Kings College Choir Cambridge - Stephen Cleobury: Complete Argo Recordings

Decca (UMO) / Classics / Decca Classics

£76.50

Format: 20 x CD
Catalogue No.: 4852060
Barcode: 0028948520602
Release Date: 11 Feb 2022
Genre: Classical

Stephen Cleobury’s 37-year tenure as director of music at King’s 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 chapel’s legendary acoustic. This new edition serves as a wonderful companion to the David Willcocks Edition released in 2015 which generated 165k € (3.3k units).

TRACKLIST
CD 1 TALLIS Spem in allium (40-part motet), Lamentations etc.
CD 2 VICTORIA Mass & Motet “O quam gloriosum”; PALESTRINA Mass & Motet “Tues Petrus”
CD 3 LASSUS Three Masses – Missa Vinum Bonum (Good Wine Mass), Missa Triste depart, Missa Quand’io pens’al martire
CD 4 GABRIELI The Glory of Venice
Philip Jones Brass Ensemble
CD 5 VIVALDI Dixit Dominus; Beatus Vir
Isobel Buchanan, Jennifer Smith, Helen Watts, Ian Partridge, John Shirley-Quirk, English Chamber Orchestra
CD 6 HANDEL Dixit Dominus; Laudate pueri Dominum
Isobel Buchanan, Ann Mackay, Michael Chance, William Kendall, Henry Herford, English Chamber Orchestra
CD 7–8 HANDEL Messiah (1752 Version 1)
Lynne Dawson, Hilary Summers, John Mark Ainsley, Alastair Miles, The Brandenburg Consort
CD 9–10 HANDEL Israel in Egypt
Ian Bostridge, Michael Chance, Susan Gritton, Stephen Varcoe, The Brandenburg Consort
CD 11 MOZART Mass in C Minor, K139/47a (“Waisenhaus-Messe”), Mass in C Major, K257 (“Credo-Messe”)
Susanne Mentzer, Bernadette Manca di Nissa, Neil Mackie, Stephen Roberts, English Chamber Orchestra
CD 12 MOZART Masses – Coronation Mass, K317; Missa Solemnis, K337
Margaret Marshall, Ann Murray, Rogers Covey-Crump, David Wilson-Johnson, English Chamber Orchestra
CD 13 “HEAR MY PRAYER” – Choral music by Mendelssohn & Brahms
CD 14 VERDI Quattro pezzi sacri (Four Sacred Pieces)
Cambridge University Music Society, London Philharmonic Orchestra
CD 15 BRITTEN A Ceremony of Carols*; Rejoice in the Lamb; A Boy was Born
Rachel Masters, harp*
CD 16 “A Celebration of Herbert Howells” incl. Collegium Regale
CD 17 MAXWELL DAVIES Solstice of Light; Five Carols; Hymn to the Word of God
CD 18 “HOLY, HOLY, HOLY” – 16 Favourite Hymns
CD 19 “O COME ALL YE FAITHFUL” – 16 Favourite Christmas Carols
CD 20 “THE KING’S COLLECTION” – includes Song for Athene; Miserere; Panis Angelicus; Zadok The Priest; Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring