English Concert Choir

Purcell Collection - Dido and Aeneas; King Arthur; The Fairy Queen; Hail! Bright Cecilia; sacred works; songs; chamber music

16 CD / Brilliant Classics / 2013-03-26

Conductors:
Ensemble: Accademia Bizantina; English Concert Choir; Gabrieli Consort and Players; Musica ad Rhenum; New English Voices

With its veritable A - star list of performers and ensembles, this is the perfect compilation for anyone wishing to explore Purcell's music in greater...continue...

Handel Gold - Bartoli, Fleming, Kozená, Terfel, Villazón, Te Kanawa, Sutherland, et al

2 CD / Decca / 2009-04-14

Works: George Frederick Handel: Giulio Cesare, HWV 17; Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno; MEDLEY; Alcina; Ariodante; Atalanta; Giulio Cesare; Tamerlano; Il Floridante, HWV 14; Muzio Scevola, HWV 13; Jep...
Performers: Baker, Janet, Dame [Mezzo-soprano Vocal]; Bartoli, Cecilia; Berganza, Teresa [Mezzo Soprano Vocals]; Bumbry, Grace; Domingo, Placido; Fleming, Renee; Fuller, Albert; Gritton, Susan; Horne, Marilyn [M...
Conductors: Rose, Barry; Minkowski, Marc; Viotti, Marcello; Bonynge, Richard; Bicket, Harry; McCreesh, Paul; Curtis, Alan; Dunn, Thomas; Gardiner, John Eliot; Boult, Adrian; Preston, Simon; Mackerras, Charles, S...
Ensemble: ; Academy of St. Martin in the Fields; Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chorus; Baroque Chamber Orchestra; Bologna Teatro Comunale Orchestra; Cappella Coloniensis; Dresden Staatskapelle; English B...

This 2-CD set celebrates the 250th anniversary of Handel's death and includes selections from Handel's most beautiful operas, oratorios, arias and choruses. This definitive greatest...continue...

Angels - Christmas with the Great Sopranos / Bonney, Fleming, Te Kanawa, Price, Sutherland, Tebaldi, et al

1 CD / Decca / 2008-10-14

Works: Adolphe Adam: Cantique de Noël for voice & orchestra ("Minuit, Chrétiens," "O Holy Night"); Franz Schubert: Ave Maria; Gabriel Fauré: Requiem, Op. 48; Christmas Traditional: Good King ...
Performers: Aveling, Valda; Bonney, Barbara; Clark, Patricia; Fleming, Renee; Freni, Mirella; Gheorghiu, Angela; McNair, Sylvia; Price, Leontyne; Steele-Perkins, Crispian [Trumpet]; Sutherland, Joan, Dame; Te Ka...
Conductors: Karajan, Herbert von; Delfs, Andreas; Dutoit, Charles; Bonynge, Richard; Marin, Ion; Sinopoli, Giuseppe; Pinnock, Trevor; Marriner, Sir Neville; Rose, Barry; Guadagno, Anton; Gardiner, John Eliot
Ensemble: Academy of St. Martin in the Fields; English Baroque Soloists; English Concert Choir; London Philharmonic Orchestra; Montreal Symphony Orchestra; New Philharmonia Orchestra; Philharmonia Orchestra; R...

Celebrate Christmas with some of the most beautiful melodies written for the holidays, sung by the most gorgeous voices. With opera stars both past and...continue...

Christmas In Rome / McCreesh/Gabrieli Consort & Players [DVD]

1 DVD Video / Deutsche Grammophon / 2007-11-13

Works: Antonio Vivaldi: Gloria in D major, RV 588; Tomás Luis de Victoria: O magnum mysterium; Quem vidistis, pastores; Giovanni Palestrina: Hodie Christus natus est; Missa "Hodie Christus natus est"; ...
Conductors: McCreesh, Paul; Pinnock, Trevor
Ensemble: English Concert; English Concert Choir; Gabrieli Consort; Gabrieli Players

An inspiring concert of Renaissance and Baroque masterworks. Among the pieces performed are Palestrina's 'Christmas Mass' and Vivaldi's 'Gloria'. Paul McCreesh conducts the Gabrieli Consort...continue...
Picture Format: NTSC, Color
Country of Origin: USA
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Trio - Handel: Belshazzar / Pinnock, Rolfe-Johnson, et al

3 CD / Deutsche Grammophon Import / 2004-06-15

Works: George Frederick Handel: Belshazzar, HWV 61
Performers: Auger, Arleen; Bowman, James [Countertenor Vocal]; Coe, Jane; Gooding, Julia; Ledingham, Iain; Pinnock, Trevor; Robbin, Catherine; Robertson, Bernard; Robertson, Nicholas; Rolfe Johnson, Anthony [Ten...
Conductors: Pinnock, Trevor
Ensemble: English Concert Choir

This set, Trevor Pinnock's recommended recording of Belshazzar includes an all-star cast and has a full and well-balanced sound....continue...

