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Richard Marlow (organ) The Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge & Academy of Ancient Music, Stephen Layton The Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge, is one of Britain’s great mixed choirs. Under its new director, the mercurial
Stephen Layton, it has reached new heights of musical excellence in this latest disc for Hyperion. Accompanied
throughout by the Academy of Ancient Music, the choir performs one of Handel’s most florid and dazzling works, the
Dettingen Te Deum, which was written to celebrate King George II’s triumphal return from the Battle of Dettingen in
1743. As might be imagined, much of this work is thrillingly bellicose, but some highly cultivated writing shows the
composer’s range, expressive versatility and imagination.
The disc also includes a stylish performance of the Organ Concerto No 14 in A major with Trinity’s former musical
director Richard Marlow at the organ, as well as Handel’s best-loved and most gloriously ceremonial anthem, Zadok the
Priest. “In this excellent account of Zadock the Priest by Layton, the most striking numbers are the internalised prayers for redemption and mercy, rather than the royal brown-nosing and tub-thumping. The youthful (undergraduate) voices of Trinity’s choir sing superbly throughout, and quite magnificently in Zadok, which rounds off the disc climactically after a stylish performance of the A major Organ Concerto by Richard Marlow.” Sunday Times, 22nd June 2008 **** “Composed to celebrate George II's victory against the French in 1743 - the last time a British monarch led his troops into battle - the "Dettingen" Te Deum is often dismissed as Handelian tub-thumping. Yet, in a performance as precise and exuberant as this (wonderfully expressive diction from the Trinity Choir), its trumpet-and-drum-fuelled extroversion comes across as elementally exciting rather than merely brash.
Handel is careful, though, to leaven bellicose ceremonial with moments of quiet entreaty, as in the poignant bass solo "Vouchsafe, O Lord", sensitively sung here by Neal Davies.
Zadok the Priest is duly overwhelming, without ponderousness, while Richard Marlow's nimble performance of the organ concerto makes a delightful bonus.” The Telegraph, 31st May 2008 “Trinity College Choir go a long way to restoring the [Te Deum] here, giving it the performance it failed to get first time, when, instead of St Paul's, Handel squeezed his musicians into the chapel at St James's Palace. Great singing with sprightly playing from the Academy.” The Observer, 25th May 2008 | 
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The Academy of Ancient Music, Richard Egarr (organ & direction) In the 1730s Handel was prepared to try any novelty in order to remain at the centre of the musical scene in London. This is what prompted him to interpolate concertos for organ, with himself as soloist, in performances of his oratorios. Their considerable success soon led to the publication of a whole set of such concertos: it is this edition, corrected with great care by the composer himself, that Richard Egarr used for the present recording. |
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The Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood These suites (fasciculi) each include a French Ouverture followed by six or eight dances. Muffat was instrumental in bringing French and Italian styles into German-speaking countries, and was one of the first to incorporate the French overture (as here on this recording) into the German suite. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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The Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood Recorded:St Paul’s, Arnos Grove, London, June 1978 “The sequence of dances, beautifully performed on original instruments by Hogwood’s Academy, is consistently sharp and refreshing, helping to revive an undeservedly neglected name”.***Penguin Guide to Compact Discs | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | (1751 version)This new recording of Handel’s Messiah presents the first modern recording of a re-construction of Handel’s unique London performances of Messiah in April and May 1751, when he used treble voices from the Chapel Royal for choruses and arias.
