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Following a string of five-star reviews for their previous discs of 20th-century French choral music (Poulenc’s Figure Humaine ) and Renaissance polyphony (Victoria’s Requiem), the professional chamber-choir Tenebrae go from strength to strength with this new recording of British partsongs and choral music – centred on Hubert Parry’s Songs of Farewell. Composed towards the end of Parry’s life, the Songs of Farewell have taken on something of an epithetical interpretation; they are almost a musical summation of his compositional life, reflecting Parry’s love of English renaissance madrigals and partsongs as much as the influence on his work from German composers like Brahms – made more complicated as these works were composed as the country (and its music) fell out of favour at the start of the Great War. “all performed with Tenebrae’s customary poise.” Financial Times, 15th October 2011 **** “[Tenebrae's] account of Parry's Songs of Farewell abounds in subtleties of phrasing and telling distinctions of dynamic, yet flows beautifully, the textual narrative unfolding with a rare continuity and coherence. Technically the singing is impeccable without being at all effortful or studied...Huge credit to Nigel Short. Of this programme's type, I can't envisage hearing anything better.” BBC Music Magazine, December 2011 ***** “Short gives wonderful shape to the well-known 'My soul, there is a country' and extracts that essential longing from 'I know my soul hath power'...Most impressive, however, is the fluidity of the double-choir motet, 'Lord, let me know mine end', the textual clarity and emotional intensity of that fairly summarises the complexity of the composer's heterodoxy.” Gramophone Magazine, December 2011 “The tone quality achieved by Tenebrae is incredibly smooth and consistent. There isn't a hint of unevenness or unwanted peaks and troughs within individual voice parts. It's an extremely easy choir to listen to...there is a very quiet, still quality to the disc that, over the course of the whole programme, is quite soporific, relaxing and altogether ideal for a winter evening's listening.” International Record Review, February 2012 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | English Anthems from OxfordByrd to Britten
Bairstow: | Let all mortal flesh keep silence | Boyce: | O where shall wisdom be found? | Britten: | Hymn to St. Peter, Op. 56a | Byrd: | Sing joyfully | Farrant, R: | Hide not thou thy face | Gibbons, O: | O Lord, in thy wrath rebuke me not | Greene, M: | Lord, Let Me Know Mine End | Harris, W: | Bring us, O Lord God | Howells: | Like as the Hart | Purcell: | Remember not, O Lord, our offences, Z50 I was glad when they said unto me, Z19 | Stainer: | I saw the Lord | Stanford: | Glorious and Powerful God, Op. 135 No. 3 | Tallis: | I call and cry to thee, O Lord | Weelkes: | Hosanna to the Son of David | Wesley, S S: | Blessed be the God and Father | Wood, C: | Hail, gladdening Light |
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| |  | An Oxford Evensongfeaturing composers of the University
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| |  | One thing have I desiredChoral Music from Exeter College, Oxford
Richard Moore & Joshua Hales (organ) The Chapel Choir of Exeter College, Oxford, Alistair Reid (director) Released to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the magnificent George Gilbert Scott chapel at Exeter College, Oxford. A wide range of twentieth- and twenty-first-century sacred choral works, including first recordings of works by John Gardner and Jackson Hill and a new commission for the anniversary celebrations from renowned composer Jonathan Dove. The first commercial release from this superb Oxbridge choir. “Alistair Reid maintains a pleasing balance and tone with the Exeter College choir who are on good form. The intonation is clear and the sonority rich...Jonathan Dove's three evocative miniatures...in their subtle harmonic and rhythmic worlds, are compellingly performed.” Gramophone Magazine, June 2010 | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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| |  | Great Cathedral Anthems Vol. 2
