Music For Queen Mary-A Celebration Of The Life And Death Of Queen Mary (1995) more music like this

performed by Emma Kirkby (soprano), Evelyn Tubb (soprano), Ian Bostridge (tenor), Michael Chance (counter tenor), New London Consort, Paula Chateauneuf (theorbo), Simon Birchall (vocals), Stephen Le Prevost (organ), Stephen Richardson (vocals), Westminster Abbey Choir
composed by Henry Purcell, James (Jacques) Paisible, John Blow, Thomas Morley, Thomas Tollett

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Bach: St. John Passion more music like this

performed by Andrew Murgatroyd (tenor), Anthony Robson (oboe), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Cornelius Hauptmann (bass), Gilian Ross (soprano), Guy Williams (flute), Jakob Lindberg (luta), Lisa Beznosiuk (flute), Michael Chance (alto), Nancy Argenta (soprano)
composed by Johann Sebastian Bach

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Georg Friedrich Handel: Judas Maccabaeus (1992) more music like this

performed by Catherine Denley (mezzo-soprano), Emma Kirkby (soprano), James Bowman (counter tenor), Jamie MacDougall (tenor), Michael George (baritone), Simon Birchall (vocals), Robert King (conductor)
composed by George Frederick Handel

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Miserere more music like this

performed by Abbey Consort, Simon Birchall (cantor), Westminster Abbey Choir (choir, chorus), Martin Neary (conductor)
composed by Antonio Lotti, Carlo Gesualdo, Claudio Monteverdi, Giovanni Gabrieli, Gregorian Chant, Gregorio Allegri, Joâo IV of Portugal, Tommaso Baj

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Barber Agnus Dei: An American Collection (2005) more music like this

performed by Benedict Hoffnung (bells), Benedict Hoffnung (drums), Benedict Hoffnung (clapping), Caroline Trevor (alto), Carys-Anne Lane (soprano), Helen Templeton (alto), Nicola Jenkin (soprano), Nicolas Robertson (vocals), Nicolas Robertson (tenor)
composed by Aaron Copland, David Del Tredici, Irving Fine, Leonard Bernstein, Samuel Barber, Steve Reich

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James Macmillan: The Birds of Rhiannon (2001) more music like this

performed by Andrew Murgatroyd (tenor), David Roy (tenor), Eleanor Meynell (soprano), Elizabeth Poole (soprano), Geoffrey Davidson (bass), Jacqueline Fox (alto), Jonathan Scott (organ), Judith Harris (alto), Karen Woodhouse (soprano), Kim Porter (alto)
composed by James MacMillan

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Frank Martin: Mass For Double Choir; Songs of Ariel; Ode à La Musique; etc. (2005) more music like this

performed by Catherine Edwards (piano), Chi-chi Nwanoku (double bass), Crispian Steele-Perkins (trumpet), Helen Verney (cello), Joanna Hensel (horn), Margaret Phillips (organ), Paul Nieman (trombone), Richard Kennedy (horn), Sally Bruce-Payne (alto)
composed by Frank Martin

Frank Martin's most important choral work is his a cappella Mass for Double Choir (1922-1926), though he also composed several short occasional choral pieces, which Harry Christophers and the Sixteen present with the Mass to round out this 2005 release. By arranging the program with less familiar works first, Christophers wants listeners to ...

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20th Century Christmas Collection (1990) more music like this

performed by Benedict Hoffnung (tambourine), Caroline Trevor (alto), Margaret Phillips (organ), Neil MacKenzie (tenor), Nicola Jenkin (soprano), Patricia Forbes (soprano), Robin Jeffrey (lute), Ruth Dean (soprano), Simon Birchall (baritone), William Lockhart (drums)
composed by Benjamin Britten, Edmund Rubbra, Herbert Howells, John Linton Gardner, John Tavener, Kenneth Leighton, Peter Hayward, Peter Maxwell Davies, Peter Racine Fricker, Peter Warlock, William Walton

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Monteverdi: L'Orfeo more music like this

performed by Anne Sofie von Otter (vocals), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (vocals), Diana Montague (vocals), English Baroque Soloists, His Majesty's Sagbutts and Cornetts (cornet), Howard Milner (vocals), John Timlinson (vocals), John Tomlinson (vocals)
composed by Claudio Monteverdi

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Pergolesi: Marian Vespers (2002) more music like this

performed by Academy of Ancient Music, Alison McGillivray (cello), Alistair Ross (continuo organ), Edward Higginbottom (organ), Joseph Crouch (continuo cello), Noemi Kiss (vocals), Pavlo Beznosiuk (violin), Simon Birchall (vocals), Sophie Daneman (vocals)
composed by Giovanni Pergolesi

This Erato release attempts to introduce the listener to various aspects, some perhaps neglected, of Pergolesi's work. Such an attempt would be quite laudable, Pergolesi mainly being known for his Stabat Mater and the brilliant intermezzo La serva padrona, were not Pergolesi: Marian Vespers, a random sequence of disparate vocal and instrumental ...