Henry Jenkinson, Otta Jones, Robert Brooks (trebles), Iestyn Davies (countertenor), Toby Spence (tenor), Eamonn Dougan (bass) Academy of Ancient Music & Choir of New College Oxford, Edward Higginbottom “This is a very special recording. Not only is it of quite outstanding quality both musically and dramatically, but, being sung entirely by male voices associated with a single institution (all the soloists are past or present members of New College Choir), it probably comes as close as modern conditions permit to a sound that Bach would have recognized.” The Daily Telegraph | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | The Art of Joan Sutherland
Joan Sutherland (soprano), Carlo Bergonzi (tenor), Richard Bonynge (piano) Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London Symphony Orchestra, The Academy of Ancient Music, L’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande & Welsh National Opera Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult, Christopher Hogwood For the first time ever the complete selection of arias which formed the 1970 release of “Romantic French Arias” is available on CD; an extended scene from Act Three of Norma in a live recording from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, from a concert in aid of the Darwin appeal, is included and appears on CD for the first time; and an ever greater bonus is included here with the release FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER of 6 French songs with Richard Bonynge as pianist. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Purcell: | Abdelazer or The Moor's Revenge - incidental music, Z570 Bonduca or The British Heroine - incidental music, Z574 The Gordion Knot Untied - incidental music, Z597 Sir Anthony Love or the Rambling Lady - incidental music, Z588 Distressed Innocence or The Princess of Persia - incidental music, Z577 The Married Beau or The Curious Impertinent - incidental music, Z603 Circe - incidental music, Z575 The Virtuous Wife or Good Luck At Last - incidental music, Z611 The Old Batchelor - incidental music, Z607 Overture in G minor, Z770 Don Quixote - incidental music, Z578 Amphitryon or The Two Sosias - incidental music, Z572 The Double Dealer - incidental music, Z592 The Richmond Heiress or A Woman Once in the Right, Z608 The Rival Sisters or The Violence of Love - incidental music, Z609 Henry the Second, King of England - incidental music, Z580 Tyrannic Love or The Royal Martyr - incidental music, Z613 Overture in G minor Z772 Theodosius, or The Force of Love - incidental music, Z606 The Libertine or The Libertine Destroyed - incidental music, Z600 The Massacre of Paris: Thy genius lo!, Z604 Oedipus - incidental music, Z583 The History of King Richard the Second or The Sicilian Usurper: Retir'd from any mortal's sight, Z581 Sir Barnaby Whigg or No Wit Like a Woman's: Blow, Blow, Boreas blow, Z589 Beneath a poplar's shadow The English Lawyer: My wife has a tongue, Z594 A Fool's Preferment or The Three Dukes of Dunstable - incidental music, Z571 The Indian Emperor or The Conquest of Mexico: I look'd and saw within, Z598 The Knight of Malta: At the close of the ev'ning, Z599 A Dialogue between Thirsis and Daphne: Why, my Daphne, why complaining, Z525 The Wife's Excuse, or Cuckolds make themselves - incidental music, Z612 Cleomenes, the Spartan Hero: No, no, poor suff'ring heart, Z576 Regulus or The Faction of Carthage: Ah me! to many deaths, Z586 The Marriage-Hater Match'd: incidental music, Z602 Love Triumphant or Nature Will Prevail: How happy's the husband, Z582 There's not a swain (Rule a Wife and Have a Wife) The Female Virtuosos: Love, thou art best, Z596 Epsom Wells: Leave these useless arts, Z579 The Maid's Last Prayer, or Any Rather than Fail - incidental music, Z601 I see she flies me ev'rywhere The Canterbury Guests or A Bargain Broken: Good neighbour why?, Z591 The Fatal Marriage or The Innocent Adultery - incidental music, Z595 The Spanish Friar or The Double Discovery: Whilst I with grief, Z610 Pausanius, the Betrayer of his Country - incidental music, Z585 The Mock Marriage: Oh! how you protest...'Twas within a furlong, Z605 Oroonoko: Celemene, pray tell me, Z584 Pavan in A major Z748 Pavan in A minor Z749 Pavan in B flat major Z750 Pavan in G minor Z751 Pavan for Three Violins and Bass in G minor - Z752 Trio Sonata, for violin, bass viol and organ, Z780 Chacony in G minor - for Two Violins, Viola and Bass Z730 |
Emma Kirkby, Judith Nelson, Elizabeth Lane, Joy Roberts, Prudence Lloyd (sopranos), James Bowman (countertenor), Martyn Hill, Rogers Covey-Crump, Paul Elliott, Alan Byers, Peter Bamber, Julian Pike (tenors), David Thomas, Christopher Keyte, Geoffrey Shaw, Michael George (basses) Academy of Ancient Music, The Taverner Choir, Christopher Hogwood | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Lynne Dawson (soprano), Hans Peter Blochwitz (tenor), Olaf Bär (baritone), Herbert Lippert (tenor), Christopher Purves (bass-baritone) The Academy of Ancient Music, Paul Goodwin | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Joan Sutherland, Emma Kirkby, James Bowman, Aled Jones, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, David Thomas The Academy of Ancient Music, New Collegae Choir, Oxford, Christopher Hogwood Gramophone Choral Award 1987 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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James Bowman, Arleen Augér, Catherine Robbin, Emma Kirkby, David Thomas Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Gramophone Awards 1987
