Recordings
Album title: ‘Music of the Sistine Chapel’ See Anthologies and Miscellanies;
HMV 5743712 (EMI) and VER 5613092 (Virgin)
J S BACH Brandenburg Concertos
VC 5617262 (Virgin)
Parrott / Taverner Players / Soli: John Holloway, Marion Verbruggen,
John Toll, Paul Goodwin, Janet See, David Staff
performances of revelatory grace, richness, intensity and life (TheTimes)
J S BACH Cantatas 82 and 202
CDA 66036 (Hyperion)
Parrott / Taverner Consort & Players / Soli: Emma Kirkby, David Thomas
a very special release (Fanfare)
(Cantata 202 also available on The Emma Kirkby Collection, CDA 66227)
J S BACH Easter Oratorio / Magnificat / Cantatas 4 & 11
VBD 5616472 (Virgin) , VCL 5616472 (CEM) and VC 5450112 (Virgin Veritas)
Parrott / Taverner Consort & Players / Soli: Emily Van Evera, Caroline Trevor,
Charles Daniels, Peter Kooy, David Thomas
this is just about the perfect Easter CD (CD Review)
J S BACH Magnificat / Ascension Oratorio / Cantata 50
VN 5613402 (Virgin)
Parrott / Taverner Consort & Players / Soli: Emily Van Evera, Emma Kirkby,
Evelyn Tubb, Caroline Trevor, Margaret Cable, Howard Crook,
Wilfried Jochens, Simon Grant, Stephen Charlesworth
performances full of sparkle and musical insight (Gramophone)
J S BACH Magnificat / HANDEL Dixit Dominus
CDC 7549262 (EMI)
Parrott / Taverner Consort, Choir & Players
an exquisite release (The Independent)
J S BACH Mass in B minor
VMD 5613372 (Virgin) and VBD 5619982 (Virgin Veritas)
Parrott / Taverner Consort and Players / Soli: Emma Kirkby, Emily Van Evera, Panito Iconomou,
Christian Immler, Michael Kilian, Rogers Covey-Crump, David Thomas
Die aufregendste Chor-Aufnahme des Bach-Jahres…eine Sensation (Süd-Deutsche Zeitung)
J S BACH St John Passion
VBD 5450562 (Virgin) and VCD 5450962 (Virgin Veritas)
Parrott / Taverner Consort & Players / Soli: Rogers Covey-Crump,
David Thomas, Tessa Bonner, Emily Van Evera, Caroline Trevor
c’est donc cette nouvelle version qui s’impose (Telerama)
J S BACH Orchestral Works
including Brandenburg Concertos, Orchestral Suites, Sonatas for gamba and harpsichord
VB 5617262 (Virgin)
Parrott / Taverner Players and the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra
stylish and intelligent (LA Times)
J S BACH Sinfonias and Sonatas
Album title: ‘A Baroque Festival’ VER 5613042 (Virgin)
or Baroque Classics CDM 7698532 (EMI) /
See ‘Baroque Miscellany’ in Anthologies and Miscellanies
J S BACH Trauer-Music
Music to mourn Prince Leopold BWV 244a
AV2241 (Avie)
Parrott/Taverner Consort & Players
Emily Van Evera, Clare Wilkinson, Charles Daniels, Thomas Meglioranza
Effortlessly lovely performances and a richly rewarding recording as well. BBC Radio 3 CD Review
Click here for French and German programme notes.
