Discography
Compiled by Len Mullenger (July 1997)
This discography was compiled from a number of catalogues and was believed to be accurate at the time, although the Trust, or Len Mullenger cannot be held liable for the consequence of any errors. The Trust is working towards updating the information currently.
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BBC RADIO CLASSICS
The Forgotten Rite
(with: Elgar: Introduction and Allegro for Strings, Grania and Diarmid
(excepts), Bax: Mediterranean, Holst: Hammersmith, Hadley:
One Morning in Spring, Bliss: Introduction and Allegro, )
BBC Symphony, London Philharmonic, Philharmonia Orchestras
Conductor: Sir Adrian Boult
BBC Radio Classics BBCRD9127
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CARLTON CLASSICS
Concertino pastorale
A Downland Suite – Elegy;Minuet
The Holy Boy
(with Vaughan Williams: Five Variants of “Dives and Lazarus”. Fantasia
on “Greensleeves”. Partita for Double String Orchestra.
English Sinfonia
John Farrer
Carlton Classics 30366 0060 -2
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CRD
British Music For Brass
Comedy Overture
(with Elgar: Severn Suite, Vaughan Williams: Henry V, Holst:
Moorside Suite)
London Collegiate Brass
conductor :James Stobart
CRD3434
Brass Ensemble Music by 20th Century British
Composers
A Downland Suite
(with: Walton: First Shoot, Tippett: Festal Brass with Blues,
Britten: Russian Funeral)
London Collegiate Brass
Conductor: James Stobart
CRD CRD 3444
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If there were dreams to sell
(with: Bridge: Isobel Clarke: Seal man, Aspidistra
Delius: Norwegian Songs (Evening Voices only) Dunhill:
Cloths of Heaven Gibbs: Five Eyes Gurney: Sleep
Holby: Jabberwocky Howells: King David, Gavotte
Come Sing and Dance Nelson: Dirty Work Quilter: Now sleeps
the crimson petal Sullivan: Orpheus with his lute Traditional:
First mercy, Little Road to Bethlehem, Monkey’s carol
Vaughan Williams: House of Life (Silent Noon only)
The Water Mill (from Four poems by Fredegond Shove) Warlock:
Fox, Jillian of Berry, Night)
Sarah Walker
Roger Vignoles (piano)
CRD CRD3473
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EMI
Piano Concerto Colin
Horsley (piano)
A Comedy Overture
London Overture
Mai-Dun
Greater Love hath no Man
Sea Fever
Songs Sacred and Profane (The Salley Gardens)*
(Janet Baker, Robert Lloyd, RPO Basil Cameron, LSO, Halle, Sir john
Barbirolli, Chichester Cathedral choir, GUS Kettering Band.)
EMI British Composer Series CDM 7647162
*also available of Janet Baker Song Recital
EMI CDM5 65009-2
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(with: Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 2 “A London Symphony”)
London Symphony Orchestra (Hallé in the Vaughan Williams)
Conductor: Sir John Barbirolli
EMI British Composers Series CDM 565109-2
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Greater Love hath no Man – motet
(with: Bainton: And I saw a new Heaven L.Berkeley: Lord is
my Shepherd Britten: Hymn of St Columba Harris: Faire is the
Heaven Harvey: I Love the Lord, One foot in Eden Leighton:
Let all the world Naylor: Vox dicentis clama Howells: Like
as the hart Walton: Set me as a seal Weir: Ascending into
Heaven Wood: Hail, gladdening light)
Kings College Chapel Choir
Christopher Hughes (organ)
Conductor: Stephen Cleobury
EMI CDC7 54418-2
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CHANDOS
A London Overture
These Things Shall Be
Greater Love hath no Man
The Holy Boy
Vexilla Regis
Epic March
Paula Bott (soprano) Teresa Shaw (mezzo) James Oxley (Tenor) Bryn
Terfel (bass-baritone) Roderick Elms (piano)
London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Richard Hickox
Chandos Enchant CHAN7074 (mid Price)
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Scherzo and Cortege
Tritons
The Forgotten Rite
Satyricon
The Overlanders
London Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Richard Hickox
Chandos CHAN 8994
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A Downland Suite (arr
J. Ireland/G. Bush)
Orchestral Poem (premiere recording)
Concertino Pastorale
Two Symphonic Studies (arr G. Bush)
London Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Richard Hickox
Chandos CHAN 9376
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A Downland Suite
The Holy Boy
Elegiac Meditation
