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City of London Sinfonia & The Cambridge Singers, John Rutter John Rutter is probably the world's favourite choral composer, and over the course of his long career has created some of the most popular and often performed pieces for vocal ensemble. All 22 tracks on this collection performed by The Cambridge Singers, the choir which Rutter founded back in 1981, the tracks range from the joyous "Shepherd's pipe carol" of 1966 to the 1995 setting of Philip Sidney's poem "My true love hath my hear" from Birthday Madrigals. The disc opens with one of Rutter's best-known works, the timeless "For the beauty of the earth" and also includes his settings of Psalm 23 and "All things bright and beautiful"--popular with choirs and audiences alike--as well as two movements each from his Magnificat and Requiem. Most tracks are accompanied by the City of London Orchestra, breathing new life into works which are often heard only with piano accompaniment. The perfect gift for Christmas! | 
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Peter Colman-Wright (baritone), Robin Leggate (tenor), Elizabeth Connell (soprano), Janice Watson (soprano), Sarah Fox (soprano), Alan Opie (baritone), Pamela Helen Stephen (mezzo-soprano) & James Gilchrist (tenor) City of London Sinfonia & Tiffin Boys Choir, Richard Hickox Following the success of his recent performance of the opera at London’s Cadagon Hall, the seasoned Britten performer Richard Hickox has committed the composer’s rarely recorded Owen Wingrave to disc. Only one rival CD recording is available at present. Commissioned by BBC television in 1966, the work is something of a Cinderella among Britten’s operas, despite its imaginative, closely knit score. One possible reason is that it was composed for television rather than the theatre. Like its 1954 predecessor, The Turn of the Screw, Owen Wingrave is based on a ghost story by Henry James. Britten read the story while he was working on The Turn of the Screw, and even then conceived the idea of setting it as an opera. The music employs the relatively spare textures that Britten adopted in his later years. “Richard Hickox's command of the score...banishes once and for all the idea that the work was a mere appendix to the composer's operatic career: its pacifist theme was a central one to Britten's creative being, and he invested the opera with all the musical richness and textural originality of an unrivalled master of the medium, best expressed here in the playing of the City of London Sinfonia, which is wonderfully alive.” The Telegraph, 14th June 2008 “This excellent recording by Hickox and the City of London Sinfonia conjures shimmering life into oft-ignored episodes of brilliant musical characterisation. The stand-out in a first-class cast is James Gilchrist's Lechmere, full of eager innocence, loyalty and vim.” The Times, 14th June 2008 **** “Hickox and his cast make the strongest possible case for the opera: Peter Coleman-Wright’s eloquent, idealistic Owen might seem mature casting, but there are fine cameos from Alan Opie (Owen’s tutor), Robin Leggate (the General) and James Gilchrist (Lechmere). Pamela Helen Stephen’s Kate is not as bitchy as Janet Baker’s, Elizabeth Connell’s Miss Wingrave not quite as formidable as Sylvia Fisher’s strident, domineering portrait, but both sing well.” Sunday Times, 8th June 2008 “Hickox's excellent cast boasts some supreme exponents. Hickox draws haunting colours and chordings from his City of London Sinfonia, and the recording is flawlessly presented.” BBC Music Magazine, July 2008 **** “The new set… becomes the first recording in any medium to do the work full musical and dramatic justice. It should also satisfy the curiosity of those who wonder why its devotees hail Wingrave as Britten's greatest completed opera.” Gramophone Magazine, September 2008 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox "Keenly felt, emotional reading…performance is passionate… " BBC Music Magazine | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Roderick Williams, Yvonne Kenny, Claire Rutter, Jean Rigby, Anne Collins, Robin Leggate, Blake Fischer City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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The Cambridge Singers, City of London Sinfonia, John Rutter | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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The Cambridge Singers, The King's Singers, City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Nicolas Rimmer (organ) Choir of Clare College Cambridge, City of London Sinfonia, Timothy Brown “Naxos continues its conquest of Cambridge's college choirs and finds that from Clare College on excellent form. I suspect this will be one of those Naxos recordings that sells by the ten thousand rather than merely the thousand.” Gramophone | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Alan Opie (baritone), Alastair Miles (bass), Ameral Gunson (mezzo-soprano), Catherine Pierard (soprano), Donald Maxwell (baritone), Jean Rigby (contralto), Nigel Robson (tenor), Patricia Rozario (soprano) City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Field, Jones, Davies, Earle, London Symphony Chorus; City of London Sinfonia, Hickox | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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