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Some performances grip you from the outset, and this St John’s College recording of Vaughan Williams’s Mass in G minor is one of them. The Kyrie’s rapt inwardness is built on the outstandingly... —
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2018, Choral & Song Choice
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Special offer. Ralph Vaughan Williams: Earth's Wide Bounds
Joshua Ryan (organ), Rowan Williams, Leah Jackson (soprano), Charlie Morris, Simon Wall, Adrian Horsewood, Eloise Irving, Ciara Hendrick, Joseph Doody, James Arthurt, Helen Ashby, Clara Kanter, Jonny Beatty, Nicholas Ashby, Katy Hill, Emma Ashby, Tom Castle, Nathan Harrison, Jenni Harper, Rosemary...
[The Te Deum in G] is delivered with lusty relish by the Royal Hospital choir, particularly in the ringing antiphonal exchanges. O Clap Your Hands has similar ebullience, and the motet Valiant-for-Truth... —
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Ascendit Deus: Music for Ascensiontide & Pentecost
Peter Harrison, Matthew Jorysz (organ)
Choir of Clare College, Cambridge & The Dmitri Ensemble, Graham Ross
the famous setting of Ascendit Deus by Peter Philips spurts forward like a colt sprung freshly from a stable, the vocal decorations spinning vertiginously round like Monteverdi. It's a bracing... —
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Special offer. Ralph Vaughan Williams: Five Mystical Songs and Other British Choral Anthems
Martin Ford (organ), Julia Smith (soprano), Elizabeth Limb (soprano), Rachel Limb (soprano), Kate Jurka (soprano), Roderick Williams (baritone), Vasari Singers, Jeremy Backhouse
For many listeners the main attraction will be baritone Roderick Williams’s take on Vaughan Williams’s Five Mystical Songs, in a new version for organ accompaniment by Martin Ford. Williams... —
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Vaughan Williams: Dona nobis pacem & Toward the Unknown Region
RecommendedJudith Howarth (soprano & Sir Thomas Allen (baritone), John Mark Ainsley (tenor) & Matthew Souter (viola), Sir Thomas Allen (baritone)
Corydon Singers, Corydon Orchestra, Matthew Best
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Building a Library, July 2017, First Choice
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Special offer. A Portrait of Vaughan Williams
Michael Bochmann (violin), Margaret Campbell (flute), Colin Lilley (flute), Audrey Douglas (harp), Maurice Bourgue (oboe), Susan Lynn (violin), Pierre Joubert (violin), Helen Roberts (viola), Thomas Waddington (cello), Timothy Mirfin, Peter Gritton, Ian Barratt, David Le Monnier, Paul Martin, Jonathan...
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Celebration
Favourite Music for British Royal Family Occasions from Westminster Abbey
John New (tenor solo), Roderick Franks (trumpet solo), Martin Neary (organ)
Westminster Abbey Choir, London Brass, Martin Neary (director), Iain Simcock (organ)
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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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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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