(with Bridge: Suite for String Orchestra)
English Chamber Orchestra
Conductor: David Garforth
Chandos CHAN 8390
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A London Overture
These Things Shall be
Greater Love Hath No Man
The Holy Boy
Vexilla Regis
Epic March
Bryn Terfel baritone
London Symphony Orchestra
London Symphony Chorus
Conductor: Richard Hickox
Chandos CHAN 8879
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Piano Concerto
Legend for Piano and Orchestra
Mai-Dun
Symphonic Rhapsody
Eric Parkin piano
London Philharmonic
conductor: Bryden Thompson
Chandos CHAN 8461
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Violin Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2
Piano Trios Nos. 2 & 3
Phantasie Trio
The Holy Boy
Cello Sonata in G minor
Fantasy Sonata for clarinet and piano
Gervase de Peyer clarinet
Lydia Mordkovitch violin
Karine Georgian cello
Gwenneth Pryor piano
Ian Brown piano
Chandos CHAN 9377-8 (2CD)
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Decorations
The Almond tree
Preludes
Rhapsody
The Towing Path
Merry Andrew
Summer Evening
Piano Sonata in E minor
Eric Parkin piano
Chandos CHAN 9056
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In Those Days
London Pieces
Leaves from a Child’s Sketchbook
The Darkened Valley
Two Pieces (1921): For Remembrance, Amberley Wild
Brooks Equinox
Sonatina
Prelude in E flat
Ballade
Greenways
Eric Parkin piano
Chandos CHAN 9140
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A Sea Idyll
On a Birthday Morning
Soliloquy
Two Pieces (1924): April, Bergomask
Spring will not wait
Two pieces: February’s Child, Aubade
Ballad of London Nights
Month’s Mind
Three Pastels: A Grecian Lad, The Boy Bishop, Puck’s Birthday Columbine
Sarnia
Eric Parkin piano
Chandos CHAN 9250
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English Music for Clarinet and Piano
Fantasy Sonata
(with Finzi: Five Bagatelles, Horovitz: Sonatina, Richardson;
Roundelay, Arnold: Sonatina, Harvey, Suite on a theme of
Gershwin)
Gervase de Payer clarinet
Gwenneth Pryor piano
Chandos CHAN 8549
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English Orchestral Songs If there were
Dreams to sell
Hope the Hornblower – song
If there were Dreams to sell
(with: Butterworth: Love blows as the wind blows, Shropshire Lad
Elgar: Twilight, Pleading Finzi: Let us Garlands bring Quilter:
Shakespeare songs Vaughan Williams: House of Life (Love-sight,
Silent Noon, Heart’s Haven only)
Stephen Varcoe
City of London Sinfonia
Conductor: Richard Hickox
Chandos CHAN8743
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UNICORN
Epic March
The Overlanders
(with: Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge)
Gerald English tenor
West Australian Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: David Measham
Unicorn UKCD2062
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Geoffrey Tozer piano
(with Rubbra: Violin Concerto)
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: David Measham
Unicorn DKPCD9056
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The Holy Boy
(with: G Bush: In Praise of Mary Statham: Bells of St Chad
Dyson: Christmas Garland)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: David Willcocks
Unicorn DKPCD9057
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CONIFER
20th Century British Music for Piano and
Orchestra
Piano Concerto
Kathryn Stott piano
(with Bridge: Phantasm, Walton: Sinfonia Concertante)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Coductor: Vernon Handley
Conifer CDCF175
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My Song is love unknown – hymn
(with: Anon: Duteous Day now closes , Pange Lingua
Appleford: Lord Jesus Christ Bach: Ah Holy Jesu
Goss: Praise my Soul , St Matthew’s Passion (exc)
Carter: Lord of the Dance Davies: God be in my
Head Gibbons: Drop down slow tears Howells: All my
hope Irvine: The Lord is my Shepherd Monk: Abide
with me Parry: Jerusalem, O Praise Ye the Lord
Schutz: We plough the Fields Stainer: Love
Divine Stanford: St Patrick’s Breastplate Sullivan: Onward
Christian Soldiers Tallis: Glory to thee, my God Vaughan
Williams: English Hymnal (For all the saints) Wesley: Dear Lord
and Father, O Thou who camest)
CBSO Chorus
Peter King (organ)
Conductor: Simon Halsey
Conifer CDCF502
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DUTTON
