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add to cart $30.00 In Stock JOHN RUTTER Rutter: Requiem / Hymn To The Creator of Light / etc Polyphony / Bournemouth Sinfonietta, Stephen Layton [ Hyperion / CD - released 2/Feb/1998 ] "Here is music finely crafted, written with love for the art and an especial care for choral sound...their tone is unfailingly beautiful. The two soloists are excellent." Gramophone
add to cart $40.00 In Stock KARL JENKINS Jenkins: Miserere: Songs of Mercy and Redemption Iestyn Davies (counter-tenor), Polyphony, Britten Sinfonia, Stephen Layton [ Decca / CD - released 11/Oct/2019 ] Sir Karl Jenkins is one of the most performed living composers in the world. His new choral masterpiece Miserere is dedicated to all who have suffered or perished during the conflicts in the Middle East over the last 70 years. Karl was motivated by...
add to cart $30.00 In Stock FRANCIS POULENC Poulenc: Gloria / Quatre motets / et Susan Gritton (soprano) / Polyphony / Britten Sinfonia / Stephen Layton [ Hyperion / CD - released 25/Mar/2008 ] GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE AWARD FINALIST 2008 - Choral -
add to cart $22.00 Low Stock JOHN RUTTER Rutter: Requiem and other choral works Polyphony / Bournemouth Sinfonietta, Stephen Layton [ Hyperion 30 / CD - released 1/Sep/2010 ] GRAMOPHONE EDITOR'S CHOICE - 'A radiant richness of sound.' (Penguin Guide)
add to cart $20.00 Low Stock TRADITIONAL A Christmas Present from Polyphony Polyphony Stehpen Layton (conductor) with City of London Sinfonia [ Hyperion / CD - released 25/Nov/2005 ] 'Stephen Layton directs the performances and deserves major credit for the very high standards evident on this compilation' (BBC Music Magazine)
add to cart $30.00 Low Stock BARBER / COPLAND / BERNSTEIN / THOMPSON American Polyphony Polyphony, Stephen Layton [ Hyperion / CD - released 25/Jul/2015 ] "This is the finest performance of Barber's Agnus Dei I've heard by any choir, live or on record…a wonderful recital, not to be missed." (BBC Music Disc of the month - August 2015)
add to cart $25.00 Low Stock PERCY GRAINGER / EDVARD GRIEG MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: 'At Twilight' - Choral Music by Percy Grainger and Edvard Grieg Polyphony with David Wilson-Johnson (baritone) Paul Agnew (tenor) / Stephen Layton [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 14/Jul/2006 ] "Grainger's mastery of choral textures shines out of this wide-ranging collection of folk-song arrangements, each highly individual and memorable. Superior performances by Stephen Layton and Polyphony." Five Stars BBC Music Mag (July 2006)
add to cart $30.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks HANDEL Messiah Allan Clayton (tenor) Julia Doyle (soprano) Andrew Foster-Williams (bass) / Polyphony & Britten Sinfonia, Stephen Layton [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 10/Nov/2009 ] 'No-one, but no-one performs Messiah better every year than the choir Polyphony under the conductor Stephen Layton' (Evening Standard)
add to cart $25.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks ARVO PART Part: Triodion David James (countertenor) Christopher Bowers Broadbent (organ) / Polyphony / Stephen Layton [ Hyperion 30 / CD - released 1/Sep/2010 ] "The choir's pursuit of perfection ideally complements the sheer beauty of the music" Classic FM Magazine
add to cart $45.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks J. S. BACH Bach: St John Passion [2 CD set] Ian Bostridge, Neal Davies, Carolyn Sampson, Iestyn Davies, Nicolas Mulroy / Polyphony, Stephen Layton [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2013 ] "the choral singing is wonderfully pure, buoyant and transparent...Ian Bostridge's Evangelist, mannered and occasionally stretched but full of "narrative" character, dominates Layton's performance" Financial Times, 9th March 2013 ***
add to cart $30.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks PAWEL LUKASZEWSKI Via Crucis Iestyn Davies (countertenor) Allan Clayton (tenor) Andrew Foster-Williams (baritone) / Britten Sinfonia / Polyphony / Stephen Layton (cond) [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Dec/2010 ] "This string of moments, by turns bright and oppressively dark, dramatic and reflective, receives a performance of the very deepest conviction by Polyphony and the Britten Sinfonia under Stephen Layton, and the recorded sound is wonderful." (Gramophone)
add to cart $25.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks PERCY GRAINGER Jungle Book & other choral works John Mark Ainsley (tenor) & David Wilson-Johnson (baritone) / Polyphony, Stephen Layton [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 20/Feb/2011 ] "Generous timing, discoveries, Delian gauzy harmonies, tangy instrumentation, sentimentality, aureate vocal light, succinct and touching settings." (MusicWeb Bargain of the Month Jan 2011)
add to cart $35.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks VARIOUS COMPOSERS And the Sun Darkened: Music for Passiontide New York Polyphony [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 5/Mar/2021 ] An array of elegiac vocal works from across the centuries.
