Bax - I sing of a maiden that is makeless
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Finzi, Bax & Ireland: Choral Music
Daniel Cook (organ), Sebastian Braw-Smith (treble), Julian Stocker (tenor), Julian Empett (bass), Jeremy Suppey (treble), Simon Ponsford (countertenor), Daniel Livermore (treble), Jonathan Brown (bass)
Westminster Abbey Choir, James O'Donnell
The choir’s diffuse tone – breathier in the upper voices than rivals at New College or even King’s Cambridge – is very effective —
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2017, Choral & Song Choice
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Vaughan Williams, Finzi & Holst
RecommendedCecil Aronowitz (viola), Ian Partridge (tenor), John Shirley-Quirk (baritone), John Westbrook (speaker), John Eaton (treble), Nigel Perrin (alto), Robin Doveton (tenor), David van Asch (bass), Wilfred Brown (tenor), Philip Langridge (tenor), Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), Philip Fowke (piano),...
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Building a Library, June 2018, Also Recommended
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Mater Ora Filium: Choral Music by Bax and Villette
Christopher Hughes, Julie Cooper (soprano), The Rodolfus Choir, Ralph Allwood
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Bax & Finzi: Choral Music
Richard Farnes (organ), John Bowen (tenor), Roland Robertson (bass), Bruce Blyth (countertenor), Graham Greene (countertenor), Choir of King's College Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury
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Sumptuous performances, and perfectly judged sound. —
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The Gluepot Connection
Choral Music by Ireland, Rawsthorne, Warlock, Bax, Alan Bush, Lutyens, Walton & EJ Moeran
Londinium Chamber Choir, Andrew Griffiths
Tenuous links to alcohol apart, there is some fine music-making on this disc. A rapt performance of Peter Warlock’s The Full Heart opens it, the discomfiting harmonies and eerie suspensions... — -
The Carise Singers have a bright, youthful sound- the Bax settings are more complex musically and the Carise singers respond accordingly. —