Eileen Joyce piano
(with Moeran: Symphony)
Halle Orchestra
Conductor Leslie Heward
Dutton CDAX 8001 (recorded 1942)
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Malcom Sargent conducts English Music
A London Overture
(with: Harty: John Field Suite Coleridge Taylor: Song of Hiawatha
(excpts) Gardiner: Shepherd Fennell’s Dance Vaughan Williams:
Lark Ascending Holst: Hymn of Jesus)
Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Sir Malcolm Sargent
Dutton CDAX8012 (recorded 1944)
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Ireland plays Ireland :
Violin Sonata No. 1 in D-minor Frederick Grinke (violin); John
Ireland (piano) Violin Sonata No.2 in A-minor Albert Sammons (violin);
John Ireland (piano) Phantasie Trio in A-minor Frederick Grinke (violin);
Florence Hooton (cello); Kendall Taylor (piano) Holy Boy
Florence Hooton (cello); Lawrence Pratt (piano)
EPOCH /DUTTON CDLX 7103 [72:36]
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ALBANY
(with Holst: Hammersmith, Fugal Concerto, Franck: Chorales,
Jacob: Symphony)
European Winds
Conductor Geoffrey Brand
Albany TROY 120-2
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CHOICE RECORDINGS
Downland Suite
(with Arditi: Bacio, Bantock: Prometheus Unbound, Bliss:
Kenilworth, Coates: Three bears Suite, Elgar: Severn
Suite, Herbert: Babes in Toyland (excerpt), Herold: Zampa
(excerpt), Lear: Shylock, Mackenzie: Swallow’s Serenade,
Rimmer: Cossack, Hailstorm, Suppe: Dichter und
Bauer(excerpt), Windsor: Alpine Echoes, Gentle Zephyrs, Warrior)
Fodens Motor Works Band
Conductor Fred Mortimer
Choice CD2 BM2
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BEULAH
A Dowland Suite
(with: Elgar: Severn Suite (excpts), Bliss: Kenilworth,
Meyerbeer: Prophète (excpts), Holst: Moorside Suite,
Bath, Honour and Glory, Iles: Sing a Song, Championship Medley 3,
Homeland Melodies, Handel Messiah (Excpts),
Fodens Motor Works Band, Massesd Brass bands, Black Dyke Mills Band, Wingates
Temperence Band
Conductors: Fred Mortimer, John H. Iles, William Halliwell, Harold
Moss
Beulah IPD2
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OxRecs
The Organs of Cambridge Volume 2
A Downland Suite (excpts)
(with :Byrd: Fantasia BK13, Tomkins: Voluntary in D, Purcell:
Organ Voluntaries Z717-20,(excpts), Noordt: Psalm 24 Variations,
Buxtehude: Prelude and Fugue, BuxWV139, Böhm Chorales
(excpts), Tunder: Praeludium in G, Pachelbel: Ciaccona 1 in D,
Whitlock: Organ Sonata in C minor (excpts), Lemare: Symphony Op35
(excpts), Hindemith: Organ Sonata (excpts), Peeters: Suite
modale (excpts), Mathias: Toccata giocosa Op36/2
Organists: Anne Page, Peter Clements, Philip Rushforth, Geoffrey Webber,
Christopher Monks, Michael Phillips
OxRecs OXCD 59
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NIMBUS
A Downland Suite
(with: Holst: The Planet Suite, Perfect Fool (excpt), Elgar:
Enigma Variations, Wand of Youth Suite 2, Parry: English Suite,
Finzi: Eclogue, Bridge: There is a Willow, Delius:
Florida Suite Vaughan Williams: Wasps (excpt), Walton: Henry
V (excpt), Lennox Berkley: Serenade Op12, Britten: Sea Interludes
from Peter Grimes, Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra)
English String Orchestra
Conductor William Boughton
Nimbus NI 5450/3 (4 CD set)
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Telarc
Epic March
(with: Berlioz: Damnation of Faust (excpts), Fucik: Entry of the
Gladiators, Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance Marches (excpts), Handy:
When the Saints go Marching in, Hayman: March Medley, Sousa,
Stars and Stripes Forever, Suk: Towards a New Life, Tchaikovsky:
Festival Coronation March, J F Wagner II: Unter dem
Doppleladler, J.T. Williams: Olympic Fanfare)
Cincinnati Pops
Conductor: Erich Kunzel
Telarc CD80122
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PHILIPS
The Holy Boy
(with: Vaughan Williams: Tuba Concerto (excrpts) Elgar: Romance
,Idylle Delius: Caprice and Elegy Grainger: Youthful Rapture
Dyson: Prelude, Fantasy and Chaconne (excrpts) W.Davies: Solemn
Melody Grainger: Brigg Fair Holst Invocation C.Scott:
Pastoral and Reel)
Julian Lloyd Webber (cello)
John. Lenehan (keyboard)
J. Birch (organ)
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Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Conductor: Sir Neville Marriner
