Wood, C
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An English Coronation, 1902-1953
RecommendedEdward VII, George V, George VI, Elizabeth II
Gabrieli, Paul McCreesh
Some may find the extensive spoken liturgy excessive but such is Simon Russell Beale’s compelling delivery that the sheer beauty of the words offers a musical diversion of a different kind.... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2019, Editor's Choice
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2019
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Diapason d’Or, September 2019, Nouveauté
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2019
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2019
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Limelight Magazine Recordings of the Year, 2019, Nominated - Vocal
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Choral
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2019, Critics' Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2020, Finalist - Choral
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Peace I Leave With You - Music for the Evening Hour Sebastian Hill (tenor), Milo Hodgkiss (tenor), Peter Brooks (bass-baritone), Alexander Pott, Benjamin Watkins (bass-baritone), Francis Brown (bass-baritone), Henry Isaacs, Maurice Cole (tenor)
Choir of Magdalen College Oxford, Mark Williams
Among the contemporary offerings, the always responsive, well-integrated choral forces bring a serene, reverential simplicity to John Tavener’s setting of The Lord’s Prayer and in Roxanna Panufnik's... — More…
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I can confirm that Williams is on splendid form, responding with impeccable technique, burnished tone and perceptive observation throughout. — More…
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English Hymn Anthems
Alison Balsom (trumpet)
The Choir Of King’s College, Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury
The King's performance [of the Parry] is predictably idiomatic, if a touch carefully preened and respectful...[Ireland's] is a more explicitly dramatic setting, and the singers seem to relish... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2015, Editor's Choice
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Hubert Parry's glorious Coronation anthem 'I was glad' unfolds in waves of increasing elation and broad, sweeping lyricism. It's a tremendous performance by The Sixteen, and it's an effective... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Finalist - Choral
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From the vaults of Westminster Cathedral
RecommendedA procession of chant & polyphony from Advent to Christmas & the Epiphany and Presentation of our Lord
Matthew Martin (organ accompaniment), & Martin Baker (organ improvisations)
The Choir of Westminster Cathedral, Martin Baker
Epiphany brings Monteverdi's Messa a 4 da cappella, whose polyphonic complexities elicit a confidently assertive response from the choir, with fine internal balances between the voice sections. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 30th November 2009
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2014, Editor's Choice
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Robert de Pearsall and Charles Wood Part Songs
The National Youth Choir of Great Britain / Brewer / Isaacs
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The voice of experience meets the voice of youth in this album contrasting the voices of Bowman, a countertenor, and Swait, a boy chorister.
Swait's voice is clear, bright and tuned with innate... — More…CD
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A Priory release of exceptional quality and significance. I warmly commend The Complete Organ Works of Sir Hubert Parry to all readers — More…
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