Presto CD,
Presto CD - Argo
Today sees the release of twenty new Presto CD titles, all taken from the vaults of Argo. There are several vintage performances from The Choir of King's College Cambridge and Stephen Cleobury, including works by Victoria, Palestrina, Britten and Vivaldi, a couple of landmark organ recitals from Peter Hurford and Thomas Trotter, and music from a fair few contemporary composers including Roger Sessions, Peter Maxwell Davies, Kevin Volans and Paul Schoenfield.
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Argo
Stephen Cleobury conducts The Choir of King's College, Cambridge in in two motets and the masses based on them: Palestrina's 'Tu es Petrus' and Victoria's 'O Quam gloriosum'.
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Peter Hurford performs works by Widor, Vierne, Reger, Mendelssohn, Karg-Elert, Alain and Brahms.
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Sir Neville Marriner conducts the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields in four of Fauré's best-known works.
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Isobel Buchanan, Ian Partridge and John Shirley-Quirk are among the soloists on these performances with The Choir of King's College, Cambridge and the English Chamber Orchestra.
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Peter Hurford plays works by Georg Böhm, Louis Couperin, Kerll, Buxtehude, Pachelbel and others.
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Peter Hurford performs three of Franck's best-known organ works on the organs of the Basilica of Saint-Sernin, Toulouse and the Royal Festival Hall.
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Sir Neville Marriner directs the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, with Colin Tilney at the harpsichord in these performances from the early 1970s.
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David Hill conducts the Choir of Winchester Cathedral in Byrd's Masses for three, four and five voices.
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The Choir of King's College, Cambridge perform works including the Collegium Regale Service, psalms and responses and Take him, earth for cherishing under the direction of Stephen Cleobury.
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David Zinman conducts the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in Green Music, Ecstatic Orange, Bright Blue Music, Ash and Purple.
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Thomas Trotter performs the complete Gothic Symphony and excerpts from Symphonies Nos. 5, 6 and 8, including the famous Toccata.
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Stephen Cleobury directs The Choir of King's College, Cambridge in Britten's three great Christmas works; Rachel Masters is the harpist in A Ceremony of Carols.
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Joined by tenor Neil Mackie and organist Christopher Hughes, The Choir of King's College, Cambridge perform three works by Maxwell Davies under the direction of Stephen Cleobury.
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Robert Cohen is the soloist in the Cello Concerto under Charles Mackerras, who also conducts the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in the Enigma Variations and Froissart.
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John Nelson conducts the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and Prague Philharmonic Chorus in Beatus vir, Totus tuus and Old Polish Music.
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John Nelson conducts the New World Symphony Orchestra in Four Parables, Vaudeville and Klezmer Rondos.
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The Balanescu Quartet perform the South African composer's Hunting: Gathering and The Songlines.
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Oliver Knussen conducts the London Sinfonietta in Hear Ye! and Prelude for Chamber Orchestra and the Cleveland Orchestra in Grohg. .
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The composer conducts the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra & Michael Nyman Band in the concerto arranged from his film scores, with Kathryn Stott as soloist.
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Dennis Russell Davies conducts the American Composers Orchestra in three symphonies by Roger Sessions.
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