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GIOVANNI FRANCESCO ANERIO / FELICE ANERIO
Requiem / Motets Westminster Cathedral Choir / James O'Donnell [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 15/Apr/2006 ] "This is a fascinating disc of music in fine performances. Music by the Anerio brothers is still pretty rare on disc. In performances as committed and as passionate as their works make pretty riveting listening" (MusicWeb May 2006) |
JAMES MacMILLAN
Tenebrae Responsories & other works Westminster Cathedral Choir, London Brass, Martin Baker (conductor) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Jun/2013 ] Westminster Cathedral Choir returns to acclaimed Scottish composer James MacMillan, whose powerful, passionate and luminous music has made him one of the best-loved choral composers of today. Included on this recording is a dramatic setting of the... |
CHRISTOPHER TYE
Tye: Missa Euge bone / Peccavimus / Western Wynde Mass Choir of Westminster Cathedral, James O'Donnell [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Apr/2012 ] 'Immediately one is introduced to Tye's extraordinary sound-world of unusual cadences and rigorous alternation of high and low voices to achieve impressive effects. All of these are carefully allowed to speak for themeselves thanks to the judicious... |
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 |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
From the Vaults of Westminster Cathedral Choir of Westminster Cathedral / Martin Baker (director) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Nov/2009 ] "Throughout, the choral singing under Martin Baker's direction glows resplendently, while still retaining its celebrated 'continental' edge." (Gramophone) |
JAMES MACMILLAN
Mass and other sacred music Westminster Cathedral Choir / Martin Baker (with Andrew Reid organ) [ Hyperion / CD - released 15/May/2001 ] "Powerful liturgical music from one of today's most admired composers, performed with passionate intensity by the Westminster choristers" (Gramophone) |
LASSUS
Missa Bell' Amfitrit' altera Westminster Cathedral Choir / His Majesty's Sagbutts & Cornetts / James O'Donnell, conductor [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 4/Oct/2005 ] 'Elegant and imaginative... the wind-band pieces are especially gorgeous. [The Mass] receives an opulent interpretation that stands out in a rather crowded field of challengers. Highly recommended' - Gramophone |
BRAHMS / RHEINBERGER
Masses & Motets Westminster Cathedral Choir / Martin Baker [ Hyperion / CD - released 14/Jul/2006 ] Brahms's Missa canonica is something of a rarity: composed around 1856, the work lay unperformed until 1983 despite being regarded highly enough by its composer for him to have re-used some of its material in the popular motet Warum ist das Licht... |
