Songs Of Hope (2020)

Amy Moore sings soprano with The Choir of St James’ King St on their 2020 recording Songs of Hope which brings together compositions that are both old and new, European and Australian, with works by William Byrd, Philip Moore, Joseph Twist, Owen Elsley, and Brooke Shelley.

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Burden of Truth (2020)

Amy Moore, Principal Artist with The Song Company, sings soprano on this album, comprising of the world premiere recording of Gavin Bryars’ iconic minimalist epic Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet and Antony Pitts’ 25-voice reworking of the extraordinary and visionary 13-part canon in the Eton Choirbook Jesus autem transiens.

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An English Mass (2019)

Amy Moore sings soprano on this live recording of Herbert Howells’ An English Mass, performed liturgically during the Orchestral Mass of 20 January 2019 at St James’ King Street.

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Michael Finnissy vocal works 1974-2015 (2018)

Amy Moore sings soprano with Exaudi on their 2018 release Michael Finnissy vocal works 1974-2015. The four works on this album spanning forty years, show Finnissian vocality at its most blazingly intense: displays of virtuosity that push mind and body to the limits of their flexibility, reach, stamina and control.

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Mala Punica (2017)

Mala Punica (pomegranate) is an extraordinary album, particularly because the leader and composer James Weeks has written the settings of the poems Song of Songs especially for the eight voices of Exaudi which he founded together with the soprano Juliet Fraser. The erotic poems from the Tanach (Old Testament) fascinate through the impressive aesthetic power of EXAUDI. This song circle is framed by the instrumental composition Walled Garden. Mala Punica and Walled Garden are totally merged into one another and form an artistic unity.

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Park: Footsteps; Talbot: Path of Miracles (2017)

Amy Moore sings soprano with Tenebrae on this, the first recording of Owain Park's Footsteps, presented by way of a welcome bonus to a re-issue of Joby Talbot's Path of Miracles as Tenebrae and Nigel Short celebrate fifteen years of exemplary performances.

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Rihm & Nono: Passion Texts (2014)

Luigi Nono’s late style, a world of sharply-etched, strikingly sparse sound forms set against a background of silence, made a deep impression on the younger Wolfgang Rihm, whose works from the mid-80s onwards show clearly the imprint of the Italian master’s visionary clarity. + This recording of works for differing ensembles of solo voices shows another commonly held trait: passionate engagement with their fellow human beings, giving rise to a music of searing and shocking directness. + This new disc features music that has been a part of the EXAUDI ensemble’s lifeblood since its foundation.

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Exposure (2013)

There is no more revealing a medium in music than the human voice. Coming from deep inside the body, carried on the breath, acquiring resonance in the head, shaped and channelled through the same mouth and lips through which we speak and with which we kiss – this sound, not filtered through wood, metal or gut, cannot be separated from the human being that made it. By the time it leaves the body, it is intrinsically, inextricably personal.

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Libera nos - The Cry of the Oppressed (2013)

Coupling powerful interpretations with path-breaking scholarship, the choir Contrapunctus, with Amy Moore singing soprano, presents music by the best-known composers as well as unfamiliar masterpieces.

Directed by Owen Rees, a specialist in music of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the group presents imaginative programmes revealing previously undiscovered musical treasures and throwing new light on familiar works.

This recording explores the musical ‘cries of the oppressed’ from opposite ends of Europe, which include some of the most powerful works composed in England and Portugal during this period by Byrd, Tallis, Monte and Cardoso. The highlight perhaps is the first recording of a newly reconstructed vocal work by Thomas Tallis, Libera nos.

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Dir - in dir (2013)

Amy Moore sings soprano with Exaudi on this recording with French chamber ensemble L'Instant Donné. This work, composed in 2003-2004 for a vocal sextet and a string sextet, was originally presented as a series of sung pieces and instrumental commentaries, the same material being used in both cases, but of a very differentiated way. The two sextets could be given separately, under the titles Dir and In dir. In 2010-11, composer Stefano Gervasoni intertwined the two parts into a whole in which a relative autonomy remains: the string sextet, thus, plays independently of the conductor who leads the voices.

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The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom (2013)

Amy Moore sings soprano with Tenebrae, led by Nigel Short on this return to the repertoire of Russian composer Alexander Levine. The Divine Liturgy of St John Chrysostom is Levine’s most significant large-scale religious work to date. Inspired by the humility and humanity of the murdered Russian priest (and friend of Levine) Fr. Alexander Men and composed over a three-month period of spiritual immersion, research and contemplation (similar to that described by his great forebears Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov), the work traces a continuous spiritual growth towards the central point of the Liturgy – the Holy Communion.

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Berlioz Grande Messe des Morts (2012)

Amy Moore sings soprano with Tenebrae, led by Nigel Short on this return to the repertoire of Russian composer Alexander Levine. The Divine Liturgy of St John Chrysostom is Levine’s most significant large-scale religious work to date. Inspired by the humility and humanity of the murdered Russian priest (and friend of Levine) Fr. Alexander Men and composed over a three-month period of spiritual immersion, research and contemplation (similar to that described by his great forebears Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov), the work traces a continuous spiritual growth towards the central point of the Liturgy – the Holy Communion.

