Vaughan Williams: The Nine Symphonies [Box Set] (2003) more music like this

performed by Alex Taylor (viola), Anthony Camden (cor anglais), Anthony Halstead (horn), Douglas Cummings (cello), Gervase de Peyer (clarinet), Heather Harper (soprano), James Buswell (violin), John Fletcher (tuba), John Georgiadis (violin)
composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams

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Vaughan Williams: Hodie & Fantasia on Christmas Carols (2000) more music like this

performed by Gavin Williams (organ), Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), John Shirley-Quirk (baritone), Philip Ledger (organ), Richard Lewis (tenor), Bach Choir (choir, chorus), Choir of Guildford Cathedral (choir, chorus), Westminster Abbey Choristers (choir, chorus)
composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams

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Haydn: The Creation; Missa in tempore belli (2006) more music like this

performed by Alexander Young (tenor), Andrew Davis (organ), Heather Harper (soprano), James Blades (tympani [timpani]), James Lancelot (harpsichord), John Shirley-Quirk (bass), Keith Harvey (cello), Pamela Bowden (contralto), Robert Tear (tenor)
composed by Franz Joseph Haydn

The budget Classics for Pleasure line from Britain has reissued a growing variety of famous performances from the 1960s and early 1970s. Some haven't aged a bit; some offer sterling examples of how fashions change. And some fall in between those extremes. Made in 1974, this was a reference recording of Haydn's The Creation for many years, ...

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Handel: Messiah (1993) more music like this

performed by Heather Harper (soprano), Helen Watts (contra-alto), John Shirley-Quirk (vocals), John Wakefield (tenor), Leslie Pearson (harpsichord), Ralph Downes (organ), William Lang (trumpet), London Symphony Chorus (choir, chorus), London Symphony Orchestra
composed by George Frederick Handel

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Lutoslawski: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 (1994) more music like this

performed by John Shirley-Quirk (baritone), Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor)
composed by Witold Lutoslawski

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Prokofiev: Ivan the Terrible; Alexander Nevsky; Rachmaninov: The Bells (2007) more music like this

performed by Anatoly Mokrenko (baritone), Anna Reynolds (mezzo-soprano), Boris Morgounov, Irina Arkhipova (mezzo-soprano), John Shirley-Quirk (baritone), Robert Tear (tenor), Sheila Armstrong (soprano), Ambrosian Chorus (choir, chorus)
composed by Sergey Prokofiev, Sergey Rachmaninov

The three works collected here, Prokofiev's Ivan the Terrible and Alexander Nevsky and Rachmaninov's The Bells, are naturals to be grouped together in a set. All are essentially orchestral works with a significant choral component and parts for soloists. Prokofiev's two works are derived from film scores he wrote for the director Sergei Eisenstein ...

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Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius (2007) more music like this

performed by Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), John Mitchinson (tenor), John Shirley-Quirk (bass), City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus (choir, chorus), Simon Rattle (conductor)
composed by Edward Elgar

For EMI, the label that had already made a series of ever more opulent and magnificent recordings of Elgar's oratorio The Dream of Gerontius, the temptation to try again in 1986 must have been irresistible. Mezzo-soprano Janet Baker, who starred in Barbirolli's 1964 recording, was still professionally active in 1986, and so were fellow veterans ...

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Handel: Coronation Anthems; Dixit Dominus more music like this

performed by Andrew Davis (harpsichord), Charles Daniels (tenor), David Briggs (organ), Gerald Finley (bass), Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), John Butt (harpsichord), John Langdon (organ), John Shirley-Quirk (bass), Martin Lane (alto), Michael Chance (alto)
composed by George Frederick Handel

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Mahler: Symphony No. 8 (2006) more music like this

performed by Heather Harper (soprano), John Shirley-Quirk (baritone), Lucia Popp (soprano), Martti Talvela (bass), René Kollo (tenor), Vienna Boys' Choir (boy's choir), Vienna State Opera Choir (choir, chorus), Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Georg Solti (conductor)
composed by Gustav Mahler

Aside from his sensational Wagner Ring cycle, if one recording in Georg Solti's catalog bears repeated reissues, it must be his truly legendary rendition of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8 in E flat major, "Symphony of a Thousand," a captivating performance that was unmatched in its day and one that still holds its own against later releases. No ...

