Top Forty Recordings
CTCC is most grateful to Colin Brownlee (www.inquiresandplaces.com). We asked him to search his vast and comprehensive collection and come up with his forty top recordings from among those currently available. His choice is below, though it is not listed in any particular order of merit.
The Three Kings Choir of the Abbey School, Tewkesbury: Nicholas Delphian 34051
Hark What A Sound! Chelmsford Cathedral: Elliott Mayhew 1034
Frank Martin Mass, Westminster Cathedral: O'Donnell Hyperion 67017
Evensong at York Minster, York Minster: Moore York 119
Winter Lullabies, Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford: Darlington Gift of Music 1155
William Byrd Anthems, Motets and Services, Hereford Cathedral: Bowen Griffin 4048
Anthems by S.S. Wesley, York Minster: Moore Guild 7201
The Art of the Chorister, New College, Oxford: Higginbottom (Available from New College)
The Quiristers of Winchester College: Smith Meridian 84162
Great is the Lord, Westminster Abbey: O'Donnell Hyperion 67593
Peace on Earth, Orlando Gibbons, Truro Cathedral: Sharpe Lammas 190
Anthems from King's College, Cambridge: Willcocks Classics for Pleasure: 5856202
Christopher Tye Latin and English Church Music, Magdalen College, Oxford: Ives Harmonia Mundi 907369
Fauré Requiem, Winchester Cathedral Choir: Hill Virgin 561994
It is a Thing Most Wonderful, Southwell Minster: Hale Cantoris 6082
Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem, King's College, Cambridge EMI 366948
Sir William Henry Harris Anthems, St George's Chapel, Windsor: Byram-Wigfield Naxos 8.570148
Set Me As A Seal Upon Thine Heart, St John's College,Cambridge: Robinson Lindenberg 55
The Victorian and Edwardian Anthem, New College, Oxford: Higginbottom CRD 3513
A Choral Portrait of Vaughan Williams, Rochester Cathedral: Sayer Lantern 4
Hear My Prayer, Winchester College Chapel Choir: Tolley Herald 303
The Choristers of Canterbury Cathedral, Canterbury Cathedral: Flood York 120
Schubert and Brahms Motets, King's College, Cambridge: Ledger Classics for Pleasure: 5070332
Handel Messiah, New College, Oxford: Higginbottom Naxos 8.570131
Victoria Requiem, Westminster Cathedral: Hill Hyperion 66250
Byrd and his Contemporaries, King's College, Cambridge: Willcocks Classics for Pleasure: 5860482
An English Chorister's Songbook, Salisbury Cathedral: Seal Metronome 1016
Stanford Services and Anthems, St John's College, Cambridge: Robinson Naxos 8.555794
Rachmaninov Vespers, King's College, Cambridge: Cleobury EMI 556152
The English Anthem, King's College, Cambridge: Cleobury EMI 754418
John Stainer Choir of the Abbey School, Tewkesbury: Nicholas Priory 833
Hear My Words, Eton College Chapel Choir: Allwood Signum 115
Meditation, St John's College Cambridge: Hill From St John's: SJCR 103
Remembrance, St Paul's Cathedral: Scott Hyperion 67398
Rheinberger Masses, Blackburn Cathedral: Tanner Lammas 156
In the Beginning, Gloucester Cathedral: Nethsingha Avie 2072
Music for Passiontide, Guildford Cathedral: Rose Guild 7001
Palestrina Missa Aeterna Christi Munera, Westminster Cathedral: O'Donnell Hyperion 66490