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Bach: Magnificat & Christmas Cantata 63: Reconstruction of Bach's first Christmas Vespers in Leipzig Julia Doyle, Joanne Lunn, Clare Wilkinson, Nicholas Mulroy, Matthew Brook / Dunedin Consort, John Butt [ Linn SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 16/Oct/2015 ] 'This is a beautifully paced, exhilaratingly executed performance' (Choral & Song Choice BBC Music Christmas 2015) |
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Bach: Christmas Oratorio Mary Bevan (sop) Joanne Lunn (sop) Clare Wilkinson (mezzo) Nicholas Mulro (ten), etc / Dunedin Consort and Players, John Butt [ Linn / 2 CD - released 14/Oct/2016 ] "Way-too-early seasonal content (sorry), but this latest release from the Dunedin Consort is too good to wait. It's surely one of the finest accounts now available of Bach's Christmas Oratorio." Guardian Five Stars |
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Bach: Cantatas Vol 19: BWV155, BWV3, BWV13; BWV81, BWV14 & BWV26 Joanne Lunn / Richard Wyn Roberts / Julian Podger / Gerald Finley / Monteverdi Choir / English Baroque Soloists / John Eliot Gardiner [ Soli Deo Gloria / 2 CD - released 16/Feb/2006 ] John Eliot Gardiner's award-winning series of live recordings from the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage continues with cantatas for the 2nd and 4th Sundays after Trinity. |
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Bach: Cantatas Vol 10: BWV48, BWV5, BWV90 & BWV56; BWV79, BWV192 & BWV80 Joanne Lunn / William Towers / James Gilchrist / Peter Harvey / Monteverdi Choir / English Baroque Soloists / John Eliot Gardiner [ Soli Deo Gloria / 2 CD - released 20/Sep/2005 ] "This is the winner by any count." Recording of the Month Gramophone Magazine (Jan 2006) |
Music by John Lunn
Downton Abbey - The OST [ Decca / CD - released 25/Nov/2019 ] This high profile movie, continuing the story of Lord Grantham and the Crawley family is in cinemas around the world from September. The film picks up where the last TV series ended |
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St John Passion Joanne Lunn, Clare Wilkinson, Nicholas Mulroy, Matthew Brook / Dunedin Consort and Players, John Butt [ Linn Records SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 20/Mar/2013 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD FINALIST 2013: Baroque Vocal |
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Cantatas: The complete box-set [56 CD set] Joanne Lunn, Gillian Keith, Magdalena Kozena, Paul Agnew, Sara Mingardo, etc / Monteverdi Choir. English Baroque Soloists. John Eliot Gardiner [ Soli Deo Gloria / 56 CD Box Set - released 1/Dec/2013 ] For the first time on one label the complete live recordings from the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage, in an elegant box reflecting the quality of the original series packaging. |
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Bach: Cantatas Vol 1: BWV7, 30, 167; BWV20, 39, 75 Joanne Lunn, Gillian Keith, Wilke te Brummelstroete, Paul Agnew. Monteverdi Choir. English Baroque Soloists. John Eliot Gardiner [ Soli Deo Gloria / 2 CD - released 10/Feb/2005 ] Cantatas For the Feast of St John the Baptist and the First Sunday after Trinity. "The first steps on this Bach pilgrimage lift the heart for the journey to come." Recording of the Month Gramophone Magazine (March 2005) WINNER BEST BAROQUE VOCAL... |
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Cantatas Vol 12: BWV55, BWV89, BWV115, BWV60, BWV139, BWV163, BWV52, BWV140 Joanne Lunn / James Gilchrist / Peter Harvey / Monteverdi Choir / English Baroque Soloists / John Eliot Gardiner [ Soli Deo Gloria / 2 CD - released 16/Dec/2010 ] "One of the most ambitious musical projects of all time" Gramophone |
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Bach: Cantatas Vol 3: Fourth Sunday After Trinity BWV24, 177 & 185 / Fifth Sunday After Trinity BWV71, 88, 93 & 131 Joanne Lunn, Magdalena Kozena, Nathalie Stutzmann, Peter Harvey / Monteverdi Choir / English Baroque Soloists / John Elliot Gardiner [ Soli Deo Gloria / 2 CD - released 22/Mar/2008 ] "As ever, John Eliot Gardiner's magnificent Bach Cantatas series eschews the big-boned, monumental approach to this composer of yesteryear. Here, in a really tremendous volume, is spiritual reflection paced to the fast-moving ebb and flow of life... |
HANDEL
Messiah (highlights) Joanne Lunn, Melanie Marshall, James Gilchrist, Christopher Purves / Cambridge Singers / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / John Rutter [ Collegium / CD - released 23/Nov/2007 ] John Rutter was born in London in 1945 and received his first musical education as a chorister at Highgate School. He went on to study music at Clare College, Cambridge, where he wrote his first published compositions and conducted his first... |
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Messiah (complete) Joanne Lunn, Melanie Marshall, James Gilchrist, Christopher Purves / Cambridge Singers / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / John Rutter [ Collegium / 2 CD - released 29/Nov/2007 ] John Rutter was born in London in 1945 and received his first musical education as a chorister at Highgate School. He went on to study music at Clare College, Cambridge, where he wrote his first published compositions and conducted his first... |