J S BACH Trauerode / Komm, Jesu, Komm / Jesu, meine Freude
Album title: ‘Heart’s Solace’
SK 60155 (SONY)
Parrott / Taverner Consort & Players / Soli: Emily Van Evera, Tessa Bonner,
Caroline Trevor, Charles Daniels, Christian Hilz
the most thrilling and incisive choral singing you are ever likely to encounter (The Observer)
BROWNE O Maria salvatoris Mater / Stabat Mater dolorosa
Album title: ‘Masterworks from late-medieval England and Scotland’
See Anthologies and Miscellanies;
CDC 7496612 (EMI)
BROWNE Stabat mater dolorosa
Album title: ‘Stabat Mater’
See Anthologies and Miscellanies;
VC 5452722 (Virgin Classics)
CARVER O bone Jesu / Gaude flore virginali
Album title: ‘Masterworks from late-medieval England and Scotland’
See Anthologies and Miscellanies;
CDC 7496612 (EMI)
Album title: ‘Music for St Mark’s Venice’
See Anthologies and Miscellanies’;
HMV 5734772 (EMI)
CHRISTMAS ALBUMS
See Anthologies and Miscellanies
G. GABRIELI Canzonas / sonatas / motets
CDC 7542652 (EMI)
Parrott / Taverner Choir, Consort & Players
simply outstanding…a must for any serious listener (Historic Brass Society)
GABRIELI Intonatione del Nono Tono / Fuga del Nono Tono /
In ecclesiis / Canzon VIII / Magnificat
Album title: ‘Music for St Mark’s Venice’
See Anthologies and Miscellanies;
HMV 5734772 (EMI)
GESUALDO Tenebrae Responses for Good Friday (Responsoria, 1611)
SK 62977 2 (SONY)
Parrott / Taverner Consort
sure to become a best-seller (BBC Music Magazine)
HANDEL Arrival of the Queen of Sheba / Harp Concerto Op 4 /No 6
Album title: ‘A Baroque Festival’ VER 5613042 (Virgin)
or Baroque Classics CDM 7698532 (EMI) /
See ‘Baroque Miscellany’ in Anthologies and Miscellanies
HANDEL Carmelite Vespers (1707)
VBD 5615792 (Virgin)
Parrott / Taverner Choir & Players / Soli: Jill Feldman / Emma Kirkby / Emily Van Evera /
Margaret Cable / Mary Nichols / Joseph Cornwell / David Thomas
the overall effect of this reconstruction…is stunning (High Fidelity)
HANDEL Dixit Dominus / JS BACH Magnificat
CDC 7549262 (EMI)
Parrott / Taverner Choir
an exquisite release (Independent)
HANDEL Israel in Egypt
VMD 5613502 (Virgin)
Parrott / Taverner Choir & Players Soli: Nancy Argenta, Emily Van Evera,
Timothy Wilson, Anthony Rolfe-Johnson, David Thomas, Jeremy White
this one is a must! (BBC Radio 3)
HANDEL Messiah
VBD5620042 (Virgin)
Parrott / Taverner Choir & Players / Soli: Emma Kirkby, Emily Van Evera, Margaret Cable,
James Bowman, Joseph Cornwell, David Thomas
a breathtaking new performance…that challenges the finest available (Sunday Times)
HANDEL Messiah: Highlights
CDM 764927 (EMI)
Parrott / Taverner Choir and Players
HANDEL, arr. Mozart: Messiah
Z 67432 (Arabesque)
Parrott / Handel and Haydn Society Chorus and Orchestra
an excellent case for this version of the oratorio (Amazon.com)
‘HEART’S SOLACE’
SK 60155 (SONY) See ‘JS BACH Trauerode’
JOSQUIN Missa ‘Ave maris stella’ / motets / chansons
CDC 7546592 (EMI)
Parrott / Taverner Consort & Choir / Harp: Andrew Lawrence-King
a must for any Josquin fan (TheTimes)
JOSQUIN Pater noster / Ave Maria
Album Title: ‘Music of the Sistine Chapel’ See Anthologies and Miscellanies;
HMV 5743712 (EMI) and VER 5613092 (Virgin)
Album title: ‘Music for St Mark’s Venice’
See Anthologies and Miscellanies
HMV 5734772 (EMI) ‘
LOTTI Crucifixus a 6 / Crucifixus a 10
Album title: Music for St Markís Veniceí
See Anthologies and Miscellanies
HMV 5734772 (EMI)
4898982 (Virgin)
Parrott / Taverner Choir
a superb example of the best kind of authenticity (Independent)
MONTEVERDI Madrigals of war and love (1638)
CDC 7543332 (EMI)
Parrott / Taverner Consort & Players
a brilliant window into this repertory (The Times)
MONTEVERDI Mass of Thanksgiving (Venice 1631)
CDS 7498762 (EMI)
Parrott / Taverner Consort, Choir & Players
a superb achievement (Telegraph)
MONTEVERDI Selva morale e spirituale (1640)
Winner of 1984 AVRO PUBLIEKSTROFEE
CDS 7548862 (EMI) and CDS 7548862 (EMI).
