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Tippett - Choral Images / Cleobury, BBC Singers

1 CD / Signum UK / 2007-03-06

Works: Michael Tippett: Dance, Clarion Air, madrigal for chorus; Plebs angelica, motet for double chorus; The Weeping Babe, motet for soprano & chorus; Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis (Evening Canticles), for ch...
Performers: Adams-Barbaro, Jennifer; Charlesworth, Stephen; Farrington, Iain; Feaviour, Margaret; Fox, Jacqueline; Johnston, Robert; MacIntyre, Stuart; Menna, Siân; Murgatroyd, Andrew
Conductors: Cleobury, Stephen
Ensemble: BBC Singers

When Sir Michael Tippett first worked with the BBC Singers in 1944, the experience was such that he recalled nearly 50 years later that "It...continue...

American Classics - Milken Archive - Herman Berlinski

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2006-08-29

Works: Herman Berlinski: From the World of My Father, Suite no 1, for orchestra; Shofar Service, for shofar, voice, choir, 2 trumpets & organ; Burning Bush; Symphonic Visions for orchestra
Performers: Bowers-Broadbent, Christopher; Christopher, Ted; Ghigi, James; Harbach, Barbara; Keavy, Stephen; Roseman, Tim
Conductors: Schwarz, Gerard; Itai, Avner
Ensemble: Barcelona Symphony Orchestra; BBC Singers; Seattle Symphony Orchestra

Herman Berlinski-whose colorful life included musical development in Leipzig and Paris, a stint in the French Foreign Legion, and a distinguished career as a composer,...continue...

Davies: One star, at last; Tavener, etc / Cleobury, Quinney

1 CD / Signum UK / 2005-11-04

Works: Bo Holten: Nowell sing we now; Steve Martland: Carols (3), for chorus; Carl Rütti: I Wonder as I Wander, for choir & organ; Judith Weir: Illuminare, Jerusalem; Judith Bingham: The Shepherd's Gif...
Performers: Adams-Barbaro, Jennifer; Bron, Eleanor; Feaviour, Margaret; Foulkes, Carolyn; Haslam, Micaela; Johnston, Robert; MacKenzie, Neil; Porter, Kim; Priestley-Smith, Pamela; Quinney, Robert
Conductors: Cleobury, Stephen
Ensemble: BBC Singers

This Christmas CD includes eight new carols several premiere recordings, and a selection of music serious and light-hearted, contemplative and joyful by some of the...continue...

Weinberg: Piano Concerto no 2, etc / Rickenbacher, et al

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2005-06-21

Works: Jacob Weinberg: Concerto for Piano no 2 in C Major; Quartet for Strings Op. 55; Shabbat Ba'aretz (Sabbath in the Holy Land Service), Op. 41
Performers: Bowers-Broadbent, Christopher; Mason, Patrick [Baritone Vocal]; Osorio, Jorge Federico
Conductors: Rickenbacher, Karl Anton; Kiesler, Kenneth
Ensemble: Barcelona Symphony Orchestra; BBC Singers

"...All of the artists involved in this release are top-drawer. Jorge Federico Osorio makes a strong case for the Piano Concerto, even though I have...continue...

American Classics - Amram: Symphony, etc / Wilkins, et al

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2004-07-01

Works: David Amram: Symphony; Shir L'erev Shabbat; The Final Ingredient
Performers: Blumberg, Jesse; Bowers-Broadbent, Christopher; Glenn, Thomas; Kent, Mark; Oliphant, Tyler; Pfaltzgraf, Brian; Phan, Nicholas; Selig, Deborah; Troxell, Richard; Wang, Pei Yi; Williams, Sarah Elizabeth
Conductors: Wilkins, Christopher; Kiesler, Kenneth
Ensemble: BBC Singers; Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra; Michigan State University Symphony Orchestra

David Amram is celebrated as one of America's most adventurous composers. 'Songs of the Soul' is a passionate affirmation of life with all of its...continue...