Philips 442530-2
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ASV
A London Overture
(with:Elgar: Cockaigne Vaughan Williams Studies in English Folk
Song (excpts) Holst Hammersmith )
The Philharmonia Orchestra
Conductor: Owain Arwyl Hughes
(also RPO, London Wind Orchestra, East England Orchestra
Soloists and instrumentalists: Brian Rayner Cook, Noel Coward, Daniel
Smith, Roger Vignoles, Jane Parker Smith
Conductors: Alan Barlow, Denis Wick, Malcolm Nabarro, Carroll Gibbons)
ASV CDQS6123
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Fantasy-Sonata in E flat for Clarinet and Piano
(with Vaughan Williams: Studies in English Folk Song , Vocalises
Bax: Clarinet Sonata Bliss: Pastoral , Nursery rhymes
Stanford: Clarinet Sonata)
Emma Johnson (Clarinet) Malcolm Martineau (Piano)
ASV CDDCA891
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Phantasie Trio in A minor
Piano Trios Nos 2 and 3 in E
Sextet
Holywell Ensemble
Peter Nichols (Clarinet), Kate Bailey, Kiera Lyness (Violins), Daniel Lyness
(Viola), Spike Wilson (Cello)
Miles Hewitt (Horn), Margaret Ozanne (Piano)
ASV CDDA1016
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British Cello Works – volume 2
Sonata for Cello and Piano
(with Stanford: Cello Sonata No2 Bridge: Elegy, Scherzeto)
Julian Lloyd Webber (Cello) John McCabe (Piano)
ASV CDDCA807
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The Four Seasons – Volume 4 WINTER
The Holy Boy for Cello and Piano
(with Vivaldi Concerti Op8 (exc) Prokofiev: Winter Bonfire
Debussy: Preludes (exc), Childrens Corner (exc)
Handel: Messiah (exc) Berlioz: Enfance du Christ (exc)
Traditional: Wexford Carol Britten: Ceremony of Carols (exc)
Rimsky-Korsakov: Christmas Eve (exc))
Julian Lloyd Webber (Cello) John McCabe (Piano)
ASV CDQS6116
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British Music Label
(The Forties Recording Company, 44 Challacombe, Furzton, Milton Keynes, MK4
1DP UK +44 (0) 01908 502836
Fantasy-Sonata in E flat for Clarinet and Piano
Phantasie Trio
Rhapsody
(with: Alwyn: Rhapsody for Piano Quartet Howells: Violin Sonata
No. 1 Wilson: Elegy)
Holywell Ensemble
British Music Label BML010
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Splendid British Clarinet Works
Fantasy-Sonata in E flat for Clarinet and Piano
(with: Finzi: Bagatelles Bax: Clarinet Sonata Hughes: Sonata
Capriccioso Stanford: Clarinet Sonata)
John Denman (clarinet) Paula Fan (piano)
British Music Label BML009
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Continuum
Fantasy-Sonata in E flat for clarinet and piano
(with Bax: Clarinet Sonata Finzi: Bagatelles Horovitz:
Sonatina Arnold: Clarinet Sonata)
Murray Khouri (clarinet) Peter Pettinger (piano)
Continuum CCD1038
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Herald
Fantasy-Sonata in E flat for clarinet and piano
(with Arnold: Clarinet Sonata Dunhill :Phantasy Suite Finzi:
Bagatelles Henry: Jazz Song McCabe: Clarinet Pieces)
Nicholas Carpenter (Clarinet) David McArthur (Piano)
Herald HAVPCD152
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MARCO POLO
Sonata for Cello and Piano in G Minor
(with Moeran: Cello Sonata Rubbra: Cello Sonata)
Raphael Wallfisch (Cello) John York (Piano)
Marco Polo 8 223718
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PRIORY
Greater Love Hath No Man – motet
(with: Bainton: And I saw a new heaven Bairstow: Blessed city;
heavenly Salem , Let all mortal flesh keep silence Bullock: Give us
the wings of faith Elgar: Give unto the Lord Stanford:
Psalm 23 Walker: I will lift up mine eyes Wesley: Ascribe
unto the Lord, Thou wilt keep him Wood: O thou, the central
orb)
Guildford Cathedral Choir
Peter Wright (organ)
Conductor: Andrew Millington
Priory PRCD257
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(this disc contains the complete Ireland Organ
music)
Capriccio
Holy Boy (trans. Rowley for organ)
Meditation on John Keble’s Rogationtide Hymn
Miniature Suite
Elegiac Romance
Sursum corda
Alla Marcia
(with: Bridge: Organ Pieces H63 (Adagio in E major) Darke:
Meditation on Brother James’ Air Dyson: Voluntary of praise
in D major Harris: Flourish for an occasion Lang: Tuba
Tune Stanford: Postlude in D minor)
Johnathan Bielby (The 1913 Binns organ of Rochdale Town Hall (restored
1978))
Priory PRCD298
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British Organ Music from Bath Abbey
