Hyperion
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Christmas Vespers at Westminster Cathedral
This disc presents an adorned version of the Office of Vespers as it might be heard on the eve of Christmas in Westminster Cathedral, a building steeped in art, music and spirituality.
Matthew Martin (organ)
The Choir of Westminster Cathedral, Martin Baker (Master of Music)
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Delius composed some 62 songs, of which Yvonne Kenny and her sensitive partner Piers Lane have chosen 25; they seem completely attuned to their world, all atmospheric yet achieved with the utmost... —
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Burgon: Choral music
David Bednall (organ) & Alan Thomas (trumpet)
The Choir of Wells Cathedral, Matthew Owens
This immensely appealing music is superbly sung by the Wells Cathedral Choir who prove to have excellent soloists. The vivid direction by Matthew Owens is greatly aided by David Bednall’s creative... —
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Lidarti - Violin Concertos
all cadenzas by Francesco D’Orazio
Francesco D’Orazio (violin)
Auser Musici
Francesco D'Orazio… dispatches his flights of skittering virtuosity wit grace and panache, and colours his tone expressively in the slow movements, using vibrato sparingly and tellingly. —
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Another valuable instalment in Howard's vast trek through Liszt's piano music —
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The Feast of the Ascension at Westminster Abbey
Robert Quinney (organ)
The Choir of Westminster Abbey, James O’Donnell
The boys might be singing Stanford's Caelos ascendit hodie, but they could just as easily be trilling ''Woohoo! It's Ascension Day!'' I love such musical joie de vivre, and not every choir is... —
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An elegant selection of motets and Mass sections receives utterly convincing and coolly, tastefully emotional performances in a masterclass of deceptively virtuosic singing. —
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Brahms: The Complete Songs Volume 5 (Christopher Maltman)
Christopher Maltman (baritone) & Graham Johnson (piano)
Maltman and the ever-sensitive Johnson...make a compelling, illuminating partnership. Maltman's mellow baritone,with its distinctively plangent, tenorish upper register, is always easy on the... —