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Handel: Israel in Egypt (2003) more music like this

performed by Caroline Trevor (alto), Neil MacKenzie (tenor), Nicola Jenkin (treble), Paul Nicholson (organ), Robert Evans (bass), Simon Birchall (bass), The Sixteen (choir, chorus), Symphony of Harmony & Invention, Harry Christophers (conductor)
composed by George Frederick Handel

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Barber: Vanessa [Hybrid SACD] (2004) more music like this

performed by Catherine Wyn-Rogers (mezzo-soprano), Christine Brewer (soprano), Neal Davies (bass baritone), Simon Birchall (bass baritone), Stephen Charlesworth (bass), Susan Graham (mezzo-soprano), William Burden (tenor), BBC Singers (choir, chorus)
composed by Samuel Barber

Barber fans will welcome this new recording of Vanessa, which joins an aging original-cast production from the 1950s, and a budget version on Naxos, as only the third recording made to date. It is an excellent performance that rivals the RCA original for artistic quality (and far surpasses it in clarity and richness of sound), and could easily be ...

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Handel: Dixit Dominus; Nisi Dominus; Silete Venti (1991) more music like this

performed by Charles Brett (counter tenor), Christopher Royall (alto), Ian Partridge (tenor), Lynda Russell (soprano), Lynne Dawson (soprano), Mark Padmore (tenor), Michael George (bass), Nicola Jenkin (soprano), Sally Dunkley (soprano), Simon Birchall (bass)
composed by George Frederick Handel

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Love's Goddess Sure Was Blind (2004) more music like this

performed by Carys-Anne Lane (soprano), David Woodcock (violin), Helen Orsler (violin), Libby Crabtree (soprano), Neil MacKenzie (tenor), Simon Berridge (tenor), Simon Birchall (bass), The Sixteen (choir, chorus), Symphony of Harmony & Invention
composed by Henry Purcell, James (Jacques) Paisible, Thomas Morley, Thomas Tollett

When we last left Harry Christophers and his cracker jack a cappella chorus the Sixteen, they were making fabulous recordings for the wonderful Collins label. But that was back in the halcyon days of the CD boom, those far off times called the '90s, when everyone with a little capital and a lot of taste could start a record label. Back in the '90s ...

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Blest Cecilia: Britten Choral Works I (2002) more music like this

performed by Caroline Trevor (vocals), Carys-Anne Lane (vocals), Deborah Miles-Johnson (vocals), Libby Crabtree (vocals), Margaret Phillips (organ), Nicola Jenkin (vocals), Philip Daggett (vocals), Ruth Dean (vocals), Simon Berridge (vocals), Simon Birchall (vocals)
composed by Benjamin Britten

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Puccini: Madam Butterfly (2001) more music like this

performed by Ann Taylor (mezzo-soprano), Cheryl Barker (soprano), Clive Bayley (bass), D'Arcy Bleiker (baritone), Frances Brett (bass), Gregory Yurisich (baritone), Jean Rigby (mezzo-soprano), Paul Charles Clarke (tenor), Roland Wood (bass), Simon Birchall (bass)
composed by Giacomo Puccini

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Handel: Alexander Balus more music like this

performed by Catherine Denley (mezzo-soprano), Charles Daniels (tenor), Charles Pott (bass), Claron McFadden (soprano), Lynne Dawson (soprano), Michael George (bass), Simon Birchall (bass), Tom Raskin (tenor), Choir of the King's Consort (choir, chorus)
composed by George Frederick Handel

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Great Musical Occasions more music like this

performed by Iain Simcock (organ), Jo Crouch (treble), London Brass, Simon Birchall (bass), Westminster Abbey Choir (choir, chorus), Martin Neary (conductor)
composed by Anonymous, English, Arthur Bliss, Charles Villiers Stanford, Charles-Marie Widor, David Grant, Hubert Parry, John Hilton (ii), Ralph Vaughan Williams, Samuel Sebastian Wesley, Sir William McKie, Walter Alcock, William Walton

