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PALESTRINA
Third Book of Lamentations Westminster Cathedral Choir / Martin Baker [ Hyperion / CD - released 19/Apr/2007 ] Palestrina composed four sets of Lamentations, the third of which is recorded here. Throughout the centuries composers of sacred music have aspired to do justice to this most dramatic of texts and Palestrina’s settings rank amongst the finest. The... |
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WILLIAM BYRD
The Three Masses Westminster Cathedral Choir, Martin Baker [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/Sep/2014 ] BBC Music Magazine Award Nomination 2015 - Choral |
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BYRD / CROCE / GUERRERO / MALCOLM / MAWBY / PALESTRINA / TALLIS / PARSONS, R / DEVAN, D
Miserere Westminster Cathedral Choir, Martin Baker / Peter Stevens (organ) / William Gaunt (bass) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Feb/2013 ] This release from the admired Westminster Cathedral Choir demonstrates the splendours of the liturgy in the at-once solemn and joyful period of Lent. |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Christmas Vespers at Westminster Cathedral Westminster Cathedral Choir / Martin Baker / with Matthew Martin (organ) [ Hyperion / CD - released 26/Oct/2006 ] "Here Westminster Cathedral Choir and Martin Baker give us a rich evocation of the complete service of Vespers at the Cathedral as it is currently sung. If you close your eyes you can almost smell the incense." (MusicWeb Nov 2006) |
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VICTORIA
Ave Regina caelorum Westminster Cathedral Choir Robert Quinney (organ & continuo) Martin Baker (master of music) [ Hyperion / CD - released 24/Nov/2004 ] The Choir of Westminster Cathedral continues its survey of the music of Tomás Luis de Victoria with this new recording of the Missa Ave Regina caelorum, an opulent double-choir setting based on Victoria's two eponymous motets. |
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PETER MAXWELL DAVIES
Sacred Choral Music Westminster Cathedral Choir / Robert Quinney (with Robert Houssart), organ Martin Baker, director [ Hyperion / CD - released 7/Jun/2004 ] "A challenging Mass with magical effects crowns an outstanding disc from this choir" Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine July 2004 |
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GREGORIAN CHANT
Gregorian Chant: Easter Vigil Westminster Cathedral Choir / Stephen Cleobury [ ALTO / CD - released 1/Jun/2009 ] Hours of the day and moments of life |
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Westminster Cathedral Choir/O'
Des Prez: Missa Pange Lingua/V [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 25/Jul/2011 ] |
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BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Five Flower Songs & other choral works Elizabethan Singers / London Symphony Chorus / Westminster Cathedral Choir [ Decca SBS Australian Eloquence / CD - released 1/Jan/2013 ] "First CD releases of classic accounts of Britten part songs from Louis Halsey's Elizabethan Singers, plus a searing live recording of the Missa Brevis from 1960" (BBC Music) |