Roy, David

Spratling: Choral Music / Rennert, Bullock, Chadwell, et al

1 CD / SOMM / 2011-10-11

Works: Huw Spratling: Mass of the Holy Spirit; Sinfonietta; Sonatina for Harp; O salutaris hostia; Tantum ergo; O magnum mysterium; In paradisum
Performers: Alder, Stephen; Atkinson, Lynton; Bullock, Susan; Carter, Deborah; Chadwell, Tracey; Day Lewis, Richard; Dyball, Jeffrey; Furstenheim, Richard; Hatton, John; Newnham, Caryll; Pott, Charles; Roy, Davi...
Conductors: Rennert, Jonathan
Ensemble: Parnassus Ensemble

A Mother's Love - Music for Mary / Christophers, The Sixteen

1 CD / Decca / 2008-03-11

Works: Edvard Grieg: Ave maris stella, EG 150; William Cornysh: Ave Maria mater Dei; Josquin Desprez: Gaude virgo, mater Christi, motet for 4 parts; Anton Bruckner: Tota pulchra es, WAB 46; Camille Saint-Sa...
Performers: Arnold, Jonathan; Berridge, Simon; Cooper, Julie; Davidson, Grace; Dobell, Mark; Dougan, Eamonn; Dunkley, Sally; Jones, Timothy; Outram, Rebecca; Roy, David; Unwin, William
Conductors: Christophers, Harry
Ensemble: The Sixteen

Britain’s best-selling choir of the 21st Century, The Sixteen, releases a new album of music inspired by the Virgin Mary. Harry Christophers, the most prolific...continue...

The Christmas Collection

3 CD / Coro / 2007-09-04

Works: William Walton: Make we joy now in this Fest, carol arrangement for chorus (Christmas Carols no 1); Kenneth Leighton: Carols (3), Op. 25; Peter Racine Fricker: A Babe Is Born; Edmund Rubbra: The Virg...
Performers: Birchall, Simon [Bass Baritone Vocals]; Burrows, Peter; Carwood, Andrew; Clarke, Fiona; Crabtree, Libby; Dean, Ruth; Dunkley, Sally; Forbes, Patricia; Hodges, Christopher; Hoffnung, Benedict; Jeffrey...
Conductors: Christophers, Harry
Ensemble: ; The Sixteen (Choir)

Gramophone Magazine
Performed with every virtue and every grace including fresh, firm tone, uncanny precision and the finest possible control of grades and shades of volume.
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Music from Magdalen - Sheppard, Davy, Mason / Christophers

1 CD / Coro / 2007-05-08

Works: Plainchant: Magnificat Antiphon--Inclita sancte (Mode 1); Magnificat antiphon-- In diebus illis (Mode 7); John Sheppard: Magnificat a.4 (Mode 1); O happy dames; Laudem dicite Deo, for five voices; In...
Performers: Arnold, Jonathan; Beer, Stuart; Harvey, Peter Harvey; Oxley, James; Roy, David
Conductors: Christophers, Harry
Ensemble: The Magdalen Collection

Magdalen College, oxford was a center of excellence in the sixteenth century, with three of the era's greatest composers-John Sheppard, Richard Davy, and John Mason-holding...continue...

Britten: Death in Venice / Hickox, Chance, Langridge

2 CD / Chandos Records / 2005-03-22

Works: Benjamin Britten: Death in Venice, opera, Op. 88
Performers: Adams-Barbaro, Jennifer; Allen, Ildiko; Batchelor, Julia; Birchall, Simon [Bass Baritone Vocals]; Bowley, John; Chance, Michael; Charlesworth, Stephen; Charrier, Paul; Fallas, Richard; Feaviour, Marg...
Conductors: Hickox, Richard
Ensemble: BBC Singers

"...Maybe Richard Hickox is getting bored with praise, but here's some more. This is another major achievement for him, taped last year in Blackheath Concert...continue...

James Macmillan: Birds of Rhiannon / Macmillan, BBC Singers

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2002-09-24

Works: James MacMillan: Magnificat, for chorus & orchestra; Nunc dimittis, for chorus & orchestra; Exsultet, symphonic fanfare (2 versions); Màiri, for a cappella chorus; The Gallant Weaver, for a capp...
Performers: Birchall, Simon [Bass Baritone Vocals]; Bourne, Richard; Charlesworth, Stephen; Davidson, Geoffrey; Feaviour, Margaret; Haslam, Micaela; Johnston, Robert; MacKenzie, Neil; Meynell, Eleanor; Murgatroy...
Conductors: MacMillan, James
Ensemble: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra; BBC Singers

This new CD contains premiere recordings of James MacMillan's music for chorus and orchestra. The 'Birds of Rhiannon' defies easy classification. MacMillan calls it a...continue...