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Millennium of Music more music like this

performed by Andrew Giles (counter tenor), Christopher Tipping (counter tenor), Humphrey Clucas (tenor), John New (tenor), Leigh Nixon (tenor), Matthew Jeffers (treble), Michael Lees (counter tenor), Roger Cleverdon (bass), Simon Birchall (vocals)
composed by Anonymous, Anonymous, English, Douglas Guest, Francis Grier, George Frederick Handel, Henry Purcell, Herbert Howells, James Turle, John Blow, John Dowland, Orlando Gibbons, Peter Hurford, Robert White, Sir William McKie, William Cornysh

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Hodie: An English Christmas Collection (2001) more music like this

performed by Benedict Hoffnung (percussion), Christopher Royall (alto), Libby Crabtree (soprano), Margaret Phillips (organ), Neil MacKenzie (tenor), Nicola Jenkin (soprano), Patricia Forbes (soprano), Robin Jeffrey (lute), Ruth Dean (soprano), Sally Dunkley (soprano)
composed by Benjamin Britten, Edmund Rubbra, Herbert Howells, John Linton Gardner, John Tavener, Kenneth Leighton, Peter Hayward, Peter Racine Fricker, Peter Warlock, William Walton

The centerpiece of the Sixteen's collection of Christmas music by late Romantic and modern English composers is Britten's Ceremony of Carols. Harry Christophers, founder and conductor of the Sixteen, writes that performances of the piece have become so routine that practices alien to the composer's intent have become enshrined and unthinkingly ...

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Martin: Mass; Songs of Ariel (1996) more music like this

performed by Sally Bruce-Payne (alto), Simon Birchall (vocals), The Sixteen, Harry Christophers (conductor)
composed by Frank Martin

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The Voices of Angels: Music from the Eton Choirbook Volume 5 (1995) more music like this

performed by Caroline Ashton (treble), Carys-Anne Lane (soprano), Charles Gibbs (bass), David Roy (tenor), Duncan MacKenzie (tenor), Fiona Clarke (tenor), Jeremy White (bass), Libby Crabtree (soprano), Michael McCarthy (bass), Neil MacKenzie (tenor)
composed by John Plummer, Richard Davy, Richard Plummer, Walter Lambe, William, Monk of Stratford

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Handel: Dixit Dominus more music like this

performed by Arleen Augér (soprano), Diana Montague (contralto), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Leigh Dixon (tenor), Lynne Dawson (soprano), Simon Birchall (bass), Westminster Abbey Choir (choir, chorus), Westminster Abbey Orchestra, Simon Preston (conductor)
composed by George Frederick Handel

This version of Handel's Dixit Dominus, HWV 232, rounded out with the Nisi Dominus, HWV 238, and the Salve Regina, HWV 241, was made in 1988 and reigned as the state-of-the-art version for many years, with elegantly unobtrusive Deutsche Grammophon sound engineering in the old style. Finally it was outclassed by punchier versions by John Eliot ...

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Handel: Messiah [Includes Bonus CD] (2008) more music like this

performed by Andrew Lawrence-King (harp), Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Catherine Wyn-Rogers (alto), Christopher Purves (bass), Crispian Steele-Perkins (trumpet), Elin Manahan Thomas (soprano), Erin Headley (lironi), Katy Bircher (flute), Lynda Russell (soprano)
composed by George Frederick Handel

Admirers of Harry Christophers and his exemplary choral ensemble The Sixteen will no doubt have the highest expectations for this 2008 Coro release of George Frederick Handel's Messiah, especially because the group is almost ideal in size, sonority, and technical mastery to render this work in the best period performance style. Even the most ...

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Haydn: Nelson Mass; Wanczura: Symphony No. 2 The Russian (1998) more music like this

performed by Colin Lawson (clarinet), Fiori Musicali, Mark Chambers (counter tenor), Nicholas Hurndall Smith (tenor), Patrizia Kwella (soprano), Simon Birchall (bass)
composed by Ernst von Wanczura, Franz Joseph Haydn

This disc was recorded in memory of Princess Diana of Britain, shortly after her death. It was funded by another ill-fated icon of the 1990s, the Arthur Andersen accounting firm. The connections between the two works on the album are just about that tenuous; both date from the 1790s, and they have connections with icons of that era (British ...

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