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Orchestral Anthems: Elgar | Finzi | Dyson | Howells
Britten Sinfonia, Choir of Merton College Oxford, Benjamin Nicholas
Benjamin Nicholas maintains excellent control of his forces in a recording that is sonorously generous and forward in sound. The Merton choirs (including the soloists) are in fine voice and... —
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Special offer. Purcell - Full Anthems & Organ Music
Music on the Death of Queen Mary
Andrew Carwood (tenor), Laurence Cummings (organ), Michael McCarthy (bass)
Oxford Camerata, Jeremy Summerly
I would say that any disc which offered such a 24-carat Purcell selection in performances even half as good as these would be hard to resist. —
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Henry Purcell: Choral Works
RecommendedChoir of Christ Church
Cathedral, Oxford and The English Concert, Simon Preston
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Building A Library, October 2025, Top Choice
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English Choral Premieres & Rarities
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra & Chorus, Douglas Bostock
That such musical riches should have waited until 2002 to be recorded is truly baffling, but the performances prove fully worthy of the occasion, with soprano Elizabeth Donovan making an unforgettable... —
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O praise the Lord
Restoration Music from Westminster Abbey
Robert Quinney (organ), Julian Stocker (tenor) & Robert Macdonald (bass)
Westminster Abbey Choir, James O'Donnell
Throughout every work O'Donnell's direction is alive to the sophisticated vocal layering, and ever attentive to the meaning of the words - an innate musicality echoed in Robert Quinney's 'voluntary... —
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Baroque Vocal Masterpieces
Emma Kirkby (soprano) & Robert Jones (organ), with Richard Cunningham (alto), Martin Pickering (tenor), David Beaven (bass)
St Alban's Chamber Choir, Richard Stangroom
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Henry Purcell - Sacred Music
Canterbury Cathedral Girls' Choir, Henry Purcell & David Newsholme
David Newsholme
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Thomas Fields (viola da gamba), Kerry Heimann (organ), Francis Williams (tenor), Thomas Lynch (baritone), Daniel Boring (theorbo), Loretta O'Sullivan (cello), Tim Brent (organ), Katie Lipow (soprano)
Westminster Kantorei, Amanda Quist
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The English Orpheus - Choral & Instrumental Music by Henry Purcell
Orpheus Britannicus & Chapel Choir of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, Andrew Arthur
Making the most of Purcell’s deeply elegant music requires a particular sensitivity to linear shape, lyrical articulation and clarity of texture, not least in order to draw upon the pungency... —
