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  • Missa Sabrinensis  Performers : The Bach Choir, BBC Concert Orchestra with Helena Dix (soprano), Christine Rice (mezzo-sop), Benjamin Hulett (tenor) and Roderick Williams (baritone) conducted by David Hill. The CD also contains "Michael A Fanfare Setting" arranged by Christopher Palmer and David Hill. Recorded 2019.  Hyperion CDA 68294. Release: May 2020
  • Howells ‘Cello Concerto; An English Mass             King’s College CD label KGS0032
    ​Te Deum (Collegium Regale) orchestrated by Howells 1977; An English Mass ; Magnificat (Collegium Regale) orchestrated by John Rutter (World premiere recording) .
    Choir of King’s College Cambridge, Britten Sinfonia, conducted by Stephen Cleobury and Ben Parry. Canticles tracks include King’s Voices.
    This is the final CD to be issued by the King’s label before the retirement in September 2019 of Sir Stephen Cleobury after 37 years as Organist and Director of Music at King’s.
    Recorded 2018/19
  • Stabat Mater; Sine Nomine; Coll Reg Te Deum                                           Naxos 8.573176 DDD
Stabat Mater; Sine Nomine; Coll Reg Te Deum (world premiere recording in the orchestral version)
Benjamin Hulett (ten); Alison Hill (sop); The Bach Choir; Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra conducted by David Hill.  Recorded 2013
  • Howells  Hymnus Paradisi & Sir Patrick Spens                                              Naxos 8.570352  DDD
Hymnus Paradisi; Sir Patrick Spens ** World premiere recording
Claire Rutter (sop); James Gilchrist (ten); Roderick Williams (bar); Katy Butler (sop). The Bach Choir & Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra conducted by David Hill. Recorded 2006
  • Hymnus Paradisi & A Kent Yeoman’s Wooing Song                                   Chandos CHAN 9744 DDD
Reissued as CHAN 10727 X
Joan Rogers (sop); Anthony Rolfe Johnson (ten); Alan Opie (bar)  BBC Symphony Chorus and Orchestra conducted by Richard Hickox. Recorded 1998
  • Howells Missa Sabrinensis & Stabat Mater                                   Chandos CHAN 241-27 2 disc set
Originally issued as CHAN 9348 with Missa Sabrinensis only
Janice Watson (sop); Della Jones (mezzo); Martyn Hill (ten); Donald Maxwell (bar); Neil Archer (ten); London Symphony Chorus  and Orchestra conducted by Gennady Rozhdestvensky. Recorded 1994
  • Music from the Coronation of HM QE II                                          Cantoris CSACD 3050 DDD
Includes Behold, O God, our Defender (only recording with orchestra)
Westminster Abbey Choir; English Chamber Orchestra;  Martin Baker (organ) Conducted by Martin Neary. Recorded 1993 & 1994.
  • St Paul’s Christmas Concert                                                                   RPO records CDRPO 7021 DDD
A Maid Peerless** World premiere recording with orchestra (also A Spotless Rose)
Choir of St Paul’s Cathedral; RPO conducted by John Scott. Recorded 1992
  • Hymnus Paradisi & An English Mass                                                                  Hyperion CDA 66488 DDD
Julie Kennard (sop); John Mark Ainsley (ten); Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra conducted by Vernon Handley. Recorded 1991
  • Hymnus Paradisi * & Fantasia for ‘Cello & Orchestra #                        
               BBC Classics / Carlton Classics 15656 91982 ADD
*April Cantelo (sop); David Johnston (ten); Three Choirs Festival Chorus / RPO conducted by Dr Donald Hunt.  Recorded 1977 Gloucester Cathedral
# Alexander Bailie (‘cello); BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Norman del Mar. Recorded 1982
  • Howells Hymnus Paradisi                                                                        EMI CDM 7 63372 2 ADD
Hymnus Paradisi [world premiere recording] (also includes Finzi: Dies Natalis)
Heather Harper (sop); Robert Tear (ten)  The Bach Choir, Choir of King’s College Cambridge, New Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Sir David Willcocks.  Recorded 1970 (originally issued as an LP)