From Palaces to Pleasure Gardens
...was a significant appetite for concerts which attracted composers from all over Europe and beyond. Much of the musical patronage had royal connections and another significant centre of London concert...
...was a significant appetite for concerts which attracted composers from all over Europe and beyond. Much of the musical patronage had royal connections and another significant centre of London concert...
Sir Edward Bairstow (1874–1946) was one of the Britain’s most iconic composers of Edwardian sacred music. After holding posts in London, Wigan, and Leeds, he served as organist of York...
The first recording from the professional vocal group, The Proteus Ensemble, directed by Stephen Shellard. A beautiful and moving selection of music and readings for the commemoration of 1914, recorded...
...by William Mathias who is buried in the Cathedral churchyard Vaughan Williams’ beautiful Prelude on Rhosymedre – named after a village in the St Asaph diocese- and the first recording...
From the city that brought the world its first true ‘skyscraper’, a ground-breaking recording of eleven choral works, ten of them new commissions by the Saint Louis Chamber Chorus, from...
...Christmas spirit in rarely recorded works by composers from the 19th to 21st centuries. Includes Thomas Trotter’s arrangement of the ever-popular Sleigh Ride by Leroy Anderson, and the first recording...
Edward Woodall Naylor (1867–1934) was Organist of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, from 1898 until his death. Apart from his well-known anthem ‘Vox dicentis: Clama’ and a few canticle settings, very little...
Captured in the warm and radiant acoustic of the Lady Chapel of York Minster, this wide-ranging survey traces the ‘threads of gold’ weaving through the development of sacred choral works...