical heritage’, inspired by Anglican choral music from the Tudor era and contemporary music. This album shows this juxtaposition of inf... —
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Do not be fooled by the music’s seeming inactivity, for the insubstantiality [of Finnis's Devotions] is a mirage, the inner workings, derived from the ‘Heiliger Dankegesang’ movement of Beethoven’s... —