Capriccio
Elegiac Romance
(with Bridge: Organ Pieces H63 Grainger: Irish Tune from County
Derry Hollins: Concert Overture in C minor, Intermezzo in D
flat Whitlock: Extemporizations)
Peter King
Priory PRCD335
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My Song is love Unknown – hymn
(with: Anon: Be Thou my vision, Come Holy Ghost, God of Abraham,
Praise, All Creatures of our God and King Croft:
O Worship the King Dykes: Eternal Father strong to save, Holy Holy
Holy , Praise to the Holiest Goss: Praise my soul
Thomas Haweis: City of God Howells: All my
hope Monk: Angel Voices Nicholson: We sing the
Praise of Him Parry: Dear Lord and father, God is love,
O praise Ye the Lord Pritchard: Hallelujah! Sing to Jesus
Schofield: Day thou gavest Smart: Through all the changing
scenes of life Stainer: Come, Thou long expected Jesus
Taylor: Glorious things of Thee are spoken Vaughan Williams:
English Hymnal (Come Down O love Divine)
St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral Choir
Peter Backhouse (organ)
Conductor: D Townhill
Priory PRCD376
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Benedictus in F
Te Deum
(with Anon: Venite, Psalm 24 Finzi: God is gone up, Head
that once was crowned Messiaen: Ascension (exc) Stanford: Motets
(exc) )
Lincoln Cathedral Choir Andrew Post (organ)
Conductor: Colin Walsh
Priory PRCD478
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Communion Service in C
(with: Darke: Communion Service in F Harwood: Communion Service
in A flat Leighton: Missa Brevis Oldroyd: Mass of the Quiet
Hour Wood: Short Communion Service)
Wakefield Cathedral Choir
Johnathan Bielby, Keith Wright (organ)
Priory PRCD341
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The Hills
(with: Bliss: Aubade, Bax: What is it like? Lennox Berkeley:
Spring at this hour Bliss: Cradle song for a new born child
Fritz: White-flowering days Howells: Inherit Mathias:
Royal Garland Rawsthorne: Canzonet Rubbra: Salutation
Tippett Dance, Clarion Air Vaughan Williams: Silence and
Music
Bristol Bach Choir
Valerie Shelton (piano)
Conductor: Glyn Jenkins
Priory PRCD352
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Te Deum in F
(with: Boyce: Te Deum and Jubilate in C Ferguson:
Jubilate Gardner: Jubilate Gibbons: Te Deum
Hopkins: Thanksgiving Te Deum Howells:
Collegium Regale Stanford: Te Deum laudamus, Jubilate Deo
Vann: Te Deum Wood: Te Deum in E
Rochester Cathedral Choir
Roger Sayer (organ)
Conductor: Barry Ferguson
Priory PRCD433
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Te Deum in F
Benedictus
(with: Anon: Verite Psalm 24 Psalm 47 Finzi: God is gone up, Head
that once was crowned Messiaen: Ascension (exc) Stanford:
Coelus ascendit)
Lincoln Cathedral Choir
Colin Walsh (organ)
Andrew Post (organ)
Priory PRCD478
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Classics For Pleasure
April
The Darkened Valley
London Pieces
Three Pastels
In Those Days
A Sea Idyll
Four Preludes
The Towing Path
Summer Evening
Greenways
Desmond Wright (piano)
Classics For Pleasure CDCFP4674 (budget price)
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Kingdom
Twentieth Century British Piano Music
The Island Spell
(with Britten: Holiday Diary Delius: Prelude Elgar: Adieu,
In Smyrna, Serenades Headington: Ballade-Image, Cinquanta
Moeran: Summer Valley Patterson: Tunnel of Time )
Christopher Headington (piano)
Kingdom KCLCD2017
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YORK
The Holy Boy – organ
(with Commette: Offertoire sur des Noels Mathias: A Babe is
Born Mulet: Noël Praetorius: Es ist
ein Ros Traditional: We’ve been awhile a-wandering, Away in a manger,
See amid the Winter’s Snow, I saw three ships, I sing of a maiden, O Come,
O Come Emmanuel, Tomorrow will be my dancing day, I sing the birth, A child
is born in Bethlehem, O little town of Bethlehem, Unto us a son is born
Benedicamus Domino Vierne: Pièces en stile libre (exc))
John Scott Whiteley on the Organ of York Minster
York AmbisonicCD846
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Etcetera
Bed in Summer
The Bells of San Marie
During music
I have twelve oxen
If there were dreams to sell
If we must part
Love and Friendship
Mother and Child
Santa Chiara
Song from o’er the hill
Songs sacred and profane
Spring Sorrow
Three Ravens
Tryst
What art thou thinking of?
