Polyphony & Stephen Layton

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Sleep 05:34 Tools
Lux aurumque 04:09 Tools
Cloudburst 08:26 Tools
Water Night 05:03 Tools
A Boy and a Girl 04:25 Tools
Three Songs of Praise: No 3: I Thank You God for Most This Amazing Day 06:05 Tools
This Marriage 02:59 Tools
When David Heard 12:57 Tools
Three Flower Songs: No 1: I Hide Myself 02:51 Tools
Three Flower Songs: No 3: Go, Lovely Rose 04:07 Tools
Three Flower Songs: No 2: With a Lily In Your Hand 02:27 Tools
Her Sacred Spirit Soars 05:08 Tools
Three Songs of Praise: No 1: I Will Wade Out 02:45 Tools
Three Songs of Praise: No 2: Hope, Faith, Life, Love 03:50 Tools
O magnum mysterium 06:40 Tools
Ave Maria 06:44 Tools
Ubi caritas et amor 07:02 Tools
Madrigali - Six 'Fire Songs' On Italian Renaissance Poems: No. 2. Quando Son più Lontan 04:18 Tools
Long Road 07:02 Tools
Nocturnes : II. Soneto de la noche 00:30 Tools
Madrigali - Six 'Fire Songs' On Italian Renaissance Poems: No. 1. Ov'è, Lass': Il Bel Viso? 00:30 Tools
Madrigali - Six 'Fire Songs' On Italian Renaissance Poems: No. 4. Io Piango 00:30 Tools
Go, Lovely Rose 04:07 Tools
Madrigali - Six 'Fire Songs' On Italian Renaissance Poems: No. 6. Se Per Havervi, Oime 04:22 Tools
Les chansons des roses : V. Dirait-on 00:30 Tools
Madrigali - Six 'Fire Songs' On Italian Renaissance Poems: No. 5. Luci Serene e Chiare 02:48 Tools
i will wade out 02:46 Tools
With a lily in your hand 02:27 Tools
hope, faith, life, love 03:51 Tools
Madrigali - Six 'Fire Songs' On Italian Renaissance Poems: No. 3. Amor: Io Sento l'alma 01:52 Tools
i thank You God for most this amazing day 06:06 Tools
Les chansons des roses : II. Contre qui, rose 03:18 Tools
I hide myself 02:51 Tools
Salve regina 00:30 Tools
I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes 03:14 Tools
Jenkins: Adiemus - Songs Of Sanctuary - Cantate Domino 05:40 Tools
Les chansons des roses : IV. La rose complète 04:43 Tools
Exsultate, jubilate 00:30 Tools
Jenkins: Gloria - I'll Make Music 00:30 Tools
Gloria: I'll Make Music 05:40 Tools
The Peacemakers: Healing Light 05:40 Tools
Jenkins: The Armed Man - A Mass For Peace - Benedictus 05:10 Tools
Les chansons des roses : I. En une seule fleur 02:20 Tools
Les chansons des roses : III. De ton rêve trop plein 02:14 Tools
Three Flower Songs: II. With a Lily in Your Hand 05:40 Tools
Christus FActus Est 06:07 Tools
Virga Jesse Floruit 03:50 Tools
Os Iusti Meditabitur 05:03 Tools
O Sacrum Convivium 06:26 Tools
A Hymn to the Virgin 00:30 Tools
Jenkins: Adiemus - Songs Of Sanctuary - Ave Maria 05:10 Tools
Jenkins: The Healer - A Cantata For St Luke's - The Shepherd 05:10 Tools
Jenkins: Stabat mater - Ave verum corpus 05:10 Tools
Locus Iste a Deo Factus Est 03:04 Tools
A Boy and a Girl - Octavio Paz 03:04 Tools
Quatre Motets Pour Le Temps de Noël: IV. Hodie Christus Natus Est 03:04 Tools
Quatre Motets Pour Le Temps de Noël: III. Videntes Stellam 03:04 Tools
Quatre Motets Pour Le Temps de Noël: II. Quem Vidistis Pastores Dicite 03:04 Tools
Quatre Motets Pour Le Temps de Noël: I. O Magnum Mysterium 03:04 Tools
To Morning 00:30 Tools
Three Carols, Op. 25: II. Lully, Lulla, Thou Little Tiny Child 00:30 Tools
Ave Maris Stella 00:30 Tools
Quatre Motets Pour un Temps de Pénitence: I. Timor Et Tremor 00:30 Tools
What cheer? 00:30 Tools
Jenkins: The Armed Man - A Mass For Peace - God Shall Wipe Away All Tears 00:30 Tools
Jenkins: Gloria - Laudamus te 00:30 Tools
Orbis Patrator Optime 06:53 Tools
Sleep - Charles Anthony Silvestri 06:53 Tools
Cecilia Virgo 07:52 Tools
Three Carol-Anthems: II. A Spotless Rose 07:52 Tools
Song 'I Gaze Upon You' 03:47 Tools
Magnificat 05:40 Tools
Hymn to the Trinity 05:40 Tools
i thank You God for most this amazing day - E.E. Cummings 05:40 Tools
Chorale After an Old French Carol: 05:40 Tools
Adiemus, Songs of Sanctuary: Ave Maria 05:40 Tools
The Sussex Mummer's Christmas Carol 05:40 Tools
This Marriage - Jalal al-Din Rumi 05:40 Tools
Weihnachtslieder, Op. 8: III. Die Könige 05:40 Tools
Three Carol-Anthems: III. Sing lullaby 05:40 Tools
Lux aurumque - Edward Esch / Charles Anthony Silvestri 05:40 Tools
When David heard - II Samuel 18:33 05:40 Tools
Jenkins: The Armed Man - A Mass For Peace - 10. Agnus Dei 05:40 Tools
