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Convivium Records: What the critics say
Osgood’s Sacred Choral Music – “Attractively melodic music from a young contemporary composer, in engaging performances” ★★★ (Planet Hugill)
Clive Osgood's Sacred Choral Music (CR049) Review by Planet Hugill Listen and buy now on Convivium Records Clive Osgood is perhaps not a name well known to everybody, but this disc of his sacred music on Convivium Records should [...]
O Nata Lux – “For when you want to escape the hustle and bustle” (Julian Elloway, CMQ)
O Nata Lux: Contemplative Christmas Classics (CR044) Review by Julian Elloway, Church Music Quarterly Listen and buy now on Convivium Records The Gentlemen Singers are a professional male octet from Hradec Králové in the Czech Republic, who champion sacred music [...]
Lumen de Lumine – “Committed and convincing performances throughout” (Nick Boston, Classical Notes)
Lumen de Lumine: Contemplative Christmas Classics (CR046) Review by Nick Boston, Classical Notes Listen and buy now on Convivium Records The London based amateur chamber choir Lumen, directed by Benjamin Thiele-Long, has released a fascinating disc of new unaccompanied choral works. The recording [...]
Illuminations: Dances and Poems – “Truly exceptional new music” (Carson Cooman, Fanfare)
Illumina Duo: Illuminations: Dances and Poems (CR039) Review by Carson Cooman, Fanfare Listen and buy now on Convivium Records Trumpet and organ is a very common musical combination. Despite the rather large number of original duo compositions written in the [...]
Illumina Duo – “A big and stable sound that never becomes strident” (American Record Guide)
Dances, Illuminations & Poems (CR039) Review by American Record Guide Listen and buy on Convivium Records A program of recent works, performed by the Illumina Duo: trumpeter Ellie Lovegrove and organist Richard Moore. The opener, Dan Locklair’s nine-minute Phoenix Processional (1998), [...]
Locklair: Gloria – “Enthusiastically received by an international audience” (The American Organist)
Gloria by Dan Locklair (CR033) Review by The American Organist Listen and buy on Convivium Records Native North Carolinian Dan Locklair enjoys a position of prominence among living composers. Trained as an organist and church musician as well as a composer, [...]
Handel: Neun Deutsche Arien – “A pleasure from first note to last” (Catherine Bott)
Handel: Neun Deutsche Arien (CR043) Review by Catherine Bott Listen and buy now on Convivium Records This recital of Handel’s ravishing German Arias is a pleasure from first note to last: recorded in an ideally intimate acoustic, with varied, sensitive [...]
Mozart: Requiem – “Lovingly prepared and presented” (Gramophone)
Mozart: Requiem (CR036) Review by Gramophone Listen and buy now on Convivium Records I fear this disc of Mozart’s valedictory masterpiece may fall into the shadow of another (rather different) recording, reviewed above. Such is the peril of taking on such [...]
Mozart: Requiem – “A unique group of young singers who perform to the highest standards” (Cross Rhythms)
Mozart: Requiem (CR036) Review by Cross Rhythms Listen and buy now on Convivium Records Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) is one of the giants of classical music and it is my considered opinion that anyone who claims to love music [...]
Mozart: Requiem – “Appealing, lively and fresh, coping with the technical demands admirably” ★★★★ (Planet Hugill)
Mozart: Requiem (CR036) Review by Robert Hugill Listen and buy now on Convivium Records This new recording of Mozart's Requiem (in the Süssmayr completion) on Convivium Records combines the young singers from Winchester College Chapel Choir with the London Mozart Players under the baton of Malcolm Archer, director of [...]
Handel: Neun Deutsche Arien – “Engaging and colourful version of Handel’s sacred chamber music” ★★★★★ (Planet Hugill)
Handel: Neun Deutsche Arien (CR043) Review by Planet Hugill Listen and buy now on Convivium Records Though Handel and Bach had a similar basic kapellmeister training, the two developed different responses to Lutheran sacred music. Handel does not seem to [...]
Angels of Creation – “Words alone cannot begin to describe the emotional and dramatic content of this outstanding programme…” (Organists’ Review)
Angels of Creation (CR034) Review by Organists' Review Listen and Buy on Convivium Records There is a palpable freshness about this exciting and eclectic programme. Every composer brings his own harmonic and melodic palette to the table. Words alone cannot [...]