When I am dead, my dearest,
Rachel Ann Morgan (mezzo) Tan Crone (piano)
Etcetera KTC1128
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Deutsche Grammophon
The Bells of San Marie
Sea Fever
Vagabond
(with Butterworth: Bredon Hill, Shropshire Lad, Finzi: Let us Garlands
Bring,Vaughan Williams: Songs of Travel )
Bryn Terfel (bass-bar) Malcolm Martineau (piano)
DG 445946-2
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ABBEY
Te Deum in F
(with: Anon: Lord, for thy tender mercy’s sake Bach: Cantata
147 Durufle: Motets Goss: Praise My Soul
Handel: Coronation Anthems Mendelssohn: Paulus (Wie lieblich
sind die Boten) Mozart: Ave verum corpus Parry: I was glad
Schubert: Psalm 23, Vaughan Williams: Old Hundredth)
Exeter Cathedral Choir
Conductor: Lucien Nethsingha
Abbey CDCA590
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Greater Love hath no Man – motet
(with: Bairstow: Blessed City, heavenly Salem, Let all mortal flesh keep
silence Britten: Hymn to St Peter Finzi: Welcome, sweet and
sacred feast Harris: Bring us, O Lord Holst: Evening
Watch Howells: Like as the hart Joubert: O Lorde, the maker
of all thing Rose: Praise Ye the Lord Stewart: King of Glory
Vaughan Williams: Whitsunday Hymn Walton: Set me as a seal
Magdalen Oxford College Choir
G Webber (organ)
Abbey CDCA914
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Magnificat – An anthology of Church Music
Greater Love hath no Man – Motet
(with: Bairstow: Blessed City, heavenly Salem Donati: Allelujah!
Haec Dies! Duruflé: Motets Op10 (exc) Elgar: Apostles
(exc), Ecce sacerdos magnus, Ave verum corpis Farrant:
Call to Remembrance Ives: Magnificat Joubert: O Lorde,
the maker of all thing Shepard: Secret of Christ Sumsion:
Bendicite Tallis: O sacrum convivium Tye: O Holy Spirit
Walmisley: Magnificat Weelkes: Hosanna to the Son of David
Wood: O Thou the central Orb)
Giggleswick School Choir
Timothy Harvey (organ)
Conductor: Peter Read
Abbey CDCA922
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Greater Love Hath no Man – Motet
(with: Anonymous: Psalm 150 Batten: O sing joyfully Britten:
Ceremony of Carols (exc) Dupré: Tombeau de Titelouze
(exc) Faure: Requiem (exc) Handel: Coronation anthems (exc)
Mozart: Ave verum corpus Parry: Jerusalem Stainer:
Crucifixion (exc) Pearce: Floreat Dunelmia Rutter: Gaelic
Blessing, For the Beauty of the Earth Stanford: Services op10
(exc) Traditional: Spotless Rose Vaughan Williams: Old Hundredth
Vivaldi: Gloria (exc) Weelkes: Hosanna to the Son of David
Wesley: Blessed be the God and Father)
Durham School Chapel Choir
Gregory Williams (organ)
Conductor: Jonathan Newell
Abbey CDCA929
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REFERENCE RECORDINGS
Greater Love Hath No Man – Motet
(with: Allegri: Miserere mei Bairstow: Blessed City, heavenly Salem
Casals: O vos omnes Duruflé: Motets op10 (exc)
Gibbons: This is the record of John Kellette: I’m for ever blowing
bubbles Naylor Vox Dicentis: Clama Parry: Jerusalem P.Philips:
Ascendit Deus Traditional: Coventry Carol, Here is the little door,
Spotless Rose, Sing Lullaby, Greensleeves, For these and all thy mercies
Vaughan Williams: Mystical Songs (exc)
St Bride’s Choir
Matthew Morley (organ)
Conductor: Robert Jones
Reference REGCD703
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HYPERION
Sea Fever
(with: Berlioz: Nuits d’été (exc) Borodin: Sea, Sea
Princess Brahms: duets Op20 (exc) Debussy: Proses
lyriques (exc) Didbin: Tom Bowling Fauré:
Au cimetière, Horizon chimérique, Les Berceaux Haydn:
Canzonettas (exc) Ives: Swimmers Mendelssohn:
Wasserfahrt Schubert: Lied eines Schiffers an die Dioskuren
Schumann: Gesänge op125 (exc) Trad: Mermaid, Sail
On, Sail On Walton: Song for the Lord Mayor’s Table
Wolf: Eichendorff Lieder )
Thomas Allen (bar)
Sarah Walker (mezzo)
Roger Vignoles (piano)
Hyperion CDA66165
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Greater Love hath no Man – motet
(with: Bairstow: Blessed city, heavenly salem, Let all mortal flesh