With Monteverdi Vespers (1610): VBD 5616622 (Virgin)
Parrott / Taverner Consort, Choir & Players / Soli: Emma Kirkby,
Rogers Covey-Crump, Nigel Rogers, David Thomas
I have been moved to exaltation by this issue (Hi-Fi News)
MONTEVERDI Vespers (1610)
VMB 5613472 (Virgin Veritas) and CDS 7470788.
With Monteverdi Selva morale e spirituale:VBD 5616622 (Virgin) and and VCL 561662 (CEM)
Parrott / Taverner Consort, Choir & Players Soli: Emma Kirkby,
Rogers Covey-Crump, Nigel Rogers, David Thomas
a giant step ahead of any previous version (Fanfare)
MONTEVERDI Adoramus te, Christe / Exulte, filia Sion /
Currite populi / Christe, adoramus te
Album title: ‘Music for St Mark’s Venice’
See Anthologies and Miscellanies
HMV 5734772 (EMI)
Album Title: ‘Music of the Sistine Chapel’ See Anthologies and Miscellanies;
HMV 5743712 (EMI) and VER 5613092 (Virgin)
CO 79573 (Aliare)
Parrott / Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra and Chorus
one of those original recordings which may forever change the way you hear a great work (Stereo Review)
MOZART Requiem
Denon 81757 91522
Parrott / Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra and Chorus
Soli: Jane Bryden, Mary Westbrook Geha, William Hite, William Bastian,
William Sharp, Stephen Richardson
this record is really outstanding (BBC Radio 3)
OUT of the NIGHT
Album of Arvo Pärt / John Tavener
SK61753 (SONY) See Anthologies and Miscellanies
Album title: A Baroque Festival VER 5613042 (Virgin)
or Baroque Classics CDM 7698532 (EMI) /
See ‘Baroque Miscellany’ in Anthologies and Miscellanies
PALESTRINA Stabat mater / Jubilate Deo / Dum complerentur dies Pentecostes
Album title: ‘Music of the Sistine Chapel’
See Anthologies and Miscellanies
HMV 5743712 (EMI) and VER 5613092 (Virgin)
PALESTRINA Stabat mater
Album title: Stabat Mater See ‘Anthologies and Miscellanies’
VC 5452722 (Virgin)
PÄRT Magnificat / Sieben Magnificat-Antiphonen / Fratres SK 61753
Album title: ‘Out of the Night’
SK61753 (SONY) See Anthologies and Miscellanies
PÄRT Stabat mater
Album title: Stabat Mater See Anthologies and Miscellanies
VC 5452722 (Virgin)
VM 5613532 (Virgin)
Parrott / Taverner Consort, Choir & Player / Soli: Emma Kirkby, Nigel Rogers, David Thomas
every note of the score comes winningly to life (Gramophone)
CHAN 8603 (Chandos)
Parrott / Taverner Choir & Players / Soli: Emma Kirkby, Judith Nelson,
Jantina Noorman, David Thomas
the most truthfully dramatic Dido we are likely to hear (Early Music)
PURCELL Dido and Aeneas
SK 62993 (SONY)
Parrott / Taverner Choir & Players / Soli: Emily Van Evera, Ben Parry,
Janet Lax, Hanne Mari Orbaek, Haden Andrews
a performance that charms as well as moves in abundance (BBC Music Magazine)
PURCELL: Music for Queen Mary
VC 5451592 (Virgin Classics)
Birthday Song for Queen Mary 1694 (Come ye sons of art) /
Welcome to all the pleasures / Funeral Sentences / Funeral music for Queen Mary
Parrott / Taverner Consort, Choir & Players
a Purcell record unequalled in the catalogue (Observer)
PURCELL Hail! Bright Cecilia, Come ye sons of art, Welcome to all the pleasures
VC 5615822 (Virgin Classics) 2 CD set
Parrott / Taverner Choir, Consort & Players
