Widely admired for his operas and symphonic works, and internationally acclaimed for his numerous film scores, Richard Rodney Bennett has received far less appreciation for his choral music, even though this body of work is quite substantial, highly accessible, and rewarding. These 2004 performances by John Rutter and the splendid Cambridge ...
Ikon by Harry Christophers and the Sixteen is a marvelous offering of sacred choral gems, the group's second collection on Decca following the successful 2005 release Renaissance: Music for Inner Peace. A perfect disc to introduce this well-established vocal ensemble to newcomers, Ikon consists of 16 works that are evenly matched in their sublime ...
Considering the longevity of the King's Singers' career (which began in the 1960s with performances of the Schola Cantorum Pro Musica Profana, or, as they were more casually known, the Cam River Boys), it's only natural that a greatest-hits album would require two discs, each crammed full of arrangements of popular songs and vocal pieces from the ...
This two-disc set of the orchestral music of Bohuslav Martinu is an odd mix of repertoire and performers. On disc 1 is the composer's turbulent Fourth Symphony and sprightly Sinfonia La Jolla from a 1979 English EMI recording with Walter Weller, former concertmaster of the Wiener Philharmoniker, conducting the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic plus a ...
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