keep silence Finzi: God is gone up Gardiner: Evening
Hymn Hadley: My beloved spake Naylor: Vox dicentis clama
Stainer: I saw the Lord Stanford: Motets op38 (exc)Wood:
Hail, gladdening light Wesley: Blessed be the God and Father)
St Pauls Cathedral Choir
Andrew Lucas (organ)
Conductor: John Scott
Hyperion CDA66374
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Hawthorn Time
Heart’s desire
The Land of Lost Content: The Lent Lily, Goal and Wicket, The Vain Desire,
The Encounter, Epilogue
(with: Barber With rue my heart is laden Lennox Berkeley: Because
I liked you better, He would not stay for me Butterworth: Bredon Hill,
When the lad for longing sighs, On the idle hill of Summer, Shropshire
lad (complete) Horder: White in the Moon Moeran: Far
in a Western Brookland. O fair enough are sky and plain Orr:
Shropshire Lad (Into my Heart, O see how thick the goldcup flowers)
Isle of Portland ,This time of year)
Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor)
Graham Johnson (piano)
Hyperion CDA66471/2 (2 CD)
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When daffodils begin to peer (from: Songs of the wayfarer)
(with: Addison: O Mistress mine Arne: On a day, Alack
the day Aiken: Shall I compare thee to a Summer’s
day? Bishop: O happy fair! Britten: Fancie
G Bush:Sigh no more, Ladies Clifton: If music be
the food of love Gardiner: Winter Horder: Who is
Silvia? Howells: Under the greenwood tree Parry: When in disgrace
with fortune and men’s eyes, Farewell, thou art to dear for my
possessing (from: Shakespeare Sonnets) J C Smith: You
spotted snakes (from The Fairies), No more dams I’ll make for
fish (from The Tempest) Haydn: She never told her love
Linley: Lawn,as white as driven snow Major: If love make
me forsworn Quilter: Come away Death, Fear no more the heat
of the sun, It was a lover and his lass, Take, O take those lips away
Stanford: The rain it raineth every day (from: Clown’s songs
from Twelfth Night) Tippett: Songs for Ariel Vaughan Williams:
Orpheus with his lute
Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor)
Graham Johnson (piano)
Hyperion CDA66480
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Sonatas for Violin and Piano:
No 1 in D minor, No 2 in A minor
Bagatelle
Berceuse
Cavatina
The Holy Boy
Paul Barritt (violin)
Catherine Edwards (piano)
Hyperion CDA66853
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THE SONGS OF JOHN
IRELAND
Lisa Milne, John Mark Ainsley, Christopher Maltman.
Graham Johnson: Piano
Hyperion CDA67261/2 154m DDD.
DELOS
Sing We Merrily – Choral music
Greater Love hath no Man – motet
(with: Bairstow: Let all mortal flesh keep silence Baker: Easter
Anthem Barber: Agnus Dei Bernstein: Mass (exc)
Britten: Jubilate Deo Campbell: Sing we Merrily Piccolo:
O hear us Lord Fink: What sweeter music Hallock: Lord
is my light Near: And all in the morning Pearson: Advent
Procession Rutter: For the beauty of the earth Sumsion: There
is a green hill Susa: Song to the lamb Traditional:
Tomorrow shall be my dancing day Vaughan Williams: Loch Lomond
Weaver: Epiphany alleluias)
St John’s Episcopal Cathedral Choir
Conductor: Donald Pearson
Delos DE3125
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KOCH SCHWANN
The Hills
(with: Cocker: Tuba tune Finzi: Poems of Robert Bridges (:
I praise the tender flower, I have loved flowers that fade, my spirit
sang all day) Harris: Flourish for an occasion Howells:
Rhapsodies op17 No. 1 Moeran: Songs of Springtime Rutter:
Gloria Vaughan Williams: Shakespeare Songs)
East London Chorus, R Sayer (organ) , Richard Balcome (organ) , Locke Brass
Consort
Conductor: M Kibblewhite
Koch Schwann 312662
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SYMPOSIUM
Favourite Carols and Christmas Songs
The Holy Boy – Song
(with: Adam: Minuit, Chrétiens (exc) Danzig: Scarlet
Ribbons Quilter: I sing of a Maiden Reger: Wiegenlied op 142
No 1 Traditional: Away in a Manger, Christmas Candle, First
Mercy Guardian Angels, How far is it to Bethlehem? Little Jesu sweetly