Blow: | Salvator Mundi | Boyce: | O where shall wisdom be found? | Finzi: | God is gone up, Op. 27 No. 2 | Gardiner, H B: | Evening Hymn (Te lucis ante terminum) | Harris, W: | Bring us, O Lord God | Harvey, J: | The Tree | Haydn: | Insanae et vanae curae | Naylor, E W: | Vox dicentis: Clama | Purcell: | Hear my prayer, O Lord, Z15 | Stanford: | For lo, I raise up, Op. 145 | Tavener: | Hymn to the Mother of God | Walton: | Jubilate Deo | Wood, C: | Great Lord of lords |
Neil Taylor (organ) The Choir of Norwich Cathedral, Michael Nicholas | | | Usually despatched in 8 - 10 working days. |
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| |  | Ave VerumSacred Choral Favourites
Boyle, M C: | Thou, O God, art praised | Brahms: | How lovely are Thy dwellings | Bruckner: | Locus iste, WAB 23 | Byrd: | Ave verum Corpus | Duruflé: | Requiem, Op. 9: Pie Jesu | Elgar: | Ave verum corpus, Op. 2 No. 1 | Fauré: | Cantique de Jean Racine, Op. 11 | Franck, C: | Panis Angelicus | Grieg: | Ave Maris Stella | Harris, W: | Bring us, O Lord God | Haydn: | Insanae et vanae curae | Lotti: | Crucifixus | Mendelssohn: | Elijah: Denn er hat seinem Engeln | Mozart: | Ave verum corpus, K618 | Parsons, R: | Ave Maria | Rachmaninov: | Hymn of the Cherubim | Rossini: | O salutaris hostia | Stanford: | O for a closer walk with God, Op. 113 No. 6 | Wesley, S S: | Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace |
A collection of everyone’s favourite sacred choral music, including Mozart’s Ave verum corpus, Faure’s Cantique de Jean Racine and Franck’s Panis angelicus. In addition to these famous works is music by Bruckner, Stanford, Grieg, Byrd, Mendelssohn, Lotti, Rachmaninoff, Elgar and Brahms. This is music to soothe the soul! | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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Roger Judd (organ) Choir of St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, Timothy Byram-Wigfield (director) | | | (also available to download from $6.00) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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The Chapel Choir of Corpus Christi College Cambridge, Daniel Soper, Rebecca Drake | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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| | Kontakion of the departed O quanta qualia Deep river Steal away | Byrd: | Justorum animae O Lux beata Trinitas | Davies, Walford: | Psalm 121 'I will lift up mine eyes' Requiem aeternam | Despres: | Nunc Dimittis | Grechaninov: | Svyétye tíkhii (Hail, gladdening Light) | Gregorian Chant: | Domine Jesu Christe In paradisum Lumen Requiem aeternam | Harris, W: | Bring us, O Lord God Faire is the heaven | Hildegard: | O coruscans lux stellarum O felix anima | Holst: | The Evening-watch, H159 Nunc dimittis, H127 | Ligeti: | Lux aeterna | Palestrina: | Christe, qui lux es et dies Lucis Creator optime | Parry: | There is an old belief (No. 4 from Songs of Farewell) | Rachmaninov: | Nunc Dimittis | Rautavaara: | Ehtoohymni | Rutter: | Hymn to the Creator of Light | Schütz: | Selig sind die Toten, SWV391 | Sheppard, J: | Audivi vocem de caelo | Tallis: | O nata lux de lumine 5vv Te lucis ante terminum | Tavener: | Funeral Ikos | Tchaikovsky: | Svyétye tíkhii (Hail, gladdening Light) | Victoria: | O quam gloriosum, motet | White, Robert: | Christe qui lux es et dies | Wood, C: | Hail, gladdening Light |
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| |  | Dance my Heart100 Years of singing at Chingford
Archer, M: | Dance My Heart | Bruckner: | Virga Jesse floruit Christus factus est | Byrd: | Magnificat (The Second Service) Haec dies | Elgar: | Give unto the Lord (Psalm XXIX), Op. 74 | Harris, W: | Bring us, O Lord God | Howells: | Nunc dimittis (Collegium Regale, 1945) | Lole: | The Father's love | Mozart: | Ave verum corpus, K618 | Purcell: | Jehova, quam multi sunt hostes, Z135 | Rutter: | The Lord bless you and keep you | Stanford: | For lo, I raise up, Op. 145 | Tallis: | O nata lux de lumine 5vv Te lucis ante terminum In manus tuas |
Choirs of Chingford Parish Church, Michael Emerson | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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BBC Music Magazine Awards 2012
