classical music: Stephen Varcoe

classical music: Stephen Varcoe

classical music:

Stephen Varcoe

The Best Carols in the World...Ever!

Gareth Morrell, Simon Vaughan, ...

EMI Classics, 2005

Title makes a big claim, but it absolutely delivers...
This album provides 2.5 hours of excellent carols, from excellent choirs and soloists, and with great sound. I was worried that a compilation this large, and with such an extravagent title, would be B-side offerings, but that's not the case at all. This isn't an ...

Bach: Sacred Vocal Works

Andreas Schmidt, Olaf Bär, ...

Deutsche Grammophon, 2004

Bargain price for the best of the best!
Below are the Amazon.com asin numbers for all four of the works in this box: St. Mathew Passion - B0000057DG (1989) St. John Passion - B0000057CW (1990) Christmas Oratorio - B0000057D5 (1990) Mass in b minor - B0000057CN (1990) The numerous reviews already ...

Vaughan Williams: The Collector's Edition

Benjamin Luxon, Brian Etheridge, ...

EMI Classics, 2008

Great Value, Fine Performances
For lovers of Ralph Vaughan Williams' music, the prospect of obtaining most of his works on 30 CDs for $50 or less should be irresistible. It's a great way to fill in the gaps in your collection, or to become acquainted with RVW's less familiar works. Among the ...

Best Carols 100
Gareth Morrell, Hermann Prey, ...

EMI Classics, 2007

2007 release in the Best Classics 100 series, 100 Best Carols is the perfect Christmas release-- six CDs of the most famous carols, all time for the price of one full-priced disc! Among the vocal groups found on this release are the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, the Taverner Choir, the Bach Choir, and the Wiener Sangerknaben, while star ...

Cambridge Singers Christmas Album

Stephen Orton, Adolphe Adam, ...

Collegium, 2003

Glittering Chrismas Music
I own virtually all of the CD's of John Rutter (whom I greatly admire) and the Cambridge Singers, and I am a fan of English Choral music in general. If I were asked to recommend only one of the many Cambridge Singers Christmas albums, or indeed one of any English ...

Bach: St. John Passion / Gardiner, The English Baroque Soloists

Johann Sebastian Bach, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, ...

Archiv Produktion, 1990

The other great Bach Passion...
Bach supposedly wrote 5 passions, two of which survive complete. Of one only the libretto survives, and supposedly pieces of one passion exist in one of Bach's Cantatas. The St. John's Passion is the earliest extant passion of Bach's (composed in the 1720s), and, ...

The John Rutter Christmas Album

Cambridge Singers, Rutter, ...

Collegium, 2002

John Rutter Christmas album
excellent! Inever heard a Rutter that I didn't like. This cd reinforces my enjoyment of his music.

Faure: Requiem and other choral music

Stephen Varcoe, Gabriel Faure, ...

Collegium, 2000

Requiem- a masterpiece.
This exquisite collection has so many gorgeous songs that move me to tears. In Sanctus, the violin is so pure, so beautiful, its wrings my heart. This is real music, real art, crafted with such care, that it is a true privilege to hear it, not to mention sing it (which ...

Monteverdi: L'Orfeo / London Baroque - Medlam, Chiaroscuro - Caudle

Claudio Monteverdi, London Baroque, ...

EMI Classics, 1994

The "professional" review is understated...
It's true that Roger's voice is close to being raw in some places, but I don't think that detracts in any way. There is much to recommend here, not the least being the very immediate sound of the recording and the broad dynamic range. It is easy to imagine this being ...

Handel - Israel in Egypt / Bostridge, Chance, Gritton, Varcoe, King's College Choir, The Brandenburg Consort, ...

Henry Herford, Stephen Varcoe, ...

Decca, 2000

Superb recording of one of Handel's great oratorios
Handel made is fame in England as a brilliant composer of Italian Opera. When the crown endorsed a second opera company it was soon apparent that even London could not and would not support both. When Handel could no longer recruit the top singers for his operas, he ...

Schoenberg: Serenade; Variations, Op. 31; Bach Orchestrations

Stephen Varcoe, Fred Sherry, ...

Naxos, 2006

SCHOENBERG's SERENADE...
Schoenberg's Serenade for septet w/bass [baritone] voice is one of his most charming and approachable works. It's tasty scoring includes guitar, mandolin, and bass clarinet: yummy! The voice appears in only one song--a setting of a Petrarch sonnet in German ...

Best Loved Christmas Carols

Stephen Varcoe, Johann Sebastian Bach, ...

EMI Classics, 2004

a voice teacher and early music fan
ECLECTIC CAROLS THAT TRANSCEND THE COMMONPLACE Listening to these carols extracted from the various Festival and Nine Lesson services held in the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge on Christmas Eve is incredibly inspiring and brings out the real meaning of ...

Songs by Reynaldo Hahn / Lott, Bostridge, Bickley; Johnson

Reynaldo Hahn, Graham Johnson, ...

Hyperion UK, 1996

Beautiful French lieder
Reynaldo Hahn's early years coincided with the sway of French impressionism, and these early experiences with introverted poetic expression affected his life for ever. Hahn's songs are by nature reflective. Many of them are set to poems by impressionist poets, such ...

Faure: Complete Songs 1 - Au bord de l'eau
Christopher Maltman, Stephen Varcoe, ...

Hyperion UK, 2005

Handel: Solomon

Stephen Varcoe, George Frederick Handel, ...

Philips, 2006

a voice teacher and early music fan
'Solomon' is probably the most magnificent and the most lavish of all the Handel oratorios. In this work he demanded a grander, more sumptuous orchestra than for any other oratorio, and it contains a high proportion of choral music written in the most imposing ...