classical music: Maurice Bevan

classical music: Maurice Bevan

classical music:

Maurice Bevan

Christmas Music From St Paul's Cathedral
Geoffrey Shaw, Maurice Bevan, ...

Guild, 1999

Henry Purcell: Odes and Anthems

Maurice Bevan, John Frost, ...

Vanguard Classics, 2004

Dated but fascinating
When I first heard this recording of Purcell's "Come Ye Sons of Art" over the radio some 25 years ago, I was struck dumb with amazement. A man could sing like this? Since then, the skills of countertenors have improved markedly, and revisiting this performance was a ...

My Soul Doth Magnify the Lord

Hugh Blair, Herbert Brewer, ...

Hyperion UK, 1992

A Sumptuous Feast
Unlike its sister CD, "My Spirit Hath Rejoiced", this recording makes little attempt at delicacy of selections. This is one majestic setting after another. My personal favourites are Stanford in C, Wesley in E, and Brewer in D. Each of these seems to out-dazzle its ...

The Holly & the Ivy

Maurice Bevan, English Anonymous, ...

Vanguard Classics, 1993

A rare seasonal treat
Although either a little late for the last or early for the next Christmas, the Vanguard reissue of The Holly and the Ivy (OVC 8023) is in my opinion the best Christmas recording ever made. With Alfred Deller and his Deller Consort, accompanied only by recorder and ...

The Holly and the Ivy

Maurice Bevan, Johann Georg Ebeling, ...

Musical Concepts, 2006

Haunting Christmas music
For anyone slightly bored with "elevator" Christmas music, or not a devotee of rock, or rap Christmas carols, this album is a rare and wonderful find. Alfred Deller, an English counter-tenor, and the Deller Consort, present absolutely brilliant 14th, 15th and 16th ...

The Art of the Netherlands (2 CD Set) - The Early Music Consort of London, David Munrow

Josquin Desprez, Heinrich Isaac, ...

Virgin Records Us, 1997

Holds Its Own After Three Decades
Virgin?s David Munrow Edition was issued to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the unfortunate passing of this amazing man who influenced the British early music scene at the beginning of the seventies like no other ? as musicologist, music journalist, musical ...

Great Hymns from St. Paul's
Malcolm Archer, John Barnard, ...

Griffin (Qualiton), 2007

The Music of St. Paul's Cathedral

Timothy Jones, Gregorio Allegri, ...

Hyperion UK, 2000

LACK OF DICTION?!!!
Obviously the individual who wrote the review including the "marred by lack of diction" remark is not too familiar with the traditional boychoir sound. I am moved to sickness that they were so openly compared with the sound of the all-too-familiar MTC. THOSE WERE ...

Lead, Kindly Light: Hymns of Faith and Assurance
Laurence Whitehead, Malcolm Archer, ...

Hyperion UK, 2004

Machaut: Notre Dame Mass, Master Perotin: Gradales (Vanguard)

Guillaume de Machaut, Perotin, ...

Vanguard Classics, 1997

Interesting but flawed older recording
This is an interesting but flawed older recording of these mediæval classics. Performance practices of this repertoire have changed dramatically since this record was made in 1960-61. Most voices in the Machaut Mass are doubled by what appear to be modern wind and ...

Byrd: Messes

Maurice Bevan, William Byrd, ...

Harmonia Mundi Fr., 1992

Probably not the best
While I have the utmost respect for the work Alfred Deller and his consort did in early music before it was really fashionable, I really can't bring muyself to enjoy this recording because of the extremely wobbly soprano in the 4 and 5-part masses. It just seems ...

Tableaux de Provence: The classical saxophones and woodwinds of Ray Smith
Ray Smith, Paule Maurice, ...

Tantara, 2001

Many know Ray Smith's reputation as a consummate jazz stylist, and in Tableaux de Provence he proves his artistry and versatility as a classical saxophone and woodwind player as well. "Ray Smith has earned his place as one of the world's outstanding woodwind artists," proclaims Eugene Rousseau, and Raymond Tuttle, in Fanfare Magazine, adds, "his ...