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Psalms from St Paul's - Vol 8
Psalms 93 to 104
Andrew Lucas (organ), Huw Williams (organ)
St Paul's Cathedral Choir, John Scott
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Britten - Purcell Realizations
Felicity Lott, Susan Gritton, Sarah Walker, James Bowman, John Mark Ainsley, Ian Bostridge, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Richard Jackson, Simon Keenlyside & Graham Johnson
Two irresistible discs—typically painstakingly produced and documented—and would deserve four stars if only they were there to give —
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Lauridsen - Nocturnes
and other choral music
Andrew Lumsden (organ), Morten Lauridsen (piano) & Morten Lauridsen (finger cymbals)
Polyphony & Britten Sinfonia, Stephen Layton
What more can one say of the singing other than that it is Polyphony? This ensemble—surely one of the best small choirs now before the public— invests everything it sings with insight, crisp... —
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Henry & William Lawes - Songs
Robin Blaze (countertenor), Elizabeth Kenny (lute, theorbo), Rebecca Outram (soprano), Robert Macdonald (bass), William Carter (lute, guitar, theorbo) & Frances Kelly (double harp)
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as this stylish account [of the Vierne] by the Goldner Quartet makes clear, it has a striking concision of expression, and the flitting of the Intermezzo is magical...Piers Lane joins the fun... —
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Chloe Hanslip and Igor Tchetuev certainly have the measure of these voluble and passionate yet always disciplined works, turning in performances of the first rank. The bubbling rhythmic liveliness... —
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Westminster Cathedral Choir is at its best in the large-scale drama of the Credo of the Mass…though they discover a truly moving spaciousness in O quam suavis est…overall, a convincing introduction... —
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His music doesn’t deserve its neglect, even if his settings of Meinem Kinde and Morgen won’t displace Strauss’s...[Bevan] is characterful in the song quoting Mendelssohn’s Wedding March ironically,... —
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[The Leonore Piano Trio] are fine interpreters…[they] evoke the rainbow colours and myriad shapes [of the Rimsky-Korsakov], moving quickly from dark and expansive (first movement) to slithers... —
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The Feast of St Peter at Westminster Abbey
Robert Quinney (organ), Julian Empett (bass), Raphael Taylor-Davies (treble), William Rowland (treble), Ben Turner (countertenor), Julian Stocker (tenor) & Robert Quinney (organ)
Westminster Abbey Choir, James O'Donnell
The musicians of Westminster Abbey are in top form. Crisp phrasing, firm control of line and lumionous colours create many fine moments, notably in the Palestrina and in Byrd's Gloria. Under... —
