Browse: Choir of Merton College Oxford (choir)
This page lists all recordings performed by Choir of Merton College Oxford.
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Gabriel Jackson: The Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ
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Guy Cutting (tenor), Emma Tring (soprano), Francesca Millar (soprano), Isabelle Blain (alto), Samuel Costello (tenor), Freddie Crowley (bass), Nicholas Trapp (bass)
Choir of Merton College, Oxford, Benjamin Nicholas
This outstanding recording of Gabriel Jackson’s retelling of the Passion story bursts with energy... Jackson’s engaging score is richly colourful and his instrumental writing proves a particular... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2019, Editor's Choice
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2019, Choral & Song Choice
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2020, Winner - Choral
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Bob Chilcott: Christmas Oratorio
RecommendedNeal Davies (bass-baritone), Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano), Nick Pritchard (tenor), The Choir of Merton College, Oxford, Benjamin Nicholas
Chilcott uses the Evangelist, and Olivia Jageurs’s accompanying nimble harp, to give us those moments of rapt stillness that mark that certain Christmas magic, and also to change the flow amidst... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st December 2023
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Working in a broadly traditional style, he explores a harmonic world of blurred but euphonious richness, the writing skilled and unfailingly effective…These beautifully shaped performances by... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, September 2018
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In the Beginning
Beth Mackay (mezzo-soprano) & Natasha Tyrwhitt-Drake (organ scholar)
Choir of Merton College, Oxford, Benjamin Nicholas & Peter Phillips (directors)
The 18 uninterrupted minutes of Copland's a cappella In the Beginning are a major test of any choir's stamina and concentration, and it's one the Mertonians pass with confidence...[Beth Mackay]... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2011, Editor's Choice
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Orchestral Anthems: Elgar | Finzi | Dyson | Howells
Britten Sinfonia, Choir of Merton College Oxford, Benjamin Nicholas
Benjamin Nicholas maintains excellent control of his forces in a recording that is sonorously generous and forward in sound. The Merton choirs (including the soloists) are in fine voice and the... — More…
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Ian Venables: Requiem & Herbert Howells: Anthems for Choir & Orchestra
Eppie Sharp, Aine Smith, Edmund Saddington, LucyAnne Fletcher
Choir of Merton College Oxford, Oxford Contemporary Sinfonia, Benjamin Nicholas
This isn’t music to shake mountains, but its craftsmanship, sincerity and ability to stir the more tender emotions – well reflected in this performance – remains undeniably appealing. — More…
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The Merton Collection: Merton College at 750
Anne Steppler (organ)
Choir of Merton College, Oxford, Peter Phillips & Benjamin Nicholas
In only a few years the choir has established itself as one of the leading collegiate choirs in the UK. This, its third disc for Delphian, confirms that it is now, surely, one of the jewels in... — More…
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Cecilia McDowall: Shipping Forecast
Madeleine Easton (violin), Kathryn Thomas & Joanna Shaw (flutes), Andrew Hobday (narrator), Jeremy Huw Williams (baritone), Tamás Kocsis (violin)
Orchestra Nova, Choir of Merton College, Oxford, Ulster Orchestra, George Vass
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Viri Galilaei: Favourite Anthems from Merton
Charles Warren, Peter Shepherd
Choir of Merton College, Oxford, Benjamin Nicholas, Peter Phillips
the Merton choir's singing is notable for its clarity. The polyphonic lines of Byrd's Diliges Dominum, the antiphonal effects of Harris's classic Faire is the heaven and even the dense textures... — More…
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the jutting vocal fanfares of [Weir's] Ave Regina caelorum set a brightly celebratory atmosphere at the disc's beginning...The seven-part writing of Hannah Kendall's numinous Regina caeli is... — More…
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