Whitacre - Lux aurumque
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Eric Whitacre: Light & Gold
RecommendedGrace Davidson (soprano), Stephen Kennedy (baritone), Hila Plitmann (spoken Hebrew) & Christopher Glynn (piano)
The Eric Whitacre Singers, Laudibus, The King’s Singers & Pavão Quartet, Eric Whitacre
'The Stolen Child'...is the most immediately impressive. Here Whitacre deftly weaves the entreating faerie voices of Yeats's poem with that of the 'human child'...The burgeoning crescendo which... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2010, Disc of the Month
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Grammy Awards, 54th Awards (2011), Best Choral Performance
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Carol of the Bells
Alexandra Kidgell, Edward McMullan, Mark Dobell, Robert Macdonald, Ben Davies, Rob Macdonald, Katy Hill, Tim Jones, Charlotte Mobbs, George Pooley
The Sixteen, Harry Christophers
The Sixteen have been around so long (40 years and counting) that it is easy to take them for granted. This newly recorded Christmas disc, however, acts as a sharp reminder of the choir’s abiding... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2021, Christmas Choice
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Special offer. A Pembroke Christmas
Emma Johnson (clarinet), Wallis Power
The Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge, The Pembroke College Girls' Choir, Anna Lapwood
Highlights include a numinous take on MacMillan’s O Radiant Dawn, Ailsa McTernan’s soaring solo in Patricia Van Ness’s ‘Archangelus’ and a performance of Kerensa Briggs’s A Tender Shoot, which... — More…
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there is a fair degree of sentimentality and sugariness – and why not? This is a Christmas album after all, and Americans are not known for their seasonal restraint. Paul Gameson always keeps... — More…
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[Joby Burgess] He prepared these four arrangements with sensitivity, and in each case remained true to the spirit of Whitacre’s original work. This was an unusual idea, and Burgess carried it... — More…
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American Choral Classics
Barbara Naylor (mezzo-soprano), Peter Jaekel (piano), Alban Voices, Robin White
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Tidings
Christmas with the Choir of Wellington Cathedral of St. Paul
The Choir of Wellington Cathedral (chorus), Michael Fulcher (chorus master), Richard Apperley (organ)
This smartly assembled program of choral music reflecting the advent and incarnation of Christ includes a mix of 17 cherished chestnuts and less familiar yet appealing text settings by 20th-... — More…
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Cloudburst is the central piece here, a dazzling kaleidoscope of busy clamour, arcing lyricism, solo and spoken passages, sighing, handbells, wind chimes, inter alia. Whitacre was only 22 when... — More…
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This is a class act and a good entry point. Signum has plenty more where this comes from. — More…
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