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'British Choirs on the Net' Recommended Recordings

Elgar - The Kingdom Elgar - Coronation Ode Elgar - Light of Life Elgar - The Apostles Dream of Gerontius - Conducted by Sir John Barbirolli with Dame Janet Baker. Also includes Sea Pictures
Rutter - Rquiem Monteverdi Vespers 1610 A series of tragedies profoundly affected Finzi in his early years. His father died just before his eighth birthday, and by the time he was eighteen he had lost his three elder brothers and his much-loved teacher, Ernest Farrar. This dreadful sequence of events, and the appalling losses of the First World War that formed the backdrop to his adolescence, gave Finzi an acute awareness of the impermanence of life, further heightened when at the age of fifty he discovered that he was dying of leukaemia. These experiences may well explain the underlying hint of melancholy in his music, heard particularly in the Ode Intimations of Immortality. Wordsworth’s Ode, subtitled ‘from recollections of early childhood’ is a lament for the lost joys and intuitive wonder of childhood. Finzi’s music springs from his love of literature and the English countryside and his instinctive feeling for words is exceptional, the natural speech-rhythms and cadences of his musical lines complementing perfectly each chosen text. John Tavener - Lament for Jerusalem Pergolesi - Stabat Mater & Salve Regina
Rossini - Petite Messe Solennelle - This recording under Wolfgang Sawallish is regarded by some, particularly the Penguin Guide, as the finest on record. It has been in my collection for many years and I still have a Box Set of Vinyl LPs issued by Eurodisc. It will not be to everybody’s taste, particularly those seeking a more operatic rendition, but with Kari Lovaas, Brigitte Fassbender, Dietrich Fischer Dieskau and Peter Schreier, you get singing and word pointing of the highest order and a performance of simplicity and sensitively felt piety. Howard Goodall - Choral Works Eric Whiteacre - Cloudburst (Polyphony - Stephen Layton) Walton - Belshazzar's Feast Mozart - Masses (Box Set)
 G F Handel - Chandos Anthems G F Handel - Coronation Anthems   John Rutter Collection O Magnum Mysterium

John Stainer - Crucifixion

 Carl Orff - Carmina Burana MacMillan - Choral Works The Choirboys
Tallis - Spem in Alium Jonathan Willcocks - Choral Music Cantamus - Cantamus Girls Choir Jonathan Harvey - Choral Music Sea Change - Choral Music of Richard Rodney Bennett (conducted by John Rutter)
Brahms - A German Requiem Tippett - Child of Our Time Karl Jenkins- Adiemus - Songs of Sanctuary John Adams - On the Transmigration of Souls The Sixteen - Rennaissance
John Tavener - New Works Gorecki - Choral Music Maxwell Davies - Sacred Choral Music Rossini - Messe Solennelle Haydn - The Seasons
Karl Jenkins - The Armed Man - A Mass for Peace The Sixteen - Crown, Court and Goldenage of Portuguese Music Mendelssohn Elijah Bach - St Matthew Passion - McCreesh Vaughan Williams - Choral Music
Durufle Requiem  Haydn - Creation - Conducted by Sir Simon Rattle  Beethoven - Choral Symphony Faure Requiem Hawes - Blue in Blue
Berstein -Chichester Psalms Verdi - Requiem Handel Messiah Bruckner - Motets; Dvorak - Mass in D Beethoven Mass in C
St John Passion conducted by Sir John Eliot Gardiner Bach - B Minor Mass 20th Century British Choral Music - Ionian Singers Kodaly & Janacek Essential Tallis Scholars
Cambridge Singers - Portrait John Rutter - Requiem New World Symphonies (Latin American Baroque Music) - Ex Cathedra Mozart Requiem & Coronation Mass Rachmaninov - Litury of St John Chrysostom
Rachmaninov - Vespers R Vaughan Williams - Towards the Unknown Region The Choral Music of Kenneth Leighton Sir Arthur Sullivan - The Prodigal Son Cathedral Voices

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