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THOMAS TOMKINS / WILLIAM WALTON / HERBERT HOWELLS / JOHN STAINER / etc
Trinity Sunday at Westminster Abbey The Choir of Westminster Abbey / James O'Donnell [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Dec/2005 ] "This is a splendid and stimulating disc, which I've enjoyed very much. More please!" (MusicWeb Dec 2005) |
THE FEAST OF THE ASCENSION
The Feast of the Ascension at Westminster Abbey The Choir of Westminster Abbey / James OAEDonnell (with Robert Quinney, organ) [ Hyperion / CD - released 30/Apr/2008 ] "You quickly appreciate how the engineers have placed us relative to the choir for the best listening perspective, both for antiphonal passages and for full ensemble with organ." (ClassicsToday April 2008 10 artistic /8 sound) |
WILLIAM BYRD
Byrd: The Great Service The Choir of Westminster Abbey / Robert Quinney (organ) / James O'Donnell (conductor) [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/Dec/2005 ] 'The Choir of Westminster Abbey revels in the score's complexity, animating the dialogues within its ten-part texture with clarity and conviction … this disc shows us clearly why the Great Service ranks as Byrd's definitive Anglican music' - BBC... |
MAURICE DURUFLE
Durufle: Requiem / Quatre Motets / Messe cum Jubilo / etc Choir of Westminster Cathedral / James O'Donnell (conductor) with Aaron Webber (treble) and Simon Keenlyside (baritone) [ Hyperion / CD - released 25/May/2005 ] 'The Westminster Cathedral boys and men carry the lyricism and harmonic luxuriance to an ethereal plane. The choral singing is superb ... helping one to bathe in Duruflé's sumptuous ideas' (The Daily Telegraph) |
TOMAS LUIS de VICTORIA
Missa Dum complerentur Choir of Westminster Cathedral / James O'Donnell (director) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 20/Sep/2011 ] CLASSIC CD 100 GREATEST DISCS OF THE DECADE |
FRANCISCO GUERRERO
Guerrero: Missa Sancta et immaculata The Choir of Westminster Cathedral / James O'Donnell [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 20/Aug/2008 ] RECORD OF THE MONTH, CLASSIC FM MAGAZINE |
J S BACH
Christmas Oratorio, BWV248 Katherine Watson (soprano), Iestyn Davies (countertenor), James Gilchrist (tenor) & Matthew Brook (bass) Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment [ Hyperion / CD - released 11/Oct/2013 ] "The acoustic of the Trinity College Chapel has been used most sympathetically and the recording combines ambience and clarity in a most pleasing way. Nicholas Anderson's booklet essay is first rate." (Recording of the Month - MusicWeb November 2013) |
ROBIN HOLLOWAY
Holloway: The Lover's Well Clare Lloyd-Griffiths (soprano), Kate Symonds-Joy (mezzo-soprano), James Robinson (tenor) [ Delphian / CD - released 16/Nov/2018 ] Released on the day of his 75th birthday, six stellar performers associated with Gonville & Caius College Cambridge join together to showcase British composer Robin Holloway, in a celebration of the lyrical and dramatic qualities of his abundant... |
J.S. BACH
Bach: Johannes Passion BWV 245 Dallas Bach Society Chorus & Orchestra, James Richman conductor [ Onyx / 2 CD ] Bach's St Johannes Passion is the earliest surviving Passion, or Oratorio by J.S Bach and was first performed in 1724. This version consists of two sections and retains this structure in the versions and revisions that followed in 1725, 1730, 1736... |
SIR ARTHUR BLISS
Bliss: Mary of Magdala Dame Sarah Connolly (Mezzo-soprano), James Platt (Bass), BBC Symphony Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Andrew Davis [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Nov/2019 ] Bliss composed The Enchantress in 1951, the year of his sixtieth birthday, for Kathleen Ferrier. The text is a free adaptation of the Second Idyll of Theocritus, made by Henry Reed, and well suited to Bliss's love of classical Greek... |