American Classics - Ben-Amots: Celestial Dialogues, etc

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2004-04-01

Works: Ofer Ben-Amots: Hashkivenu-Song of the Angels, a short choral cycle for chorus & organ; Celestial Dialogues, for voice (cantor), clarinet, percussion & strings; Shtetl Songs, for voice & piano; Psalm...
Performers: Barcelona Symphony Orchestra; BBC Singers; Ben-Ze'ev, Re'ut; Bowers-Broadbent, Christopher; Hladik, Petr; Kiesler, Kenneth; Krakauer, David; Lee, Richard; Mikeska, Rostislav; Mizrahi, Alberto; Musto,...
Conductors: Kiesler, Kenneth; Rickenbacher, Karl Anton; Seinerova, Eva; Seinerov, Eva
Ensemble: Barcelona Symphony Orchestra; BBC Singers; Permonik Children's Chorus

'Celestial Dialogues' combines two great Jewish musical traditions: a klezmer clarinet solo - driving from the haunting virtuoso typical of traditional eastern European Jewish bands...continue...
Personnel: Alberto Mizrahi (cantor); David Krakauer (clarinet); John Musto (piano); Chris Bowers Broadbent (organ); Rostislav Mikeska, Petr Hladik (percussion).

Recording information: Karvina,...continue...

American Classics - Bernstein-A Jewish Legacy / Adler, et al

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2003-10-01

Works: Leonard Bernstein: The Firstborn, incidental music for voice & chorus (withdrawn); Invocation and Trance, for voice & orchestra (or 2 pianos) (from "Dybbuk"); Psalm 148, for voice & piano; Rinah, Heb...
Performers: Barr, Jean; Blochwitz, Hans-Peter; Bowers-Broadbent, Christopher; Boyd, Bonita; Gnage, Patrick; Gottlieb, Jack; Miller, Aaron; Reaux, Angelina; Smith, Jason; Snyder, Barry [Piano]; Sokol, Michael; St...
Conductors: Adler, Samuel; Itai, Avner
Ensemble: ; BBC Singers; Rochester Singers

"Leonard Bernstein had a deep understanding of the emotional substance of music, and this understanding is present in every piece on this recording. It is...continue...

American Classics - Introducing American Jewish Music

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2003-09-01

Works: Dave Brubeck: Gates of Justice; Leonard Bernstein: Hashkiveniu; Anonymous: Hudl Mitn Shtrudl; Darius Milhaud: Études for String Quartet, Op. 442; Service sacré, Op. 279; Julius Chajes: ...
Performers: Adler, Bruce; Bloch, Robert; Blochwitz, Hans-Peter; Bowers-Broadbent, Christopher; Clement, Richard; Feldon, Barbara; Feldshuh, Tovah; Fisk, Eliot; Guttman, Jim; Jolley, David; Krakauer, David; Marti...
Conductors: ; Gloyd, Russell; Itai, Avner; Jaffe, Elli; Levi, Yoel; Papadopoulos, Marios; Schwarz, Gerard; Wirth, Gerald; Levin, Neil; Cullen, Joseph
Ensemble: Academy of St. Martin in the Fields; Baltimore Choral Arts Society; Barcelona Symphony Orchestra; BBC Singers; Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra; Coro Hebraeico; Czech Philharmonic Orchestra; Dave Brub...

The Milken Archive of American Jewish Music is a vast recorded panorama of the rich body of Jewish music, both sacred and secular, that has...continue...

James Galway's Christmas Carol / Royal Philharmonic

1 CD / RCA Records / 1997-09-22

Works: Johann Sebastian Bach: Suite for Orchestra no 3 in D major, BWV 1068; Sheep may safely graze (after Bach's The Hunt Cantata, BWV 208); Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248; Charles Gounod: Ave Maria; Franz Xa...
Performers: Birch, John; Galway, James
Conductors: Galway, James; Griffiths, Barry
Ensemble: BBC Singers; Canterbury Children's Choir; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Stainer: Crucifixion / Kay, Hill, George, BBC Singers, et al

1 CD / Chandos Records / 1997-04-22

Works: John Stainer: God so loved the world
Performers: BBC Singers; George, Michael; Hill, Martyn; Margaret Phillips, Margaret [Organ]; Singers, Leith Hill Festival
Conductors: Kay, Brian
Ensemble: BBC Singers

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Stainer's Crucifixion unfolds with a seamless ease, never jolting the listener with gratuitous theatricality or the type of rhetorical intensity which the...continue...