by far the best that has been recorded (Observer)
PURCELL Suite of Theatre Music, Three Parts upon a Ground
Album title: ‘A Baroque Festival’ VER 5613042 (Virgin)
or Baroque Classics CDM 7698532 (EMI) /
See ‘Baroque Miscellany’ in Anthologies and Miscellanies
PURCELL Choral and Chamber Works
VC 5450612 (Virgin)
Te Deum and Jubilate / In guilty night / My beloved spake /
Pavans Nos 1-4 / Beati omnes qui timent Dominum / Jehova, quam multi sunt hostes mei
Parrott / Taverner Choir and Players / Soli: Rachel Wheatley, Rachel Platt,
Angus Davidson, Simon Berridge, Rogers Covey-Crump, Simon Grant
quite simply stunning (Chicago Tribune)
The Pocket Purcell: A Tercentenary Tribute
VC5451162 (Virgin) See ‘Anthologies and Miscellanies’
VM 5613532 (Virgin)
Parrott / Taverner Consort, Choir & Player / Soli: Emma Kirkby, Nigel Rogers, David Thomas
Una ‘Stravaganza’ dei Medici: Intermedi (1589) per ‘La Pellegrina’
Winner of the 1989 EDISON AWARD
HMV 5738632 (EMI)
Parrott / Taverner Consort, Choir & Players / Soli: Tessa Bonner, Emma Kirkby,
Emily Van Evera, Nigel Rogers
a glorious affirmation of that Power of Music which is itself the central theme of the 1589 intermedi (Gramophone)
Una ‘Stravaganza’ dei Medici: Intermedi (1589) per ‘La Pellegrina’ film
Winner of: 1990 PRIX ITALIA Special Prize
1991 GOLDEN GATE AWARD (San Francisco International Film Festival)
Video MVD 9912323 Laserdisc LDB 9912321 (EMI)
Parrott / Taverner Consort, Choir & Players
Few television programmes are likely to win Renaissance music more admirers (Listener)
TAVENER Out of the Night / Canticle of the Mother of God / Threnos
Album title: ‘Out of the Night’ See Anthologies and Miscellanies
SK 61753 (SONY)
TAVERNER Mass Gloria tibi Trinitas a6
CDC 7491032 (EMI)
Parrott / Taverner Choir
sharp, crystal-clear singing ( Observer)
TAVERNER Quemadmodum / O splendor gloriae
Album title: ‘Masterworks from late-medieval England and Scotland’
See Anthologies and Miscellanies
CDC 7496612 (EMI)
TALLIS Latin Church Music I: Spem in alium a 40, complete responds
CDC 749555 (EMI)
Parrott’s choir is unbeatable (BBC Radio 3)
TALLIS Latin Church Music II: Gaude gloriosa Dei mater, Lamentations I & II,
motets from Cantiones Sacrae (1575)
CDC 7495632 (EMI)
Parrott / Taverner Consort & Choir
VIVALDI Clarae stellae, scintillate
Album title: ‘Music for St Mark’s Venice’
See Anthologies and Miscellanies;
HMV 5734772 (EMI)
VIVALDI The Four Seasons
VC 5451172 (Virgin)
Parrott / Taverner Players / Soli: Chiara Banchini, Alison Bury,
Elizabeth Wallfisch, John Holloway
without qualification the best performance of this warhorse of warhorses (New York Times)
VIVALDI Gloria / Magnificat
VC 7593262 (Virgin)
Parrott / Taverner Choir & Players / Soli: Emily Van Evera / Nancy Argenta /
Alison Place / Catherine King / Margaret Cable
imaginative and different from all the Glorias you’ve heard hitherto (BBC Radio 3)
VIVALDI ‘Maestro de Concerti’
VER 5612752 (Virgin)
Parrott / Taverner Players Soli: John Holloway, Roy Goodman, Jenny Ward Clarke,
Susan Sheppard, Marion Verbruggen, Janet See, David Reichenberg
One’s highest expecations are fulfilled (STRAD)