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Arnold Schoenberg: Serenade/Five Pieces For Orchestra (1993) more music like this

performed by Alain Neveux (piano), Andre Saint-Clivier (mandolin), Ensemble InterContemporain [members of], Gerard Causse (viola), Guy Arnaud (clarinet), Jacques Ghestem (violin), John Shirley-Quirk (vocals), Marie-Therese Ghirardi (guitar), Michel Arrignon (clarinet)
composed by Arnold Schoenberg

The three works presented here reveal distinctly different phases of Arnold Schoenberg's development, each a critical point of departure. In the Pieces (5) for Orchestra (1909), Schoenberg's atonal language appears full-blown and marks a clear break with tonality. For the first time, Schoenberg places content over form and dispenses with any ...

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Britten Conducts Britten: Operas 1 [Box Set] (2004) more music like this

performed by Anne Pashley (vocals), April Cantelo (vocals), Benjamin Luxon (vocals), Bryan Drake (vocals), Catherine Wilson (vocals), Claire Watson (vocals), David Bowman (vocals), David Kelly (vocals), David Read (vocals), Delme Bryn-Jones (vocals)
composed by Benjamin Britten

Benjamin Britten's recordings of his own operas are definitive -- cutting out the interpretive middle man and going straight to the heart of every bar, every scene. For sure, there are better sounding, and in many cases better sung, recordings to be had, especially of the popular works like Peter Grimes and Billy Budd; but none of them are as ...

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Bach: Cantata 147; 6 Motet; Chorales & chorale preludes for Advent & Christmas more music like this

performed by Andrew Davis (organ), David Willcocks (organ), Elly Ameling (soprano), Ian Hare (organ), Ian Partridge (tenor), Iona Brown (violin), Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), Janet Craxton (oboe d'amore), Janet Craxton (oboe), John Grey (double bass)
composed by Johann Sebastian Bach

The performances on this two-CD budget-price set from EMI are classics of the English choral sound, but the music included is a bit of a mishmash. The Choir of King's College, Cambridge, with its 16 adult male and boy choristers, recorded often during the directorship of Sir David Willcocks, and this set includes selections from their several Bach ...

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The Best Choral Album in the World...Ever! (1999) more music like this

performed by Charles Brett (alto), Daniel Sladden (bass), David Bell (organ), David Corkhill (percussion), Eiddwen Harrhy (soprano), Felicity Lott (soprano), Gerald Finley (cantor), Heather Harper (soprano), Ian Partridge (tenor), James Morris (bass)
composed by Alexander Borodin, Amadeo Vives, Antonio Vivaldi, Carl Orff, César Franck, Edward Elgar, Felix Mendelssohn, Francis Poulenc, Franz Joseph Haydn, Gabriel Fauré, George Frederick Handel, Giuseppe Verdi, Gregorian Chant, Gregorio Allegri, Hector Berlioz

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Elgar: The Light of Life (1993) more music like this

performed by Arthur Davies (tenor), John Shirley-Quirk (baritone), Judith Howarth (soprano), Linda Finnie (contralto), London Symphony Chorus (choir, chorus), London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox (conductor)
composed by Edward Elgar

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Britten: The Rape of Lucretia; Phaedra (1990) more music like this

performed by Benjamin Luxon (vocals), Bryan Drake (vocals), Elizabeth Bainbridge (vocals), Heather Harper (vocals), Janet Baker (soprano), Janet Baker (vocals), Jenny Hill (vocals), John Shirley-Quirk (vocals), Peter Pears (vocals), English Chamber Orchestra
composed by Benjamin Britten

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Handel: Judas Maccabeus (2007) more music like this

performed by Alexander Young (tenor), Christopher Keyte (bass baritone), Heather Harper (soprano), Helen Watts (contralto), Jean Temperley (mezzo-soprano), John Shirley-Quirk (baritone), Patricia Clark (soprano), Amor Artis Chamber Choir (choir, chorus)
composed by George Frederick Handel

Little on the outside packaging of this album, other than the names of the soloists, tells the buyer that the music was originally recorded in 1971. First released by the Vanguard label, the performance was well done in the first place and has had a durable life in budget reissues. The buyer should know what he or she is getting -- a thoroughly ...

