Vaughan Williams - Valiant for Truth
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Special offer. Vaughan Williams: Valiant for Truth, Symphony No. 5, The Pilgrim Pavement & other works
RecommendedCarys Lane (soprano)
London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox Singers, Richard Hickox
This is an exceptionally powerful yet deeply moving account of the Fifth. Aided by glowing, wide-ranging engineering, Hickox's is an urgently communicative reading. The first and third movements... —
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Building a Library, April 2003, First Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Building A Library, July 2025, Top Choice - Symphony No. 5
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Such Stuff As Dreams Are Made On
King's Singers, Victoria Meteyard (soprano), Grace Davidson (soprano)
This is the last recording The King’s Singers made before the departure of bass Jonathan Howard. It bears all the familiar hallmarks of a well-loved vocal team that has honed its style over... —
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2025, 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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Vaughan Williams: Hymns & Choral Music
Worcester Cathedral, Choir of Westminster Abbey, Christopher Robinson, Douglas Guest
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Special offer. Duruflé & Howells: Requiems
Kirsten Sollek (mezzo), Richard Lippold (baritone), Frederick Teardo (organ)
Myron Lutzke (cello)
Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys, Fifth Avenue, New York, John Scott
This release of two gems of the choral repertoire, sung with both passion and poise, makes an ideal memorial to conductor John Scott, who died in post in 2015. —
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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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Remembrance & Resurrection
Jeremy Filsell (organ)
Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, Ian Curror
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Special offer. Vaughan Williams: Mass in G minor
Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Oxford, Stephen Darlington
Their texts may be secular but the middle number, The cloud-capp'd towers, has more than a hint of spiritual feeling about it. The choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, deliver the goods... —
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Choirs of Cambridge: Queen's College Choir 'Evening Hymn'
English Choral Music
Choir of Queens' College Cambridge & Cambridge University Brass Group, John Gibbons & Philip Walsh
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Sensitive interpretations enhance the excellence of the singing throughout this testing programme, which displays a group of choir soloists who never falter. Tavener’s mysticism in music brings... —
