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Stephen Cleoburys 37-year tenure as director of music at Kings College Cambridge ensured the most famous choir in the world maintained the high standards set by his illustrious predecessors, David Willcocks & Philip Ledger. Cleobury expanded the repertory of the choir and enhanced its global reputation through more frequent tours and television broadcasts. Under his direction, the choir set down a wonderful legacy of recordings, enriched by the chapels legendary acoustic. This new edition serves as a wonderful companion to the David Willcocks Edition released in 2015.
Tracklist:
CD 1
1. TALLIS Spem in allium (40-part motet), Lamentations etc.
CD 2
1. VICTORIA Mass & Motet O quam gloriosum; PALESTRINA Mass & Motet Tues Petrus
CD 3
1. LASSUS Three Masses Missa Vinum Bonum (Good Wine Mass), Missa Triste depart, Missa Quandio pensal martire
CD 4
1. GABRIELI The Glory of Venice
2. Philip Jones Brass Ensemble
CD 5
1. VIVALDI Dixit Dominus; Beatus Vir
2. Isobel Buchanan, Jennifer Smith, Helen Watts, Ian Partridge, John Shirley-Quirk, English Chamber Orchestra
CD 6
1. HANDEL Dixit Dominus; Laudate pueri Dominum
2. Isobel Buchanan, Ann Mackay, Michael Chance, William Kendall, Henry Herford, English Chamber Orchestra
CD 78
1. HANDEL Messiah (1752 Version 1)
2. Lynne Dawson, Hilary Summers, John Mark Ainsley, Alastair Miles, The Brandenburg Consort
CD 910
1. HANDEL Israel in Egypt
2. Ian Bostridge, Michael Chance, Susan Gritton, Stephen Varcoe, The Brandenburg Consort
CD 11
1. MOZART Mass in C Minor, K139/47a (Waisenhaus-Messe), Mass in C Major, K257 (Credo-Messe)
2. Susanne Mentzer, Bernadette Manca di Nissa, Neil Mackie, Stephen Roberts, English Chamber Orchestra
CD 12
1. MOZART Masses Coronation Mass, K317; Missa Solemnis, K337
2. Margaret Marshall, Ann Murray, Rogers Covey-Crump, David Wilson-Johnson, English Chamber Orchestra
CD 13
1.HEAR MY PRAYER Choral music by Mendelssohn & Brahms
CD 14
1. VERDI Quattro pezzi sacri (Four Sacred Pieces)
2. Cambridge University Music Society, London Philharmonic Orchestra
CD 15
1. BRITTEN A Ceremony of Carols*; Rejoice in the Lamb; A Boy was Born
2. Rachel Masters, harp*
CD 16
1. A Celebration of Herbert Howells incl. Collegium Regale
CD 17
1. MAXWELL DAVIES Solstice of Light; Five Carols; Hymn to the Word of God
CD 18
1. HOLY, HOLY, HOLY 16 Favourite Hymns
CD 19
1. O COME ALL YE FAITHFUL 16 Favourite Christmas Carols
CD 20
1. THE KINGS COLLECTION includes Song for Athene; Miserere; Panis Angelicus; Zadok The Priest; Jesu, Joy of Mans Desiring
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