Choir of Girton College Cambridge – Marc’Antonio Ingegneri Vol. 4 Missa Gustate et videte & Motets for Holy Week & Easter (2024) [24Bit-96kHz] FLAC [PMEDIA] ⭐️
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Trinity College Choir, Cambridge & Stephen Layton – Mäntyjärvi: Choral Music (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:10:54 minutes | 2,67 GB | Genre: Classical
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The stylistic pluralism which informs so much contemporary choral writing pays rich dividends in the work of Jaakko Mäntyjärvi—a thrilling programme of some exciting, accessible, contemporary music.
Read moreThe Choir of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, David Skinner – Vinders: Missa Myns liefkens bruyn ooghen & Missa Fors seulement (2023)
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Jheronimus Vinders (fl.1525/6) is best known for the oft-recorded lament on the death of Josquin Desprez (d.1521), O mors inevitabilis, which has led many to presume that he was a disciple or even a pupil of the great master.
Now that his surviving works have recently been published in a modern edition, we are better able to place him among his contemporaries. He belongs to a rather small group of Flemish musicians who form the link between the Josquin generation and that of the mid-sixteenth century, featuring composers such as Clemens non Papa and Crecquillon.
He boasts a wonderfully imaginative ear with a preference for dark sonorities, and his music often surprises and delights. This is the first recording devoted to a selection of Vinders’s works along with the polyphonic models that inspired them.
Read moreChoir of Clare College, Cambridge, Dmitri Ensemble, Carolyn Sampson, Graham Ross – Ice Land: The Eternal Music (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:19:49 minutes | 1,27 GB | Genre: Classical
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Icelandic music of the last half century is the focus of this recording by the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, led by its conductor, Graham Ross. Born from his close collaboration with the native composers of the “Land of fire and ice,” this programme sets out to explore and highlight their hypnotic soundworld, instinctively leaning towards contemplation. A prime example is the touchingly beautiful Requiem by Sigurður Sævarsson, which here receives its world premiere recording.
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Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge, Andrew Nethsingha – Eastertide Evensong (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 57:05 minutes | 483 MB | Genre: Classical
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Following from Ash Wednesday, this album is the second live Evensong album from the Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge and marks the next great season of the Church’s Year, Eastertide. This cele- bration of Jesus’s resurrection also initially spans forty days, taking us up to Ascension Day, and culmi- nates on the fiftieth day with the Feast of Pentecost. Where the previous album reflected the tradition of using no organ from Ash Wednesday until the Gloria of the Easter Vigil, the instrument is fully utilised here by the Chapel’s organ scholars Glen Dempsey and James Anderson Besant.
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Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, Philip Ledger – Bernstein: Chichester Psalms – Britten: Rejoice the Lamb & Festival Te Deum (Remastered) (1974/2019)
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Founded in the fifteenth century, The Choir of King’s College, Cambridge is undoubtedly one of the world’s best known choral groups. Every Christmas Eve millions of people worldwide tune into A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, a service that has been broadcast almost every year by the BBC since 1928. While the Choir exists primarily to sing the daily services in King’s College Chapel, its worldwide fame and reputation, enhanced by its many recordings, has led to invitations to perform around the globe, and to an extensive international tour schedule.
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Britten Sinfonia, Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, Graham Ross & William Vann – Pan’s Anniversary (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:44 minutes | 1,22 GB | Genre: Classical
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In 2022, we celebrate Vaughan Williams’s 150th birthday, and the pinnacle of Albion Record’s contribution to this important milestone is this Pan’s Anniversary album, which contains five world premiere recordings.
Read moreChoir of Clare College, Cambridge, The Dmitri Ensemble, Graham Ross – Ascendit Deus: Music for Ascensiontide & Pentecost (2015)
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The Feast of the Ascension, celebrated on the 40th day of Easter, is one of the chief feasts of the Christian year, in which the resurrected Jesus was taken up to Heaven in the presence of 11 of his disciples. The Feast of Pentecost, which falls 10 days after Ascension – seven Sundays (50 days, hence the name) after Easter Sunday – commemorates in the Christian church the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles. Both feasts are rich in imagery and in musical material. Many of the Ascensiontide works in this programme set all or parts of psalm 47, whose fifth verse begins ‘God is gone up with a merry noise’. ‘Ascendit Deus’ is a 5-part setting of that verse in Latin by the English Renaissance composer Peter Philips, which leads to a triple-time ‘Alleluia’. Ralph Vaughan Williams’s ‘O clap your hands’, dating from 1920, sets the opening verses of the psalm, performed here in the composer’s expanded version for choir, organ, brass and percussion. Patrick Gowers, an alumnus of Clare College, is known mainly for his film and television scores, but his double- choir setting of ‘Viri Galilaei’ is much performed and was written for the ordination of the Bishop of Oxford at St. Paul’s Cathedral in 1987. Graham Ross’s expanded arrangement for choir, organ, brass and percussion receives its world première recording here, alongside four new works, commissioned by Graham Ross and the Choir of Clare College in 2014, also receiving their world première recordings.
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