A Canterbury Celebration

Thomas Armstrong (Composer), Edward Bairstow (Composer), Sidney Campbell (Composer), Norman Cocker (Composer), Orlando Gibbons (Composer), Francis Jackson (Composer), Gerald Knight (Composer), Samuel [composer] Porter (Composer), Alan Ridout (Composer), Thomas Tallis (Composer), Ralph Vaughan Williams (Composer), Allan Wicks (Conductor)

Product Details

• Conductor: Allan Wicks
• Composer: Thomas Armstrong, Edward Bairstow, Sidney Campbell, Norman Cocker, Orlando Gibbons, et al.
• Audio CD (February 20, 1996)
• SPARS Code: DDD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Guild
• ASIN: B000025YOO
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #897,786 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Canterbury Cathedral Choir and Allan Wicks, February 22, 2005

By	R. P. Astridge "Richard Astridge" (Liverpool, UK) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This recording was really the great Allan Wicks' swansong, made before he retired from Canterbury Cathedral. The Choir, as ever, are spot on, diction is totally perfect, the tone not stuffy, but clear and rather continental. They were then, and still remain now, a tribute to what can be achieved away from the hooting falsetto style tone we have had to suffer for far too long. Canterbury deservedly ranks among our very finest world Choirs.The Organ solos are played by Allan Wicks, and the Ridout is a piece to really show how magnificent the Organ really is. If that is not enough to convince, the Cocker is given excellent treatment, with a glorious crescendo, and the Solo Tuba on fine speech. Here is one who knows this grand Father Willis organ very well indeed. The recording is also excellent, the very resonant nave acoustic has been caught accurately, and everything sounds as it should. Wicks has long retired from Canterbury and has been replaced by the equally gifted David Flood, but this CD shows clearly what a cultured musician and Choirmaster Wicks was, and any lover of the English choral Tradition will want this in their library.