Westminster Abbey Choir / James O'Donnell
Release Date: 02 June 2023
Label: Hyperion Records Ltd
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 034571284200
Composer/Series: Vaughan Williams, MacMillan & Tavener
Description
From established favourites by Ralph Vaughan Williams and Sir John Tavener, to recent works—including two premiere recordings—by Sir James MacMillan.
This is an outstanding programme of choral works with strong musical and historical connections to Westminster Abbey and its celebrated choir.
"This CD amply demonstrates that James O'Donnell passed on to his successor, Andrew Nethsingha, a choir in peak condition. The singing throughout is highly skilled and strongly committed. It's a demanding programme which presents the choir with a wide variety of challenges: all these challenges are successfully met." – MusicWeb International
BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE CHORAL AND SONG CHOICE, AUGUST 2023
"This, apparently his last recording at the Abbey [O'Donnell], sustains the remarkably high standards he and his choir consistently achieved during his tenure. A special sense of intimate devotion suffuses the opening Kyrie of Vaughan Williams's Mass, the singing restrained but immaculately controlled technically […]. In all, a fine and unmissable farewell by O'Donnell." – BBC Music Magazine; Performance 5 STARS, Recording 5 STARS
"James O'Donnell masterminds an account of Vaughan Williams's Mass in G minor to rank alongside the finest to have come my way [...]. In sum, this classy collection will surely give lasting pleasure." – Gramophone
"[Vaughan Williams Mass in G Minor] the ebb and flow of the music is exquisitely controlled; the solo quartet emerges seamlessly from the texture and back again." – Cathedral Music
Tracklisting
Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica
Laurence Perkins
Takacs Quartet, Marc-Andre Hamelin
English National Opera Orchestra / Martyn Brabbins
The Gesualdo Six / Owain Park
Steven Osborne
Stephen Hough, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Sakari Oramo
Steven Isserlis, Philharmonia Orchestra / Paavo Jarvi
The Choir of Canterbury Cathedral; David Newsholme (director)
Kantos Chamber Choir | Ellie Slorach
Arcangelo; Jonathan Cohen
Miriam Kutrowatz; Daniel Johannsen; Damien Gastl; Arnold Schoenberg Chor; Zefiro; Alfredo Bernardin
Julia Sophie Wagner|Susanne Langner|Benjamin Glaubitz|Karsten Muller|Camerata Bachiensis
The Choir of Westminster Cathedral; Simon Johnson; Peter Stevens; Simon Johnson
The Choir of Jesus College; Benjamin Sheen
The Choir of Bath Abbey; Huw Williams
