Choir of Merton College, Oxford – On Christmas Night: Carols from Merton (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:30 minutes | 1,15 GB | Genre: Classical
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Benjamin Nicholas and his Choir of Merton College Oxford present a starlit celebration of Advent choral music and Christmas carols from composers old and new.
Favourites including Of the Father’s Heart Begotten and In the Bleak Midwinter sit excitingly alongside new commissions and contemporary composers including Kerensa Briggs, Roxanna Panufnik, and Bulgarian-British composer Dobrinka Tabakova.
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Choir of Merton College, Oxford, Benjamin Nicholas & Britten Sinfonia – Orchestral Anthems: Elgar | Finzi | Dyson | Howells (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 55:06 minutes | 948 MB | Genre: Classical
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For the Choir of Merton College, Oxford’s first collaboration with Britten Sinfonia, Benjamin Nicholas has brought together a collection of sacred works from the first half of the twentieth century.A little-known fact is that these stalwarts of the English repertory were either originally intended to be heard with orchestra, or subsequently orchestrated by their composer or a close colleague.
Written for enthronements, coronations and the nation’s grandest choral festivals, these national ‘standards’ arehere brought back to life, their orchestral accompaniments affording them the richness, pomp and majesty associated with that epoch.
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