Purcell: Dido & Aeneas, King Arthur, Dioclesian, etc/Pinnock

5 CD / Deutsche Grammophon Import / 2004-03-09

Works: Henry Purcell: Dido and Aeneas, Z 626; King Arthur, or The British Worthy, Z 628; Music in "The Prophetess; Or, The History of Dioclesian" (after John Fletcher and Philip Massinger,; Timon of Athens,...
Performers: Agnew, Paul [Tenor Vocals]; Ainsley, John Mark; Alder, Stephen; Amps, Kym; Argenta, Nancy; Bannatyne-Scott, Brian; Birchall, Simon [Bass Baritone Vocals]; Chance, Michael; Davidson, Angus [Counterten...
Conductors: Pinnock, Trevor
Ensemble: English Concert; English Concert Choir

The Classic Christmas Album / Carreras, Norman, Domingo, etc

1 CD / Deutsche Grammophon Import / 1997-10-14

Works: Jean Joseph Mouret: Symphony de Fanfare; Adolphe-Charles Adam: Minuit, Chrétiens "O holy night"; Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a; Traditional: O Tannenbaum; Wolfgang Amadeu...
Performers: Argerich, Martha; Barenboim, Daniel; Battle, Kathleen; Brewer, Edward; Carreras, José; Christ, Wolfram; Domingo, Placido; Economou, Nicolas; Läubin, Bernhard; Läubin, Hannes; Lä...
Conductors: Adler, Kurt Herbert; Karajan, Herbert von; Harrer, Uwe Christian; Abbado, Claudio; Daniel, Paul; ; Marin, Ion; Levine, James; Sanchez, Damian; Gardiner, John Eliot; Giulini, Carlo Maria; Jung, Matthi...
Ensemble: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; Bilbao Choral Society; Dresden Kreuz Choir; English Baroque Soloists; English Chamber Orchestra; English Concert; English Concert Choir; Laredo Choral Salvé; Lon...

Dies Irae - The Essential Choral Collection

2 CD / Deutsche Grammophon / 1997-09-16

Performers: Baltsa, Agnes; Baniewicz, Wiera; Jones, Della; Mathis, Edith; Reichenberg, David; Robson, Nigel; Sporsen, Torgny; Steele-Perkins, Crispian; Sutherland, Joan, Dame
Conductors: Giulini, Carlo Maria; Abbado, Claudio; Böhm, Karl; Preston, Simon; Kubelik, Rafael; Sinopoli, Giuseppe; Ozawa, Seiji; Pinnock, Trevor; Richter, Karl; Markevitch, Igor; Wordsworth, Barry; Mehta, ...
Ensemble: Ambrosian Opera Chorus; Ambrosian Singers; Bavarian Radio Chorus; Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra; BBC Concert Orchestra; Berlin Deutsche Oper Chorus; Berlin Deutsche Oper Orchestra; Berlin Philhar...

Mozart: Coronation Mass, etc / Pinnock, English Concert

1 CD / Deutsche Grammophon / 1994-11-22

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Mass no 15 for vocal soloists, chorus & orchestra in C major ("Coronation"), K. 317; Exsultate jubilate, K 165 (158a); Laudate Dominum
Performers: Bonney, Barbara; Gadd, Stephen; MacDougall, Jamie
Conductors: Pinnock, Trevor
Ensemble: English Concert; English Concert Choir

Haydn: Missa Sancti Nicolai, Theresienmesse / Pinnock

1 CD / Deutsche Grammophon Import / 1993-09-13

Works: Franz Joseph Haydn: Mass for soloists, chorus, organ & orchestra in B flat major ("Theresienmesse"), H. 22/12; Missa Sancti Nicolai, for soloists, chorus, organ & orchestra in G major ("Nikolaimesse"...
Performers: Argenta, Nancy; Miles, Alastair [Bass Vocals]; Schade, Michael
Conductors: Pinnock, Trevor
Ensemble: English Concert Choir

BBC Music Magazine
Although the chorus has less presence than on Hickox's recordings, Trevor Pinnock brings a sense of awe to the Kyrie and Agnus Dei....continue...
Recording information: Henry Wood Hall, London (09/1992)....continue...

Haydn: Stabat Mater / Pinnock, Rolfe-Johnson, Rozario et al

1 CD / Deutsche Grammophon Import / 1990-07-02

Works: Franz Joseph Haydn: Stabat Mater, H 20 bis
Performers: Rolfe Johnson, Anthony [Tenor Vocal]; Standage, Simon
Conductors: Pinnock, Trevor
Ensemble: English Concert Choir

Recording information: Tooting, All Saints' Church, London (07/1989)....continue...