BACH / HANDEL / TELEMANN / SCARLATTI
Let The Bright Seraphim Elin Manahan Thomas (soprano) / The Armonico Consort, Christopher Monks [ Signum Records / CD - released 1/Nov/2012 ] "The tone is immediately set by Crispian Steele-Perkins' trilling trumpet on Bach's "Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen", which also features quite thrilling counterpoints between him and soprano Elin Manahan Thomas" (The Independent) |
Monks
The Early Years 1964-1965 [ Light in the Attic / CD - released 18/May/2009 ] 'The Early Years' captures the Monks in nascent form, tackling many of the songs that would later appear on their 1966 masterpiece, 'Black Monk Time'. |
Tashi Lhunpo Monks
Time of the Skeleton Lords [ 30IPS / CD - released 6/Sep/2010 ] Recorded on location in Bylakuppe, southern India, and, according to Tibetan Buddhist traditions, follows the journey of the consciousness. |
The Buddhist Monks
Sakya Tashi Ling [ Universal Music / CD - released 8/Aug/2006 ] This is an album of peace and pure energy; a fusion of sacred mantras, mixed with the universal language of music. 'Sakya Tashi Ling' was recorded in the monastery during ten hours of consecutive chanting. |
MARTIN GRUBINGER / JOSEF BURCHARTZ / GGREGORIAN CHANT
Drums 'n' Chant Martin Grubinger (percussion) with Albrecht Mayer (Oboe), Josef Burchartz (Flugelhorn), Dieter Kolbeck (Digital Piano) / Benedictine Monks of the Abbe [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 21/Oct/2010 ] Grubinger represented Austria at the Eurovision Young Musicians 2000 in Bergen, Norway. In 2007 he was awarded the Leonard Bernstein Award of the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival. |
Monks of the Drepung Loseling Monastery
Sacred Tibetan Chants [ CD ] |
The Monks
Five Upstart Americans [ CD ] |
50 BEST CHILLOUT
50 Best Chillout Classics (3 Disc) Various artists incls Choir of King's College, Lesley Garrett, Emma Kirkby, Neville Marriner, Kiri te Kanawa, Monks of Silos, etc [ Warner Classics 50 Best / 3 CD - released 15/Feb/2013 ] This 3 CD set contains 50 tracks of classical chillout music from the catalogues of EMI Classics and Virgin Classics performed by some of the world's finest artists. |
TRADITIONAL / MORLEY / STANFORD
Greensleeves - Folk music of the British Isles Armonico Consort, Christopher Monks [ Signum / CD - released 25/May/2016 ] 'Greensleeves' is a celebration of music spanning the length and breadth of the British Isles, featuring mesmerising new arrangements by Geoffrey Webber and Toby Young of some of the most beautiful folk music ever written. The recording includes... |
BARBER / BUCKLEY / BYRD / HILDEGARD / TALLIS / TAVENER / etc
Naked Byrd Two (Incls Lotti - Crucifixus) Armonico Consort, Christopher Monks (director) [ Signum / CD - released 10/Feb/2011 ] This recording is compiled from the Armonico Consort's Naked Byrd programmes, featuring music by composers who wore their hearts on their sleeves, and whose art saw their emotions laid bare, in an atmospheric concert where magical musical moments are... |
ALESSANDRO STRIGGIO / THOMAS TALLIS / etc
Supersize Polyphany Armonico Consort, Christopher Monks (musical director), Choir of Gonville & Caius College Cambridge [ Signum / CD - released 22/May/2019 ] Supersize Polyphony is a celebration of large-scale choral works from the 16th century, performed here by the Armonico Consort and the Choir of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, under their musical directors Christopher Monks and Geoffrey... |
Benedictine Monks Of St James
Gregorian Chants [ 2 CD - released 19/Sep/2007 ] |
ANONYMOUS
Chant For Peace Cistercian Monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz / Timna Brauer / Elias Meiri Ensemble [ Deutsche Grammaphon / CD - released 22/May/2015 ] Introducing a unique cross-faith musical collaboration, "Chant For Peace" features the million-selling Monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz. This is their first major-label album since the 2008 global hit, "Chant - Music For Paradise". Now the Monks form... |
