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The Sixteen, Harry Christophers (conductor)» More |
The Cambridge Singers, John Rutter (conductor)» More |
The Cambridge Singers, John Rutter (conductor)» More |
Gabrieli Consort, Paul McCreesh (conductor)» More |
Tenebrae, Nigel Short (conductor)» More |
Jesus College Choir Cambridge, Mark Williams (conductor)» More |
from notes by John Milsom © 2013
A Song of Farewell Continuing Signum’s new partnership with Paul McCreesh and the Gabrieli Consort, their latest release is a recording of the groups renowned a cappella programme of music for mourning and consolation. This is a beautifully poignant programme of Bri ...» More |
Hail, gladdening Light This album gathers together 23 examples of English sacred a cappella choral music drawn from several centuries, and forms a companion volume to Collegium’s earlier collection, Faire is the Heaven.» More |
Lighten our Darkness The service of Compline has inspired many incredibly beautiful compositions. This collection gathers together eighteen of the many lovely a cappella choral motets written by composers including Byrd, Guerrero, Rachmaninov and Sheppard, to adorn th ...» More |
Renaissance Radio Sacred Music from the Renaissance Era for Celestial and Secular Radio. When Peter Phillips founded The Tallis Scholars in 1973 sacred vocal music from the Renaissance Era was seldom heard on radio. Now it is firmly established as one of the great ...» More |
Sheppard: Church Music, Vol. 1 ‘A magnificent collection. The Sixteen consistently convey the rapturous beauty of Sheppard's writing, above all in ethereal passages in the highest r ...» More |
Stillness and Sweet Harmony This is music to bring peace. From the wealth of music spanning over ten centuries recorded by the Cambridge Singers, John Rutter has selected fifteen serene and tranquil tracks from Collegium albums.» More |
Tallis: Lamentations & medieval chant The Tenebrae Consort explores classic works at the very heart of the Medieval and early-Renaissance British Choral Tradition.» More |
The Evening Hour The choir of Jesus College Cambridge contemplates the hours that take us from day into night in a programme of works by English composers from the sixteenth and twentieth centuries.» More |
The Sixteen & The Golden Age of English Polyphony When The Sixteen embarked upon their recording career back in 1982, few would have been able to predict quite how far they would go towards rehabilitating the little-known music of these four master composers of the 16th century. In this their 30t ...» More |
The Tallis Scholars sing Tudor Church Music, Vol. 2 "Of all the polyphony we have recorded, this early English style with its dazzling high treble parts and luminous sonorities is, for me, as good as it gets. Our pioneering performances of Sheppard and White have shown them to be the equals of Tall ...» More |