CHRISTOPHER SIMPSON
Ayres & Graces Dan Tidhar (chamber organ / harpsichord) & James Akers (theorbo / baroque guitar) / Chelys Consort of Viols [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 29/Jun/2015 ] "Performed by the four viol players of Chelys and their keyboard and guitar playing colleagues, they sound wonderfully supple, propulsive and alive." (The Guardian) |
HEINZ HOLLIGER
Beiseit / Alb-Chehr David James : countertenor / Elmar Schmid : kclar,Teodoro Anzellotti : accordian [ ECM Records / CD - released 5/Dec/2000 ] Recorded March 1994 |
GAVIN BRYARS
Vita Nova David James (countertenor) / String Trio / The Hilliard Ensemble / Bryars [ ECM Records / CD - released 1/Jan/2001 ] Recorded September 1993 |
Peter MAXWELL DAVIES
Strathclyde Concertos 7 & 8 / A spell for green corn: The MacDonald dances Duncan McTier (double-bass), Ursula Leveaux (bassoon), James Clark (violin) / Scottish Chamber Orchestra/Sir Peter Maxwell Davies [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Feb/2014 ] "The demise of Collins Classics - on which label many of the composer's recordings were originally issued - removed from the catalogue a great many valuable discs. It is to the great credit of Naxos they have over the years so assiduously re-released |
J. S. BACH
Cantatas: Recreation for the Soul Elin Manahan Thomas, Daniel Taylor, James Gilchrist / Magdalena Consort, Peter Harvey [ Channel Classics SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/May/2015 ] "The four voices are fairly matched with each other, less so with their instrumental colleagues, and Harvey leads unfailingly elegant interpretations. At each turn, however, they yield to the textual and expressive detail of The Bach Players." Gramop |
HAROLD MELTZER
Meltzer: Brion / Sindbad / Exiles Elizabeth Farnum (soprano) / Gregory Hesselink (cello) / John Shirley-Quirk (narrator) / Cygnus Ensemble / The Peabody Trio / Sequitur / James Baker [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 6/Dec/2010 ] "[Brion] is a haunting, quirky and continually inventive chamber work for a small ensemble including guitar and mandolin. It receives an elegant, colorful performance on a splendid recording of four fascinating chamber and vocal works by Mr.... |
HANDEL
Messiah (complete oratorio) Elizabeth Watts / Catherine Wyn-Rogers / Mark Le Brocq / James Oldfield / Huddersfield Choral Society / Northern Sinfonia / Jane Glover [ Signum Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Jul/2011 ] "The Huddersfield Choral Society surely knows this music inside out. You can sense the sheer discipline that has gone into its preparation...Pick of the bunch...is the soprano Elizabeth Watts" (International Record Review) |
HANDEL
Joshua (Complete oratorio) Emma Kirkby / James Bowman / John Mark Ainsley / The Choir of New College, Oxford / The King's Consort / Robert King [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 13/Apr/2006 ] 'With first-rate casts and careful attention to Handel's original texts, King has blown the dust off some magnificent music' (BBC Record Review) |
CAMILE SAINT-SAENS
Saint-Saens: Cello Concerto No.1 - Sonatas Nos. 2 & 3 Emmanuelle Bertrand (cello) / Luzerner Sinfonieorchester, James Gaffigan. with Pascal Amoyel (piano) [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 1/Mar/2017 ] "[A] luscious and lyrical account of the concerto, with rich orchestral detail" Irish Times |
Etta James
At Last - The Best of Etta James (25 Tracks) [ Decca Music Group / CD - released 22/Mar/2012 ] Features 25 soul/jazz/blues classics, including the enduring hits "At Last", "Tell Mama", "I'd Rather Go Blind", "I Just Want to Make Love to You" and "Do Right Woman, Do Right Man". |
