Widely admired for his operas and symphonic works, and internationally acclaimed for his numerous film scores, Richard Rodney Bennett has received far less appreciation for his choral music, even though this body of work is quite substantial, highly accessible, and rewarding. These 2004 performances by John Rutter and the splendid Cambridge ...
Barber: Capricorn Concerto concludes Naxos American Classics' six-disc survey of the complete orchestral music of Samuel Barber as performed by Marin Alsop and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Far from being a collection of odds and ends, this gathering of lesser-known material directly contrasts the optimistic and extroverted moods of ...
Inspired by his Catholic faith, James MacMillan often composes intense works on religious themes. Yet unlike his older contemporaries, Sir John Tavener and Arvo Pärt, whose calm meditations and ecstatic paeans reflect their composers' certitude in Christian redemption, MacMillan frequently considers darker subjects and creates a dramatic tension ...
Since the work's premiere by the Cambridge University Greek Club in 1909, there have been exactly two complete performances of Vaughan Williams' incidental music in context for Aristophanes' The Wasps: a radio broadcast in 1972 and this performance also taken from a radio broadcast in 2005. One can readily understand why. The score is, relatively ...
No matter how many recordings of Bach's B minor Mass you've heard -- and if you're any kind of spiritual being, you've heard dozens -- you should check out this recording with Jos van Veldhoven leading the collected vocal and instrumental forces of the Netherlands Bach Society. To some, of course, forces may be too strong a word. With five ...
This box set is a compilation of compilations, an assembly of Rutter anthology discs featuring performances going back as far as 1983. Each CD is marked "This album is part of a box set. Not to be sold separately." But at least some of them appear to simply reproduce the booklet text and artwork of the original releases. The upside is that nothing ...
Who could not like this lovable recording of The Great Service by William Byrd? The complete dedication and total sincerity that the boys and men of the Choir of Westminster Abbey charismatically directed by James O'Donnell and discretely accompanied by organist Robert Quinney bring to their performance of Byrd's 400-year-old music more than ...
The logistical efforts involved in the making of this album must have been as strenuous as those on the musical side, for this is one of the first real all-star releases to have emerged from the historical-instrument side of the recording catalog. Lovers of vocal music per se may be interested in the dsic purely because it offers a rare ...
Several aspects of the Dufay Collective's rendition of the twelfth century The Play of Daniel (Ludus Danielis) are radically different from past outings of the esteemed period medieval band. There is a whole busload of singers, though for such a primarily vocal work like The Play of Daniel, this makes sense; however, on the inside of the booklet ...
With a great variety of new authentic-performance recordings of this landmark piece of sacred music on the market -- from Gardiner, Herreweghe, Jacobs, Savall, you name it -- and with each vying to produce a richer, more resonant version, it's a bit of a shock to encounter this plain, straight-ahead version. It has a well-drilled English choir, a ...
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