Stephen Varcoe
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Bach, J S: Mass in B minor, BWV232
RecommendedLynne Dawson, Carol Hall, Nancy Argenta, Mary Nichols, Michael Chance, Ashley Stafford, Wynford Evans, Howard Milner, Andrew Murgatroyd, Lloyd Morgan, Stephen Varcoe
Monteverdi Choir & English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
Gardiner bases his forces on the famous memorandum which Bach handed to the Leipzig town council in 1730 outlining the vocal and instrumental requirements for performances of his church music.... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, 100 Greatest Recordings
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Fauré - Requiem
Recommendedand other sacred music
Caroline Ashton (soprano), Stephen Varcoe (baritone), John Scott (organ) & Simon Standage (violin)
The Cambridge Singers & Members of the City of London Sinfonia, John Rutter (director)
The medium-scale 1893 version of Fauré's spiritual masterpiece finds a loving advocate in John Rutter, with excellent soloists and a lucid-toned choir. — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 1985, Winner - Choral
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Haydn: Choral Music
Nancy Argenta (soprano), Catherine Denley (mezzo-soprano), Mark Padmore (tenor), Stephen Varcoe (baritone)
Collegium Musicum 90, Richard Hickox
Few other conductors on disc convey so happily the drama, symphonic power and spiritual exhilaration of these glorious works than Richard Hickox. He's fully alive to the ominous unease that... — More…
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Fauré - The Complete Songs - 4
Dans un parfum de roses
Jennifer Smith, Felicity Lott, Geraldine McGreevy (soprano), Jean-Paul Fouchécourt (tenor), Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Graham Johnson (piano)
…the final volume and jewel in the crown of Hyperion's completely Fauré songs. …all the singers involved in this glorious project, while not always in their first radiance and purity of voice,... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2005, Editor's Choice
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Handel: Solomon
RecommendedCarolyn Watkinson, Nancy Argenta & Barbara Hendricks
Monteverdi Choir & English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
With panache [Gardiner] shows how authentic-sized forces can convey Handelian glamour even with sharply focused textures and fast speeds...the overriding glory is the singing of the Monteverdi... — More…
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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An introduction to Percy Grainger
RecommendedStephen Varcoe (baritone) / David Archer (trumpet) / Andrew Watkinson (violin) / Jonathan Scott (harmonium) / Penelope Thwaites (piano)
Joyful Company of Singers / BBC Philharmonic / BBC Philharmonic / City of London Sinfonia / Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra, Richard Hickox,...
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Presto Recording of the Week, 31st January 2011
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Rubbra: Inscape, Op. 122, etc.
RecommendedStephen Varcoe (baritone)
Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chorus, City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Hummel: Mass in D minor & Salve regina
Susan Gritton, Rachel Nicholls, Pamela Helen Stephen, Mark Padmore & Stephen Varcoe
Collegium Musicum 90, Richard Hickox
…the Salve Regina… is an amiable continuation of the Viennese Classical tradition… Susan Gritton sings it with gusto, while she and the other soloists form a well-blended quartet in the Mass,... — More…
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Lalande: De Profundis & Grands Motets
The Choir of New College, Oxford, The King’s Consort, Les Pages et les Chantres de Versailles & La Grande Ecurie et la Chambre du Roy, Edward Higginbottom & Olivier Shneebeli
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Diapason d’Or, April 2018, Réédition
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Handel: Dixit Dominus & The ways of Zion do mourn
RecommendedFelicity Palmer (soprano), Margaret Marshall (soprano), Norma Burrowes (soprano), Charles Brett (countertenor), John Angelo Messana (countertenor), Richard Morton (tenor), Alastair Thompson (tenor), Martyn Hill (tenor), David Wilson-Johnson (bass), Stephen Varcoe (bass), Nicholas Kraemer (harpsichord),...
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Gramophone Awards, 1978, Winner - Choral
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