Dolce Risonanza/Monks Of Stift
Various: Vesperae [ Oehms Classics / CD - released 12/Dec/2011 ] |
J. S. BACH
Bach: The complete Solo Soprano Cantatas, Vol. 1 Gillian Keith (soprano) / Armonico Consort, Christopher Monks [ Signum / CD - released 1/Jul/2017 ] Soprano Gillian Keith joins acclaimed Baroque ensemble the Armonico Consort under Christopher Monks for the first release in a three disc series featuring the solo cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach. Bach's cantatas hold a special place among... |
TRADITIONAL
Sanctus: Music for Quiet Contemplation Marguerite Hutchinson (Northumbrian pipes) Jon Banks (harp) The Monks & Novices of Saint Frideswide [ Songs of Praise / Gift of Music / CD - released 20/Jun/2011 ] Haunting and evocative words and music that bring us echoes from the world of the monks of Lindisfarne, the Saxon monastery on Holy Island off Northumbria, with early English church music and Northumbrian pipes. |
The Monks
The Early Years 1964 - 1965 (Vinyl) [ Light in the Attic / 2 LP ] |
TRADITIONAL
Russian Orthodox Chant from Odessa Seminary Monks of Odessa Seminary, Mikhailo Davydov [ ALTO / CD - released 10/Oct/2010 ] Odessa Seminary Choir, Priest Mikhailo Davydov |
LATIN PLAINCHANT
Christmas Chant The Monks of Prinknash Abbey / The Nuns of Stanbrook Abbey [ Saydisc / CD - released 1/Nov/2008 ] The monks of Prinknash and the nuns of Stanbrook abbeys sing excerpts from the dawn and midnight masses and other traditional Latin plainsong for the season of Christmas. The large, warm acoustic of Stanbrook Abbey chapel is perfect to enable this... |
Monks of Science / Default
Inspirations and Escalations: Complete Recordings 1987-1992 [ Plastichead / Boss Tuneage / CD - released 26/Mar/2012 ] This 28 track compilation reissue compiles all the studio recordings of both Default and Monks of Science, and is digitally re-mastered. |
Monks Of Sherab Ling Monastr
Sacred Tibetian Chant [ Naxos World / CD - released 3/Feb/2003 ] |
The Monks
Black Monk Time [ Light in the Attic CD / CD - released 9/Nov/2009 ] "Monastic Madness - Hard Driving Garage Rock!"- Krist Novoselic, Nirvana. "This is a damned enjoyable slightly kinky '60s garage record."- Iggy Pop. |
The Monks
Black Monk Time (Double LP + Booklet) [ Light In The Attic / 2 LP - released 15/Jun/2009 ] Light In The Attic is ecstatic to present the Monks recorded legacy through two lavishly packaged and lovingly researched reissues (available on CD, LP, and digital download): The Early Years 1964-1965 as well as their landmark studio album Black... |
HENRY PURCELL
Purcell: Dido and Aeneas Rachael Lloyd, Elin Manahan Thomas, Robert Davies, Roderick Morris, Eloise Irving /. Armonico Consort, Christopher Monksristopher Monks [ Signum / CD - released 25/Jul/2015 ] "The Armonico Consort and its musical director, Christopher Monks, capture this abundance of inspiration in a performance full of life and variety...Rachael Lloyd's dignified Dido and Elin Manahan Thomas's bright Belinda are well contrasted." |
Tashi Lhunpo Monks
Dawn Till Dusk [ 30IPS / CD - released 14/Apr/2008 ] |
Tibetan Monks of Garden Shartse & Corciolli
The New Moon of East [ Le Maquis / CD - released 22/Dec/2008 ] |
TOBY YOUNG
Beowulf Timothy West, Elin Manahan Thomas / Armonico Consort, Christopher Monks [ Signum Classics / CD - released 18/Sep/2020 ] The story of Beowulf, although thousands of years old, is still loved by many all over the world. This recording of a new musical telling of the story, composed by Toby Young, blurs traditional sense of the genre of classical music by merging it with... |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handelian Pyrotechnics William Towers (countertenor) / Armonico Consort, Christopher Monks [ Signum / CD - released 2/Apr/2021 ] Armonico Consort return to Signum with a collection of Handel arias, performed by leading counter-tenor William Towers. A noted soloist in both opera and oratorio, the programme is taken from roles which Towers has sung across his career. |