Stephen Varcoe
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Fauré - Requiem
Recommendedand other sacred music
Caroline Ashton (soprano), Stephen Varcoe (baritone), John Scott (organ) & Simon Standage (violin)
The Cambridge Singers & Members of the City of London Sinfonia, John Rutter (director)
The medium-scale 1893 version of Fauré's spiritual masterpiece finds a loving advocate in John Rutter, with excellent soloists and a lucid-toned choir. — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 1985, Winner - Choral
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Special offer. Songs by Reynaldo Hahn
This two-CD set is the most representative recording of Hahn's songs ever made. It includes the complete Etudes Latines and Rondels (both with choir) as well as many of his most familiar songs.
Dame Felicity Lott (soprano), Susan Bickley (mezzo soprano), Ian Bostridge (tenor), Stephen Varcoe (baritone)
The London Schubert Chorale, Stephen Layton
The two cycles, Douze rondels and Etudes latines, are linked by a common fascination with the past.
The Douze rondels were composed to poems in a medieval metre, which allowed Hahn to try his... — More…2 CDs
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Bach, J S: Mass in B minor, BWV232
RecommendedLynne Dawson, Carol Hall, Nancy Argenta, Mary Nichols, Michael Chance, Ashley Stafford, Wynford Evans, Howard Milner, Andrew Murgatroyd, Lloyd Morgan, Stephen Varcoe
Monteverdi Choir & English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
Gardiner bases his forces on the famous memorandum which Bach handed to the Leipzig town council in 1730 outlining the vocal and instrumental requirements for performances of his church music.... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, 100 Greatest Recordings
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Vivaldi: Gloria & Bach: Magnificat
RecommendedEmma Kirkby, Tessa Bonner (sopranos), Michael Chance (counter-tenor), John Mark Ainsley (tenor), Stephen Varcoe (baritone)
Collegium Musicum 90, Richard Hickox
Hickox sets effective tempos in Bach's Magnificat and points up the many striking contrasts in colour and texture with which the piece abounds. From among the many successful features of the... — More…
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Building a Library, December 2018, Recommended Recording
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Rubbra: Inscape, Op. 122, etc.
RecommendedStephen Varcoe (baritone)
Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chorus, City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Handel: Solomon
RecommendedCarolyn Watkinson, Nancy Argenta & Barbara Hendricks
Monteverdi Choir & English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
With panache [Gardiner] shows how authentic-sized forces can convey Handelian glamour even with sharply focused textures and fast speeds...the overriding glory is the singing of the Monteverdi... — More…
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Special offer. Fauré - The Complete Songs - 2
Un paysage choisi
Jennifer Smith, Geraldine McGreevy, Felicity Lott (sopranos), Stella Doufexis (mezzo), John Mark Ainsley, Jean-Paul Fouchécourt (tenors), Christopher Maltman, Stephen Varcoe (baritones), Graham Johnson (piano)
There's a high standard of singing throughout and… Geraldine McGreevy offers delicacy, shape and direction, combined with an intelligent variety of tone, and Christopher Maltman's more forthright... — More…
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Lalande: De Profundis & Grands Motets
The Choir of New College, Oxford, The King’s Consort, Les Pages et les Chantres de Versailles & La Grande Ecurie et la Chambre du Roy, Edward Higginbottom & Olivier Shneebeli
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Diapason d’Or, April 2018, Réédition
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Special offer. Finzi - Earth and Air and Rain
Five song cycles to words by Thomas Hardy
Clifford Benson (piano), sung by Stephen Varcoe, sung by Martyn Hill
The welcome return of what now seem rather special archive recordings of Finzi's great Hardy settings. Direct, unselfconscious and ever-sentient performances. — More…
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Hummel: Mass in D minor & Salve regina
Susan Gritton, Rachel Nicholls, Pamela Helen Stephen, Mark Padmore & Stephen Varcoe
Collegium Musicum 90, Richard Hickox
…the Salve Regina… is an amiable continuation of the Viennese Classical tradition… Susan Gritton sings it with gusto, while she and the other soloists form a well-blended quartet in the Mass,... — More…
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