Special Offers
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Treble Solos |
Three collections of music featuring treble solos at a special price:
Golden Treble Solos - - David Meredith with Malcolm Archer
"These are indeed golden....
The chapel gives a warm and atmospheric acoustic
for twenty favourite solos with accompaniments that are well balanced and
tasteful."
Organist's Review
Heavenly Harmonies - three trebles from Blackburn Cathedral featuring Daniel Adams, James Holding and Thomas Croxson
"This is a thoroughly delightful disc, definitely a cut above the usual
standard of such offerings...
What a pleasure to hear such well-trained boys, and how they must have
enjoyed learning and performing this programme of British and continental
works from the 17th and 18th centuries."
Cathedral Music
Britten - Missa Brevis and other works for treble voices featuring Kieran White
"The voices and instruments of the English cathedral music tradition can
sometimes look like a threatened species. Yet appearances are deceptive:
somehow the species survives, almost without mutation, and the ancient
foundations look like bastions of strength, bulwarks against the ravages of
the Zeitgeist. Come back with me, then, to Wells Cathedral, where history is
now and England, for an hour of gentle consolation, spiritual uplift and
some beautiful singing."
(International Record Review
All three CDs for the special price of £20.
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Special Offer |
Two recordings by St Alban's Abbey Girls' Choir:
Music commissioned for St Matthew's Church, Northampton
'This is an extremely well planned and executed programme....The Finzi setting that gives the CD its title is also a substantial 15-minute work. Again we have a composer inspired by the commission to write individually but with a great tradition in mind. The choir and conductor respond superbly, giving a performance full of vitality and colour.....
'The recording is well judged, with a difficult
acoustic suitably tamed by the engineers without losing bloom or detail.'
musicweb.uk.net - July 2003
St Albans Abbey Girls Choir
Emma Kirkby
Catherine Denley
London Baroque
'The Lammas disc opens with Hildegard's 0 Euchari, a
perfect introduction to the Pergolesi, which is accompanied by the beguiling
sounds of London Baroque. This performance... is flowing but never hurried.
The girls sing on five of the tracks, the remainder of the work falling to
the mature, vibrant tones of Emma Kirkby that now give her voice added
depth, and the rich sounds of Catherine Denley. It's a stunning performance
that has the girls delivering the ornamentation like true professionals.'
Choir and Organ - 2007
Both CDs for the special price of £25.
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Organ Special Offer |
Two organ recordings by Terence Charlston:
Sounds Baroque - Terence Charlston plays the IOFS organ in St Saviour's Church, St Albans.
‘The two-manual organ (after the style of Andreas Silbermann) copes well with the varied musical styles of the period and the
recorded sound is clean and well-focussed....Right from the opening moment,
it is clear that this is stylish playing from a real expert of this period.’
Cathedral Music
Sounds of Bach - Terence Charlston on the organs of Douai Abbey.
‘Charlston is an acknowledged exponent in Great Britain of
early keyboard music, and he plays Bach with unusual elegance, assurance,
genuine musicality, and of course, stylistic awareness. All this adds up to
splendid Bach organ performances; something of an endangered species
nowadays.’
American Record Guide
Terence Charlston is a specialist performer of the Early Keyboard repertoire. He has given concerts world-wide and appeared on over 40 commercial CDs on harpsichord, organ, virginals, clavichord and fortepiano. A member of the ensemble London Baroque, he teaches at the Royal Academy of Music and has given master classes in Germany, USA and Mexico.
Both CDs for the special price of £25.
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Organ Special Offer |
Two titles from the "Sounds" series both featuring the organ of Blackburn Cathedral:
Sounds Orchestral - Symphonies by Schubert and Mendelssohn transcribed for Organ Duet by David Gibbs. Played by Greg Morris and David Gibbs on the organ of Blackburn Cathedral
"David Gibbs has arranged the Schubert Symphony No. 5 and the Mendelssohn
Symphony No. 4 (Italian) expertly, and the result is simply great fun to
hear...The performance here is nothing short of spectacular, both in
execution and in imaginative use of organ sounds."
The Journal of the Association of Anglican Musicians
Sounds Thrilling - Stephen Farr plays the organ in Blackburn Cathedral
"Farr performs the seven movements of this creative music with assurance,
grace, and grandeur. The instrument is quite easily capable of the "Frenchness"
of it. If there is such a thing as a "perfect" match of music and
instrument, this may be it."
The American Organist - March 2007
Both CDs for the special price of £25.