Choral, Weir (composer)
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Judith Weir: Choral Music
recorded in the presence of the composer
Matthew Fletcher and Annie Lydford (organ)
Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, Geoffrey Webber (director)
The freshness and precision of Weir's writing is perfectly matched by the well tuned, clearly articulated singing of Geoffrey Webber's Gonville & Caius Choir...Nearby Jesus College Chapel provides... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2011, Choral & Song Choice
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A Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols: The Centenary Service
RecommendedChoir of King's College, Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury
This is a priceless record not only of the centenary of the most famous carol service in the world, but of the last to be directed by Sir Stephen Cleobury after 37 years at the helm of chapel... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th November 2019
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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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Dove, Weir & Martin (M): Choral works
RecommendedPeter Holder (organ)
Westminster Abbey Choir, James O’Donnell
This excellent collection of contemporary British choral works is a breath of fresh air, offering a gladly unstuffy vision of church music for the 21st century...Beautifully performed and skilfully... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 4th February 2022
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100 Years of Nine Lessons & Carols
RecommendedKing’s College Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury,Sir David Willcocks, Sir Philip Ledger
The opening track from 1958 sets the basic tone: the singing’s precise, sunny and rather dainty. Yet extra gusto soon arrives, and the modern carols Cleobury commissioned certainly stop tradition... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 30th November 2018
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Organs of Edinburgh
Usher Hall – John Kitchen, St Cuthbert’s Parish Church – Thomas Laing-Reilly, Palmerston Place Church – Andrew Caskie, St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral- Duncan Ferguson, Freemasons’ Hall – Timothy Byram-Wigfield, St Andrew’s & St George’s West Parish Church – Michael Harris, Broughton St Mary’s...
This is a magnificent package, fully befitting its subject...The entire collection is a veritable treasure-trove, a feast for lovers of organ music...Just 2,000 copies of this will ever be published... — More…
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The bright, jangling soundworld of Judith Weir's All the Ends of the Earth immediately cleanses the aural palate...the BBC Singers bring their customary high standards of versatility and exectuion... — More…
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…this outstanding issue celebrates 20 years of carols newly commissioned for the annual Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols. The two CDs are stuffed with memorable settings - Jonathan Dove's... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2005, Christmas Special Choice
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Nine Lessons & Carols: King's College Cambridge
RecommendedChoir of King's College Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury
Perhaps the lower voices aren't quite as smoothly blended here as they usually are at King's, but generally the level of achievement reached in these live performances is enviable. — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 3rd December 2012
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