Choral, Christmas Carols, Gardner, John (composer)
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out of the bran tub comes my favourite Christmas choral disc of 2009 - Joy in the morning, another wide-ranging collection from Jeffrey Skidmore's excellent Birmingham-based choir, Ex Cathedra.... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 30th November 2009
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In Terra Pax
RecommendedA Christmas Anthology
Julia Doyle (soprano), Roderick Williams (baritone) & Mark Williams (organ and piano)
City of London Choir & Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Hilary Davan Wetton
The gem here is Finzi's In terra pax… From late in Finzi's life, it is suffused with English pastoral yearning, and baritone Roderick Williams sings beautifully in the outer sections. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 30th November 2009
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100 Years of Nine Lessons & Carols
RecommendedKing’s College Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury,Sir David Willcocks, Sir Philip Ledger
The opening track from 1958 sets the basic tone: the singing’s precise, sunny and rather dainty. Yet extra gusto soon arrives, and the modern carols Cleobury commissioned certainly stop tradition... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 30th November 2018
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This superior seasonal disc, chiefly of carols (some with organ played by Luke Bond), is satisfyingly divided into three parts: Advent, Christmas and Epiphany. Each starts with a plainchant,... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2019, Christmas Choice
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From the gorgeously shaped performance of Morten Lauridsen’s modern classic O magnum mysterium which opens the programme, to the urgent, ardent account of James MacMillan’s O radiant dawn which... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, Disc of the month
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The choir’s tonal purity and impeccable tuning are a pleasure, bringing plangency and repose to Philip Stopford’s ‘Lullay, my liking’, and a welling splendour to Philip Wilby’s ‘Moonless darkness... — More…
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Away in a Manger
A children's nativity
Susan Smith (piano), Felicity Souter (narrator), Margaret Howard (narrator), Martin Souter (narrator, piano), Victoria Davies (harp), Matthew Spring (cittern, lute), Sara Stowe (soprano)
Southend Boys Choir, Southend Girls Choir, Singscape, South Oxfordshire Youth Music and Drama Group, Christ...
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A Christmas Celebration
Simon Lindley (organ)
Huddersfield Choral Society, Sellers Engineering Band, Brian Kay, Phillip McCann
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Canticum Novum: Choral and Organ Works
David Halls (organ)
The Boy Choristers, Girl Choristers & The Lay Vicars of Salisbury Cathedral, Richard Seal
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this Advent showcase features conductors Andrew Nethsingha and George Herbert and, fascinatingly, three iterations of the choir, with and without female voices – and though the performances... — More…
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