hope, faith, life, love - E.E. Cummings 05:40 Tools
Exultate Deo 05:40 Tools
Jenkins: Requiem - Pie Jesu 05:40 Tools
Weihnachtslieder, Op. 8, No. 3: Die Könige 05:40 Tools
Gloria: Laudamus te 05:40 Tools
Three Songs of Praise: III. I Thank You God for Most This Amazing Day 05:40 Tools
Sieben Magnificat-Antiphonen: V. O Morgenstern 05:40 Tools
With a lily in your hand - Federico García Lorca 05:40 Tools
All This Time 05:40 Tools
Her sacred spirit soars - Charles Anthony Silvestri 05:40 Tools
Cloudburst - Octavio Paz 05:40 Tools
The Peacemakers: Dona nobis pacem 05:40 Tools
Quatre Motets Pour un Temps de Pénitence: II. Vinea Mea Electa 00:30 Tools
Pange lingua 05:10 Tools
Jenkins: Exsultate, jubilate 05:10 Tools
Jenkins: Locus iste 05:10 Tools
Quatre Motets Pour un Temps de Pénitence: IV. Tristis Est Anima Mea 05:10 Tools
Drei Chorgesänge, Op. 11, No. 1: Der Tod, Das Ist Die Kühle Nacht 05:10 Tools
Jenkins: The Peacemakers - Healing Light 05:10 Tools
Requiem 'Seele, Vergiß Sie Nicht' 08:07 Tools
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From http://www.polyphony.co.uk/polyphony_biography.htm Polyphony was formed by Stephen Layton in 1986 for a concert in King's College Chapel, Cambridge. Since then the choir has performed and recorded regularly to critical acclaim throughout the world. Recent reviews declare Polyphony 'one of the best small choirs now before the public' (Daily Telegraph) and 'possibly the best small professional chorus in the world' (Encore Magazine, USA). For more than a decade Polyphony has given annual sell-out performances of Bach's St John Passion and Handel's Messiah at St John's Smith Square. These have become notable events in London's music calendar and have been broadcast by BBC Radio 3 and the EBU. According to the Evening Standard 'no one but no one performs Handel's Messiah better every year than the choir Polyphony', and the Times 'would rate it among the finest John Passions I have ever heard'. Polyphony's performance highlights include several BBC Proms, among them Arvo Pärt's Passio, and Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, regular festival performances, most recently at Aldeburgh and at the RTE Living Music Festival in Dublin, and numerous première performances. These include works by John Tavener in honour of his 60th birthday as part of the Barbican's Great Performers series, and works by Arvo Pärt and Pawel Lukaszewski. Other broadcast highlights have been performances of works by Poulenc, Rautavaara, Tormis, Britten and Grainger for BBC Radio 3, works by Arvo Pärt for RTE, and an EBU broadcast of Bach's Christmas Oratorio. Performances abroad include concerts in France, Spain, Brazil, Denmark and Hungary. Polyphony's extensive discography on Hyperion encompasses works by Britten, Bruckner, Cornelius, Grainger, Grieg, Jackson, Lauridsen, Lukaszewski, MacMillan, Pärt, Poulenc, Rutter, Tavener, Walton, and Whitacre. The CD of Britten, Sacred and Profane, won a Gramophone Award and a Diapason d'Or in 2001, and the choir's première recording of works by Arvo Pärt, Triodion, was Best of Category (Choral) at the 2004 Gramophone Awards. Polyphony also received Gramophone Award nominations in 2002 for the Walton CD, and in 2008 for Poulenc's Gloria, described by Gramophone Magazine as 'a performance of real distinction … simply incredible'. In the USA, Polyphony's recordings have twice been nominated for Grammy Awards: in 2006 for Lux aeterna, a disc of works by Morten Lauridsen, and in 2007 for a CD of works by Eric Whitacre, Cloudburst. This 'staggering disc' (BBC Radio 3) spent more than fifty weeks in the Billboard Classical Album Chart, and has been hailed by the Times as 'extraordinarily beautiful', by CNN as 'outstanding', and by Classic FM Magazine as 'unmissable'. Polyphony's latest release is Lukaszewski's Via Crucis with Britten Sinfonia, described as 'exquisitely sung' (The Guardian), and 'delivered with passionate, almost frightening intensity ... from Polyphony under Stephen Layton's inspired direction one expects no less' (International Record Review). For further information or to join Polyphony’s mailing list, please visit www.polyphony.co.uk Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.