Recordings by Bath Camerata

Bath Camerata has an extensive discography. The choir’s most recent release Songs of Renewal (SOMM Recordings 2019) is a powerful collection of contemporary British choral works and includes two new commissions: Songs of Renewal (Will Todd) and Everyone Sang (Roderick Williams). The CD also features recent works by Jonathan Dove, Judith Weir, Tarik O’Regan, Cecilia McDowall and Huw Watkins. Songs of Renewal was awarded five stars in Choir & Organ magazine, it was featured on BBC Radio 3’s Record Review, in The Observer’s Summer Round-up and was a recommended disc in the BBC Music Magazine.

 

Listen to excerpts from Songs of Renewal

BBC Radio 3 Record review

 [About Will Todd’s Songs of Renewal] “Cleverly written for maximum impact, with challenges well within this fine choral group’s means”

Andrew McGregor, BBC Radio 3’s Record Review

Listen to the programme: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0002zkh

BBC Music Magazine

“Will Todd’s thrilling title work is a real showstopper for the versatile and virtuoslc Bath choir; it’s just one of two commissions recorded for the first time for this delightful disc. 4*” 

Michael Beek, BBC Music Magazine

The Guardian

“I’d also recommend…..Songs of Renewal…… a cornucopia from Bath Camerata”

Fiona Maddocks, The Guardian

Read the full review: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/jul/07/dream-of-the-rood-john-casken-review-paths-erika-fox-gary-carpenter-set

Limelight magazine

“Goodson and his singers make strong advocates, often against stiff competition. …..the Camerata makes a good case for their larger forces, able to heighten the dramatic scope of Watkins’s lovely Shakespeare-setting and create a more marked contrast between Dove’s piquant piano accompaniment and the smudgy choral texture above.”4*

Alexandra Coghlan, Limelight magazine

Read the full review: https://www.limelightmagazine.com.au/reviews/songs-of-renewal-bath-camerata-benjamin-goodson/

British Music Society

“They [Bath Camerata soloists] give quality performances, something reflected in the choral sound as a whole.” 

Alan Cooper, British Music Society

Chorzeit Vokalmagazin

“The young conductor Benjamin Goodson continues the tradition of his choir to perform contemporary British music. He does that with devotion and empathy. Every note, every sound melts on the tongue, is interpreted, invites you to notice. As a listener you are enveloped in the action, experience silence as part of music, and sometimes forget that you are listening to a chorus at all. Devotion to music: here the term really applies…

…The listeners are left to silence and to the feeling of having experienced something extraordinarily beautiful. Choir sound 4*, Interpretation 4*”

 Haino Rindler, Chorzeit Vokalmagazin (translation by Benjamin Goodson) 

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