Hyperion
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Miserere
A sequence of music for Lent, St Joseph, and the Annunciation
Peter Stevens (organ), William Gaunt (bass) & Peter Stevens (organ)
Westminster Cathedral Choir, Martin Baker
This is a disc for those who love the acoustic, the atmosphere and the musical traditions of the Roman Catholic Cathedral in London...This is a large choir, very good at big effects. The pacing... —
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Hamelin and Les Violons du Roy play that gypsy finale [of the D major Concerto] with irresistable verve...If there's an incongruity between the sound of Hamelin's modern piano and that of the... —
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American Choral Music
with DOMINIC MARTELLI boy soprano, RACHEL MASTERS harp, GARY KETTEL percussion, THOMAS TROTTER organ, with CATHERINE DENLEY mezzo soprano
Corydon Singers, Matthew Best
Half of this programme is devoted to unaccompanied choral music by Copland: In the Beginning, a striking 15-minute 'Creation' for mixed four-part chorus and solo mezzo (which is eloquently executed... —
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These splendid performances highlight the music's elemental aspects (not just evocations of forces of nature but the spirit of the country, long suppressed by occupiers), the Holst Singers'... —
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Songs by Reynaldo Hahn
This two-CD set is the most representative recording of Hahn's songs ever made. It includes the complete Etudes Latines and Rondels (both with choir) as well as many of his most familiar songs.
Dame Felicity Lott (soprano), Susan Bickley (mezzo soprano), Ian Bostridge (tenor), Stephen Varcoe (baritone)
The London Schubert Chorale, Stephen Layton
The two cycles, Douze rondels and Etudes latines, are linked by a common fascination with the past.
The Douze rondels were composed to poems in a medieval metre, which allowed Hahn to try his... — -
Clausen & Paulus: Calm on the listening ear of night
& other choral works
with Leilani Barratt (alto), with Lucy Wakeford (harp), Sanda Audere (soprano), Rachel Gough (violin), with Sanda Audere (soprano), with Sophie Edwards (soprano)
Royal Holloway Choir, Rupert Gough
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The most impressive work here is the Mass which is presented within a liturgical framework…in Versus est in luctum De Vivanco even approaches the sublimity of Victoria. However, these pieces... —
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Bach, J S: Mass in B minor, BWV232
Katherine Watson (soprano), Helen Charlston (mezzo-soprano), Iestyn Davies (countertenor), Gwilym Bowen (tenor), Neal Davies (bass)
Trinity College Choir Cambridge, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Stephen Layton
[Iestyn Davies] discharges a beautifully inflected ‘Qui sedes’, impeccably warmed and coloured by a discreet vibrato that instinctively knows its expressive place…Watson’s soaring soprano also... —
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The opening Allegretto ma non troppo of Sonata No. 28 in A, Op. 101 finds her in suitably reflective mood...It's in the Finale, however, where this performance takes off...Here, her long-term... —
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Park’s direction of the music is sensitive and alert variegated...Words and polyphonic strands are lucid, and while The Gesualdo Six can build up intense and resonant climaxes, their voices... —
Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2022, Choral & Song Choice
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