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Geminiani: | Concerto Grosso in D major, Op. 3, No. 1 Concerto Grosso in G minor, Op. 3, No. 2 Concerto grosso in E minor, Op. 3, No. 3 Concerto Grosso in D minor, Op. 3, No. 4 Concerto Grosso in B major, Op. 3, No. 5 Concerto Grosso in E minor, Op. 3, No. 6 |
Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood | 
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| |  | Haydn - Cello Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
Christophe Coin (cello) The Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood |
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| |  | Handel - Dettingen Te Deum
Richard Marlow (organ) The Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge & Academy of Ancient Music, Stephen Layton The Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge, is one of Britain’s great mixed choirs. Under its new director, the mercurial
Stephen Layton, it has reached new heights of musical excellence in this latest disc for Hyperion. Accompanied
throughout by the Academy of Ancient Music, the choir performs one of Handel’s most florid and dazzling works, the
Dettingen Te Deum, which was written to celebrate King George II’s triumphal return from the Battle of Dettingen in
1743. As might be imagined, much of this work is thrillingly bellicose, but some highly cultivated writing shows the
composer’s range, expressive versatility and imagination.
The disc also includes a stylish performance of the Organ Concerto No 14 in A major with Trinity’s former musical
director Richard Marlow at the organ, as well as Handel’s best-loved and most gloriously ceremonial anthem, Zadok the
Priest. “In this excellent account of Zadock the Priest by Layton, the most striking numbers are the internalised prayers for redemption and mercy, rather than the royal brown-nosing and tub-thumping. The youthful (undergraduate) voices of Trinity’s choir sing superbly throughout, and quite magnificently in Zadok, which rounds off the disc climactically after a stylish performance of the A major Organ Concerto by Richard Marlow.” Sunday Times, 22nd June 2008 **** “Composed to celebrate George II's victory against the French in 1743 - the last time a British monarch led his troops into battle - the "Dettingen" Te Deum is often dismissed as Handelian tub-thumping. Yet, in a performance as precise and exuberant as this (wonderfully expressive diction from the Trinity Choir), its trumpet-and-drum-fuelled extroversion comes across as elementally exciting rather than merely brash.
Handel is careful, though, to leaven bellicose ceremonial with moments of quiet entreaty, as in the poignant bass solo "Vouchsafe, O Lord", sensitively sung here by Neal Davies.
Zadok the Priest is duly overwhelming, without ponderousness, while Richard Marlow's nimble performance of the organ concerto makes a delightful bonus.” The Telegraph, 31st May 2008 “Trinity College Choir go a long way to restoring the [Te Deum] here, giving it the performance it failed to get first time, when, instead of St Paul's, Handel squeezed his musicians into the chapel at St James's Palace. Great singing with sprightly playing from the Academy.” The Observer, 25th May 2008 “Layton fervently rethinks every detail. His tempos are faultless, the Academy of Ancient Music plays as though possessed, and Neal Davies's solos lend an authority complementing the more soft-grained soloists from within the choir. A stylish Zadok and nimble Organ Concerto are welcome bonuses.” BBC Music Magazine, July 2008 **** “Complementing the inspiriting performance of the Te Deum… is a properly overwhelming account of Zadok the Priest… and a delightfully deft one… of the A major concerto that Handel quickly recycled as the Concerto grosso Op 6 No 11.” Gramophone Magazine, August 2008 |
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The Academy of Ancient Music, Richard Egarr (organ & direction) In the 1730s Handel was prepared to try any novelty in order to remain at the centre of the musical scene in London. This is what prompted him to interpolate concertos for organ, with himself as soloist, in performances of his oratorios. Their considerable success soon led to the publication of a whole set of such concertos: it is this edition, corrected with great care by the composer himself, that Richard Egarr used for the present recording. “Egarr's playing sparkles with vitality and character. The musicianship of the Academy of Ancient Music is outstanding, and their articulate and dynamically shaded playing is subtle and responsive.” Gramophone Magazine, August 2008 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Muffat - Florilegium Secundum
The Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood These suites (fasciculi) each include a French Ouverture followed by six or eight dances. Muffat was instrumental in bringing French and Italian styles into German-speaking countries, and was one of the first to incorporate the French overture (as here on this recording) into the German suite. “Hogwood's 1981 disc gave L'Oiseau Lyre's pioneering series its names and is welcome again - Franco-German charmer Georg Muffat is still under-recorded. Short measure, sonically too 'toppy' but excellent booklet information.” BBC Music Magazine, February 2008 *** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | (1751 version)This new recording of Handel’s Messiah presents the first modern recording of a re-construction of Handel’s unique London performances of Messiah in April and May 1751, when he used treble voices from the Chapel Royal for choruses and arias.
Henry Jenkinson, Otta Jones, Robert Brooks (trebles), Iestyn Davies (countertenor), Toby Spence (tenor), Eamonn Dougan (bass) Academy of Ancient Music & Choir of New College Oxford, Edward Higginbottom “This is a very special recording. Not only is it of quite outstanding quality both musically and dramatically, but, being sung entirely by male voices associated with a single institution (all the soloists are past or present members of New College Choir), it probably comes as close as modern conditions permit to a sound that Bach would have recognized.” The Daily Telegraph | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Emma Kirkby Academy of Ancient Music, Westminster Cathedral Choir, Christopher Hogwood | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Lynne Dawson (soprano), Hans Peter Blochwitz (tenor), Olaf Bär (baritone), Herbert Lippert (tenor), Christopher Purves (bass-baritone) The Academy of Ancient Music, Paul Goodwin | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Joan Sutherland, Emma Kirkby, James Bowman, Aled Jones, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, David Thomas The Academy of Ancient Music, New Collegae Choir, Oxford, Christopher Hogwood Gramophone Choral Award 1987 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Kirkby, Watkinson, Rolfe-Johnson & Thomas Chorus and Orchestra of The Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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