David Willcocks News
British choral conductor, organist and composer (1919-2015)
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2023-12-25 04:30:00
Our Favorite Christmas Recordings (CD Reviews)
[…] Ye Merry, Gentlemen; See Amid the Winter's Snow; Past Three O' Clock; Invitatory; Adam Lay Ybounden; Gabriel's Message; (CD2) Once in Royal David's City; Sussex Carol; Rocking; Rejoice and Be Merry; The Cherry Tree Carol; The Three Kings; As with Gladness Men of Old; A Great and Mighty Wonder; The Infant King;Balulalow; The Crown of Roses; Christ Was Born on Christmas Day; Blessed Be That Maid Mary; Lute-Book Lullaby; Myn Lyking; Personent Hodie; In the Bleak Mid-Winter; Coventry Carol; Shepherds in the Field Abiding; Torches; Fantasia on Christmas Carols. Simon Preston, Andrew Davis. organ; The Choir of King’s College; David Willcocks, conductor. Decca B0005302-02. This is the straight stuff, traditional carols sung by a young British choir in a beautiful chapel. As you listen, you can almost close your eyes and imagine yourself at a Christmas Eve candlelight service. A Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas. Joy to the World; Carol of the Bells; I Wonder As I Wander; Whence Is That Goodly Fragrance?; Masters in This Hall; The First Noel; How Far Is It to Bethlehem?; Pat-A-Pan; What Shall We Give to the Babe in the […]
2023-12-03 09:15:00
Norwich-based music writer, Tony Cooper, offers an account of Organ Re-born! a mini-concert series mounted in celebration of the return and rebirth of Norwich Cathedral’s organ.
[…] salute and mark this special occasion. Appropriately, the first concert featured the Norwich Cathedral Chamber Choir comprising around 50 talented amateur singers conducted by Ashley Grote, Master of the Music at Norwich Cathedral since 2012. Offering a brilliant account of the new rebuilt organ David Dunnett, (organist at Norwich Cathedral since 1996 but Master of the Music from 1996 to 2007) performed two great organ showpieces: Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor and David Willcocks’ Sing! a choral arrangement of the ‘Toccata’ from Charles Marie Widor’s Organ Symphony No.5 in F major. All Cambridge men, really, as Dunnett studied at Clare College, Grote at King’s College and, of course, Willcocks enjoyed a long and fruitful relationship with the Choir of King's College, directing it from 1957 to 1974. An enlightening and, indeed, popular concert, the programme included a couple of well-loved choral works with Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms and […]
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2023-10-07 12:56:00
Festival Conductor, Leith Hill Music Festival Applications are invited for the position of Festival Conductor for this prestigious and historic choral festival, in succession to Jonathan Willcocks, who will retire from this role after the April 2024 Festival. Full details of this opportunity can be found at https://www.lhmf.org.uk/festival-conductor Closing date for Applications: 16th October 2023 […]
2021-04-28 23:41:00
Te Deum Arts Management Solutions: Interview with John Rutter 4/30, at 11 am. EDT
[…] recordings and broadcasts. Since 1979 he has divided his time between composition and conducting. Today his compositions, including such concert-length works as Requiem, Magnificat, Mass of the Children, The Gift of Life, and Visions are performed around the world. His music has featured in a number of British royal occasions, including the two most recent royal weddings. He edits the Oxford Choral Classics series, and, with Sir David Willcocks, co-edited four volumes of Carols for Choirs. In 1983 he formed his own choir the Cambridge Singers, with whom he has made numerous recordings, and he appears regularly in several countries as guest conductor and choral ambassador. He holds a Lambeth Doctorate in Music, and in 2007 was awarded a CBE for services to music. TO WATCH LIVE ON YOUTUBE: CLICK HERE TO WATCH ON FACEBOOK: CLICK HERE Beginning […]
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