add to cart $35.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks BRUMEL / CRECQUILLON / JOSQUIN / CLEMENS NON PAPA EndBeginning: Motets and Plainsong for the Dead New York Polyphony [ BIS SACD / CD - released 1/Feb/2012 ] "This superb BIS production, ideally recorded in a Swedish church, bodes well for what looks like the beginning of a beautiful relationship." (10/10 ClassicsToday March 2012)
add to cart $32.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks New York Polyphony I sing the Birth [ CD ]
add to cart $35.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks FRANCISCO de PENALOSA Peñalosa: Lamentationes New York Polyphony [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 6/Sep/2019 ] "It's wonderful to hear more music from Francisco de Peñalosa, and particularly pleasing that it comes on this stylish release from New York Polyphony complete with superb booklet notes by Ivan Moody" Gramophone Awards 2020 Short List - Early Music
add to cart $35.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks WILLIAM BYRD / RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT / JOHN PLUMMER / THOMAS TALLIS / etc Times Go By Turns New York Polyphony [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Sep/2013 ] "The sound on this SACD recording, from a Swedish church, is consistent with BIS's usual high standard. Recommended with the assurance that you will listen to this disc often." (10/10 ClassicsToday)
add to cart $40.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks BYRD / CORNYSH / TALLIS / SMITH / TAVERNER / etc Tudor City New York Polyphony [ Avie / CD - released 11/Sep/2010 ] "Recorded in New York's Cathedral of St John the Divine, these are beautifully blended voices of individual distinction" (The Independent)
add to cart $35.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks PALESTRINA / VICTORIA Roma Aeterna - Two Roman Masses New York Polyphony with Tim Keeler (countertenor) Andrew Fuchs (tenor) and Jonathan Woody (bass-baritone) [ BIS SACD / CD - released 1/Jul/2016 ] "Don't be afraid to turn up the volume on this-even without a true surround system, you'll be (most pleasantly) surrounded." (ClassicsToday 9/10 September 2016)
add to cart $37.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks JAMES MACMILLAN Seven Last Words from the Cross / Te Deum Polyphony / Britten Sinfonia / Stephen Layton [ Hyperion SACD / SACD - released 1/Sep/2005 ] 'In an ideal world, Hyperion's August disc of the month would sell by the truckload. The sheer quality of James MacMillan's Seven Last Words, the intensity of Stephen Layton's interpretation and the unrestrained, heartfelt performances of Polyphony...
add to cart $30.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks MORTEN LAURIDSEN Lux aeterna Polyphony / Britten Sinfonia / Stephen Layton (conductor) [ Hyperion / CD - released 13/Apr/2005 ] 'It is clear that Lauridsen's score is, if nothing else, a virtuoso exploration of choral singing technique. As such he could not hope for a more assured or polished performance; or, for that matter, a more luscious recorded sound." Gramophone
add to cart $30.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks JOHN RUTTER Christmas Music Polyphony / City of London Sinfonia / Stephen Layton [ Hyperion / CD - released 15/Oct/2001 ] "A christmas treat for fans of Rutter's choral music, perhaps best taken in small doses." - Gramophone Magazine (Dec 2001)
add to cart $30.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks JOHN RUTTER Gloria and other sacred music Polyphony / City of London Sinfonia / Stephen Layton [ Hyperion / CD - released 10/Jun/2001 ] Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine (Aug 2001)- 'Delicious performances of Rutter's wonderfully approachable and finely crafted vocal writing. The sound, too, is outstanding.
add to cart $30.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks ARVO PART Choral Music [Incls 'Summa' & 'Da pacem Domine'] Polyphony, Stephen Layton [ Hyperion / CD - released 29/Oct/2014 ] "this one is something special. In part this is because of the choice of repertoire, which mixes the familiar and the less-often heard, and includes two first recordings, and in part it is because of the exquisite sound produced by Polyphony" Gramoph
add to cart $30.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks MORTEN LAURIDSEN Nocturnes Polyphony / Stephen Layton [ Hyperion / CD - released 22/Jan/2007 ] This new disc by Polyphony is certainly a worthy successor to the Grammynominated Lux aeterna (CDA67449). The popular cycles Mid-Winter Songs and Les chansons des roses are joined by four premiere recordings: two early Psalm settings, and two new...
