CD Recordings

In The MoodIN THE MOOD

This programme of sophisticated choral arrangements of popular songs encompasses jazz favourites, songs from the shows and the title track – a wordless version of Glenn Miller’s immortal big band tune. Including both accompanied and a capella tracks, the numbers on this CD – blues, swing, scat, Dixieland and sophisticated close-harmony – are easy listening of the best sort and not to be missed.  More info…

Deep RiverDEEP RIVER

‘Feel the Spirit’ is a set of seven arrangements of well-known spirituals, first performed in 2001. It is performed on this recording by the acclaimed jazz singer Jacqueline Dankworth in its chamber-ensemble arrangement. Harvey Brough’s ‘Walled Garden Suite’ for soloist, choir and instrumental quartet was written for Dankworth and first performed on the occasion of the opening of the walled garden at Wingfield Arts in Suffolk.  More info…

400 Years of Choral Music400 YEARS OF CHORAL MUSIC

This mixed programme of well-loved choral pieces spans 400 years of English music. Beginning with the music of William Byrd, whose anthem Sing Joyfully epitomises the sacred music of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, this selection of unaccompanied masterpieces provides a cross section of some of the finest  More info…

John TavenerJOHN TAVENER

This CD features music by three of today’s most popular composers of sacred music. Sir John Tavener, born in London in 1944, became well-known for his cantata of 1968, ‘The Whale’, but it is the music he has written since the 1980s, with the strong influence of Eastern Orthodoxy, that have made him a household name, including the ‘Song for Athene’, sung at the funeral of Princess Diana.  More info…

CD Among the leaves so greenAMONG THE LEAVES SO GREEN

Drawing on the rich musical heritage of folk music in the British Isles and North America, much of it collected during the great folk-song revival at the turn of the twentieth century, this CD presents twenty-five folksongs in arrangements by Vaughan Williams, Holst, Grainger and others: fifteen from various parts of England and ten from Scotland, Wales, Ireland and the USA and Canada.

Follow That StarFOLLOW THAT STAR

THIS is the album that should be stuck in your CD player this Christmas! Starting with a collection of superb choral arrangements of some of the best-known and loved Christmas songs from the twentieth century, this album of Christmas music also includes favourite carols from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries and from Spain, Britain and North America.  More info…

The MasqueTHE MASQUE AT KENILWORTH

Although Sir Arthur Sullivan’s collaborations with W.S. Gilbert remain extremely popular, much of his other music has fallen into obscurity. This CD aims to change that, and contains a number of first recordings, foremost among them ‘Kenilworth’. First performed at the Birmingham Festival of 1864, this cantata for solo voices, chorus and orchestra is among the composer’s earliest works and takes as its subject  More info…

Some ShadowsSOME SHADOWS OF ETERNITY…

Antony le Fleming was born in Wiltshire in 1941 and after taking his degree at Cambridge studied with Herbert Howells and Malcolm Arnold. His entire career has been spent in music, and composition – in a classical and notably English mode – has increasingly occupied his time. This CD contains several examples of le Fleming’s works for choral forces, from the lavish three-movement, double-choir ‘Cantate Domino’ to the  More info…

The Kestrel RoadTHE KESTREL ROAD

In 2004 the choir premiered and made the first commercial recording of this set of SATB songs, setting poems by George Mackay Brown, commissioned by Making Music. It is available to download, or on a custom-made CD, from Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’ website, MaxOpus.com.  More info…