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Mahler: The Symphonies [Box Set] (1991) more music like this

performed by Arleen Augér (soprano), Heather Harper (soprano), Helen Watts (contralto), Helga Dernesch (contralto), Isobel Buchanan (soprano), John Shirley-Quirk (baritone), Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano), Lucia Popp (soprano), Martti Talvela (bass), Mira Zakai (contralto)
composed by Gustav Mahler

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Elgar: Orchestral & Choral Works; Concertos [Box Set] (2002) more music like this

performed by Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Alison Hagley (soprano), Band of the Grenadier Guards [Unspecified], Bernard Richards (cello), Bryn Terfel (bass), Cecil Aronowitz (viola), Della Jones (mezzo-soprano), Emanuel Hurwitz (violin)
composed by Edward Elgar

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Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony more music like this

performed by Heather Harper (soprano), John Shirley-Quirk (baritone), London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra (choir, chorus), London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, André Previn (conductor)
composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams

The authoritative recording of Ralph Vaughan Williams' Symphony No. 1, "A Sea Symphony" (1903-1909), is generally conceded to be the stirring rendition by Adrian Boult and the London Philharmonic Orchestra & Chorus, with soprano Sheila Armstrong and baritone John Carol Case, released in 1968 on EMI. But the 1970 RCA recording by André Previn ...

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Orff: Carmina Burana more music like this

performed by John Shirley-Quirk (baritone), Louis Devos (tenor), Norma Burrowes (soprano), Brighton Festival Chorus (choir, chorus), Southend Boys' Choir (choir, chorus), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Antal Dorati (conductor)
composed by Carl Orff

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Mozart: Requiem Mass K.626 (1987) more music like this

performed by Helen Watts (contra-alto), Ileana Cotrubas (soprano), John Shirley-Quirk (vocals), Robert Tear (tenor), Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Neville Marriner (conductor)
composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Gustav Mahler: Orchestral Songs (1996) more music like this

performed by Hermann Prey (baritone), James King (tenor), Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), Jessye Norman (soprano), John Shirley-Quirk (vocals), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink (conductor)
composed by Gustav Mahler

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Britten: Gloriana (1993) more music like this

performed by Alan Opie (vocals), Bryn Terfel (vocals), Christopher Cornall (vocals), Della Jones (vocals), Dominic Gill (vocals), James Miller-Coburn (vocals), Janice Watson (vocals), Jenevora Williams (vocals), John Mark Ainsley (vocals), John Shirley-Quirk (vocals)
composed by Benjamin Britten

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Choral Favourites from King's (2006) more music like this

performed by Academy of Ancient Music, Alfreda Hodgson (alto), Andrew Davis (piano), Andrew King (tenor), Bruce Russell (treble), Cambridge Classical Players, Felicity Lott (soprano), Francis Grier (organ), Gerald Finley (cantor), Heather Harper (soprano)
composed by Antonio Vivaldi, Benjamin Britten, Charles Wood, Edward Elgar, Franz Joseph Haydn, Franz Schubert, Frederick Delius, Gabriel Fauré, George Frederick Handel, Gregorio Allegri, Henry Purcell, Johann Sebastian Bach, John Bacchus Dykes, John Rutter

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Pierre Monteux Conducts Berlioz La Damnation de Faust (Complete) more music like this

performed by Andre Turp (tenor), John Shirley-Quirk (baritone), Michel Roux (baritone), Régine Crespin (soprano), London Symphony Chorus (choir, chorus), London Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Monteux (conductor)
composed by Hector Berlioz

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