sleep, Long ago in Bethlehem, Robin’s Carol, So gentle the Donkey,
Sleep lovely babe, Star of Bethlehem, Stille Nacht, The Storke Carol, I wonder
as I wander, Könige)
Jeffrey Benton (baritone)
Keith Orrell (keyboards)
Symposium SYMCD1086
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RCA
James Galway’s Christmas Carol
The Holy Boy – arranged for flute
(with: Bach: Suites BWV1066-9 (exc) , Christmas Oratorio (exc) , Cantata
208 (exc) Gounod: Ave Maria Rutter: Shepherd’s pipe carol
Traditional: Greensleeves, I saw three ships, I wonder as I wander,
Jesus Christ the apple tree, Patapan, Stille Nacht, We wish you a merry
Christmas, Zither carol
James Galway (flute)
BBC Singers, Canterbury King’s School Chapel Choir
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Directed by James Galway
RCA 09026 61233-2
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CALA
Dweller in my Deathless Dreams
My True Love Hath My Heart
The Salley Gardens (from Songs Sacred and Profane)
The Trellis
Her Song (from Three songs to poems by Thomas Hardy)
(with: Bridge: Day after Day, Dweller in my Deathless Dreams, Journey’s
End, Speak to me my love, Holst: Persephone,
Now in these Fairylands, A little music, The Floral Bandit The Dream
City, Journey’s End Howells: Come Sing and Dance, Gavotte,
Girl’s Song , King David Warlock: Consider, I held
Love’s Head, Rutterkin, Sad Song, Singer, Thou gavest me leave to kiss)
Sarah Leonard (soprano)
Malcolm Martineau (piano)
Cala 88016-2
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Meltdown – Music of the 20th Century (compilation
album)
The Salley Gardens
Sarah Leonard (soprano)
Malcolm Martineau (piano)
(with: Abe: Marimba works (exc), Britten: String Quartet
No. 3 , Cage: 4’33”, Crumb: Black Angels (exc),
Gorecki: Totus tuus, Howells: Requiem (exc), Martin:
Mass (exc), Martinu: Flute Sonata (exc), Messiaen:
Preludes (exc), Penderecki: Unterbrochene Gedanke, Prokofiev:
Romeo and Juliet (exc), Schnittke: Cello Sonata (exc),
Shostakovich: Hypothetically Murdered Suite (exc), Tavener:
Lamb, Volans: String quartet No 1 (exc), Wier:
Consolations of scholarship (exc)
Various performers
Cala 88088-2
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Max Sound (cassette only)
Her Song (from 3 Hardy Songs)
Spring Sorrow
(with: Britten: The Salley gardens Finzi: It was a lover
and his Lass from Let us garlands bring, Gibbs: Silver,
Five eyes Gurney: Severn Meadows, Sleep Harty: Sea
Wrack, Head: Blackbird Singing Howells: Girl’s Song
Stanford: Pibroch from Songs of a Roving Celt,
Titherington: Sheiling Song Traditional: O waly waly, I will
give my love an apple, Fidgety bairn, I have a bonnet trimmed with blue
Vaughan Williams: The Water Mill from Four Poems by Fredegond
Shove, Silent Noon from House of Life, Warlock: Fair
and true
Valerie Baulard (contralto)
SimonWright (piano)
Max Sound MSCB12/13
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GUILD
Te Deum in F
(with: Blatchly: For the Fallen Bullock: Give us the wings
of Faith Dykes: Eternal Father, strong to save Gabrielli:
Ricercare Gray: What are these that glow from afar?
Joubert: O Lorde, the maker of al thing Parry
Chorale preludes Smart: Love Divine Sumsion: They
that go down Traditional: He who would valiant be, Light’s Abode,
celestial Salem
Portsmouth Catherdral Choir
David Thorne (organ)
Conductor: A Froggat
Guild GRSC7021 (cassette)
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Sonata for Violin and Piano No 2 in A minor
(with: Goossens: Sonata No. 1 H Ferguson: Sonata No. 2)
Oliver Lewis (violin)
Jeremy Filsell (piano)
Guild GMCD7120
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Sarnia
London Pieces
In Those days
Prelude in E flat
Ballade
Columbine
Month’s Mind
John Lenehan (pf)
Naxos 8.553700
My Song is Love
My Song is love unknown
Greater Love hath no man
Total Aberdeen Youth Choir
conductor Christopher Bell with John Kitchen (organ)
Recording sponsored by Total Oil Company
Divine Art CD2-5004
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