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Cantatas Vol 4: 6th and 7th Sundays after Trinity Joanne Lunn / Michael Chance / James Gilchrist / Stephen Varcoe / Monteverdi Choir / English Baroque Soloists / John Eliot Gardiner [ Soli Deo Gloria / 2 CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] Gardiner's Gramophone and BBC Music Magazine award-winning Bach Cantata series on his hugely successful label, Soli Deo Gloria, releases volume 4 in the series featuring Cantatas for the Sixth and Seventh Sunday after Trinity. Recorded live in July... |
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Bach: Cantatas Volume 11: Cantatas for the 20th and 21st Sundays after Trinity Joanne Lunn / Sara Mingardo / Magdalena Kozena / Peter Harvey / English Baroque Soloists / Monteverdi Choir / John Eliot Gardiner [ Soli Deo Gloria / 2 CD - released 20/Jul/2010 ] "...the soloists - particularly the alto William Towers - were outstanding." The Independent, 4th June 2010 **** |
JOHN RUTTER
Mass for the Children and other sacred works by John Rutter Joanne Lunn (soprano) Roderick Williams (baritone) Cantate Youth Choir, The Cambridge Singers / City of London Sinfonia directed by John Rutter [ Collegium / CD - released 20/Nov/2003 ] John Rutter's Mass of the Children, for adult and children's choir with orchestra, is premiered here with a recital of eight of his recent anthems. |
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Cantatas Vol 14: BWV91, BWV110, BWV40 & BWV121 Joanne Lunn / William Towers / James Gilchrist / Peter Harvey / Monteverdi Choir / English Baroque Soloists / John Eliot Gardiner [ Soli Deo Gloria / CD - released 20/Sep/2005 ] Live recording from the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage of the cantatas for Christmas Day and the 2nd Day of Christmas. Recorded on Christmas Day in St Bartholomew's, New York. |
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Bach: Cantatas Vol 13: BWV61, BWV62, BWV36 & BWV70, BWV132, BWV147 Joanne Lunn / William Towers / Jan Kobow / Dietrich Henschel / Monteverdi Choir / English Baroque Soloists / John Eliot Gardiner [ Soli Deo Gloria / 2 CD - released 10/Nov/2009 ] MARBECKS STAFF PICKS: CD OF THE YEAR 2009 - Cantatas for the for the First Sunday in Advent (Köln) & Cantatas for the Fourth Sunday in Advent (Lüneburg). |
John Lunn
Downton Abbey (Original Music From the Television Series) [ Decca Music Group / CD - released 29/Sep/2011 ] The official soundtrack to the Emmy-winning Downton Abbey shows that the British know how to score a lavish costume drama just as effectively as they do how to make one. |
John Lunn
Downton Abbey: The Essential Collection (Original Soundtrack) [ Decca / CD - released 25/Oct/2012 ] Brand new score compositions by Lunn together with previous released pieces, including covers from the popular choral group Scala. |
AITKEN / STERNDALE BENNETT / HERBERT / BIZET
John McCormack:The Acoustic Recordings (1912-1913) John McCormack (Tenor) with Louise Kirkby-Lunn (Mezzo-soprano), Victor Orchestra / Studio orchestra / Percy Pitt (Conductor) [ Naxos Historical Naxos The McCormack Edition Vol 3 / CD - released 11/May/2006 ] This volume of recordings continues to document the earliest years of McCormack's success in the United States, the titles indicating his greatly increased concert work. |
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Bach: Cantatas Vol 16: For the Sunday after Christmas BWV225 BWV152 BWV122 BWV28 BWV190 Katharine Fuge, Gilliam Keith, Joanne Lunn, David Taylor / Monteverdi Choir / John Eliot Gardiner [ Soli Deo Gloria / CD - released 9/Nov/2007 ] "The programme begins with a stunning account of the greatest of Bach's motets, with ideal balance between the exultant rejoicings of the opening and closing sections and the reflective calm of the middle section." (International Record Review) |
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Cantatas Vol 25: BWV86, BWV87, BWV97, BWV44, BWV150, BWV183 Katharine Fuge / Joanne Lunn / Robin Tyson / Paul Agnew / Monteverdi Choir / English Baroque Soloists / John Eliot Gardiner [ Soli Deo Gloria / 2 CD - released 20/Jun/2008 ] "Gardiner's analyses of the music are both personal and revealing, first to read, and then to hear in practice. This is Bach at a very high level - a match for anything else that is currently available on disc."(Choral & Song Choice of the Month BBC... |
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St John Passion [complete oratorio] Mark Padmore, Peter Harvey, Joanne Lunn / English Baroque Soloists / John Eliot Gardiner [ Soli Deo Gloria / 2 CD - released 20/Apr/2011 ] "A splendid new account of the St. John Passion, which all devotees of Bach's vocal music should try to hear." (Recording of the Month MusicWeb May 2011) |
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Bach: Cantatas Vol 5: BWV178, BWV136, BWV45; BWV46, BWV101, BWV102 Robin Tyson, Brindley Sherratt, Joanne Lunn, Daniel Taylor / Monteverdi Choir / English Baroque Soloists / John Elliot Gardiner [ Soli Deo Gloria / 2 CD - released 1/Dec/2008 ] John Eliot Gardiner's choral Pilgrimage exploring the magnificence and grandeur of all of Bach's cantatas continues with this 2CD release, combining cantatas for the eighth and tenth Sunday after Trinity, recorded live in August 2000. |