add to cart $30.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks GABRIEL JACKSON Not no faceless Angel Polyphony / Stephen Layton [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Dec/2010 ] "There are many striking features of this ravishing disc, beautifully and imaginatively performed by Stephen Layton and Polyphony. There are hints here and there of Monteverdi, Stravinsky, Poulenc perhaps, yet I sense Jackson's profound affinity with...
add to cart $25.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks BENJAMIN BRITTEN Britten: Sacred and Profane Polyphony, Stephen Layton [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 20/Feb/2013 ] "The programme is delightful and the choir excellent… this has to be one of the strongest winners of the choral award in recent years" (Gramophone)
add to cart $41.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks BRITTEN Sacred And Profane / Five Flower Songs Polyphony / Stephen Layton [ Hyperion / CD - released 21/Sep/2007 ] 'After hearing their latest CD of choral works by Britten, nothing will dissuade me from the conclusion that Polyphony under Stephen Layton is the best chamber choir in the country' (The Evening Standard)
add to cart $25.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks ARVO PART Berliner Messe / Magnificat / De Profundis Polyphony / Stephen Layton (cond), with Andrew Lucas (organ) [ Hyperion Helios / CD - released 28/Aug/2014 ] 'Polyphony's singing is immensely cultivated; bright, clear, immaculately phrased, and gorgeously balanced' (American Record Guide)
add to cart $30.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks ERIKS ESENVALDS Passion and Resurrection / etc Polyphony / Stephen Layton, conductor [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Mar/2011 ] 'Rarely before have I sat in a concert hall and heard a new work that sounded so fresh yet so familiar … Ešenvalds Passion and Resurrection is surely set to become a classic, a position Hyperion's forthcoming CD release of the work should...
add to cart $30.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks JOHN TAVENER Tavener: The Second Coming and other choral works Polyphony. Stephen Layton, conductor [ Hyperion / CD - released 3/Nov/2004 ] 'The power of Tavener at his best is fully unlocked by Polyphony and Stephen Layton, whose sensitivity to the sacred and human in his music communicates in every work on this disc' - Classic FM Magazine
add to cart $26.99 Out of Stock 6+ weeks JOHN TAVENER The Second Coming and other choral works Polyphony Stephen Layton, conductor [ Hyperion SACD / SACD - released 3/Nov/2004 ] On Hybrid Super Audio CD (SACD) format, presented in full 5.1 surround sound! PLAYABLE ON ANY CD SYSTEM - 'The power of Tavener at his best is fully unlocked by Polyphony and Stephen Layton, whose sensitivity to the sacred and human in his music...
add to cart $30.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks WALTON The Twelve / Coronation Te Deum / Drop, Drop, Slow Tears, etc Polyphony, Wallace Collection, Stephen Layton, James Vivian (organ) [ Hyperion / CD - released 4/Jun/2002 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD NOMINATION 2002 - Choral - 'An outstanding collection'
add to cart $30.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks Polyphony/Britten Sinf/Layton Macmillan: Seven Last Words [ Hyperion / CD - released 1/Aug/2005 ]
add to cart $18.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks WILLIAM BYRD / JOHN TAVENER Four Part Mass / 4 Motets / Alternatim Pieces Sacred Polyphony / Pro Cantione Antiqua / Bruno Turner & Mark Brown, directors [ Regis Records / CD - released 18/Oct/2005 ] "..sung with conviction and understanding.." - Organists Review
add to cart $33.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks Stephen Polyphony/Layton Tavener: New Choral Works [ Hyperion / Hybrid SACD - released 30/Aug/2004 ]
add to cart $30.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks ERIC WHITACRE Whitacre: Cloudburst & Other Choral Works Stephen Layton, Polyphony [ Hyperion / CD - released 30/Jan/2006 ] At the age of only 35, Eric Whitacre has already gained a reputation in the United States that many composers strive for a lifetime to achieve. The American Record Guide named his first recording one of the top ten classical albums in 1997, and the...
add to cart $18.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks BURGON / DUBRA / MacMILLAN / MAW / TAVENER / etc Dreamland: Contemporary choral riches from the Hyperion catalogue [special price] Various Artists (Including Holst Singers, Polyphony, Stephen Layton, Choir of Westminster Abbey, James O’Donnell) [ Hyperion / CD - released 20/Oct/2009 ] A new and intriguing sampler features a selection of pieces from Hyperion's extensive and varied choral collection. This disc seeks to give a flavour of the contemporary choral music recorded by Hyperion over the last decade. Whilst on one level it...