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Fauré: Requiem; Bach: Partita, Chorales & Ciaccona (2012)

During the 2011 City of London Festival, Amy Moore, soprano as part of Tenebrae joined a chamber ensemble from the LSO at St Paul’s Cathedral for a performance of Fauré’s Requiem. The Requiem was preceded by a selection of Bach’s Chorales interspersed with his Partitia in D minor, performed by Gordan Nikolitch, leader of the London Symphony Orchestra.

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Victoria: Requiem (2011)

Amy Moore sings soprano with Tenebrae, led by Nigel Short on this recording of Tomás Luis de Victoria's requiem mass for six voices, written in 1603 and published in 1605. This masterpiece is one of a handful of large-scale works which enjoys mainstream appeal in the 21st century. For many, it represents what Renaissance polyphony is, what it sounds and feels like, and how expressive it can be. The album also features two well-known works by Victoria's contemporary Alonso Lobo.

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Passion & Resurrection & other choral works (2011)

The live performance last year of Passion and Resurrection by the young Latvian composer Ešenvalds thrilled critics and audiences alike. As a new liturgical work that looks set to enter the repertoire it is comparable to Arvo Pärt’s Passio.

Stephen Layton’s commitment to new Baltic music is well-known and he has a deep understanding of the musical language of the area – reflected by performances of great integrity and passion. This recording is particularly splendid, featuring not only the matchless Polyphony, with Amy Moore singing soprano, and Britten Sinfonia but also Carolyn Sampson, acclaimed for her performances of early music on Hyperion but heard here to dazzling effect, crowning the performance with her extraordinary singing.

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Victoria: Lamentations of Jeremiah (2010)

Amy Moore sings soprano with The Tallis Scholars, led by Peter Phillips on this recording of Victoria's nine Lamentations. This work contains some of Victoria’s most intense, mystical and moving music and rank alongside the Requiem as one of his greatest achievements.

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Dialogues of Sorrow (2010)

'Dialogues of Sorrow' is the second disc from early music consort group Gallicantus, with Amy Moore singing soprano, here joined by lutenist Elizabeth Kenny to perform familiar masterpieces and undiscovered treasures of the late English Renaissance, composed at the time of the young prince's death. The release follows the group's critically acclaimed debut recording, 'Hymns, Psalms and Lamentations'—music by Robert White.

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Dialogues of Sorrow (2010)

'Dialogues of Sorrow' is the second disc from early music consort group Gallicantus, with Amy Moore singing soprano, here joined by lutenist Elizabeth Kenny to perform familiar masterpieces and undiscovered treasures of the late English Renaissance, composed at the time of the young prince's death. The release follows the group's critically acclaimed debut recording, 'Hymns, Psalms and Lamentations'—music by Robert White.

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A Spotless Rose (2009)

Paul McCreesh explores the vast legacy of choral music in honour of the Virgin Mary. Recorded in the breath-taking acoustics of Ely Cathedral and its Lady Chapel, Renaissance works by Josquin, Palestrina and Mouton are contrasted with their modern counterparts by Howells, Bax, Gorecki, Giles Swayne and Thomas Adès.

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The Sacred Flame (2009)

A treasure-trove of outstanding motets, including works by Bach, Buxtehude, Gabrieli, Gesualdo, Monteverdi, Palestrina, Schütz and Sweelinck. All performed by the Cambridge Singers at their sensuous and virtuosic best, with Amy Moore, soprano, joined here by the acclaimed early music ensemble La Nuova Musica.

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Via Crucis (2009)

Stephen Layton’s first disc of Lukaszewski’s choral works (with The Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge) was widely praised by listeners entranced by the composer’s unique yet accessible musical language. For this new release Layton and Polyphony, with Amy Moore, soprano, together with the Britten Sinfonia and a team of world-class soloists, have taken on a major work which is destined to become a modern classic in the vein of Tavener’s The Veil of the Temple or Pärt’s St John Passion. Via Crucis is a dramatization of the Stations of the Cross, a musical reading of this most solemn journey that evolves through its 55-minutes in an arc of culminatory ritual power.

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A Song Of Farewell: Music of Mourning and Consolation (2009)

Dedicated to the dead of the Dunblane tragedy of March 1996, A Child’s Prayer was first performed in Westminster Abbey the following July. The setting is the more poignant for the scoring of two solo treble parts throughout, featuring Amy Moore, soprano, which are accompanied by slow-moving chords sung by the remainder of the choir. Despite the tragic circumstances of the time, much is made of the word ‘joy’ which builds to such an intense climax that there is inevitably a lingering feeling of optimism and peace.

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Haydn The Creation (2008)

Paul McCreesh and his Gabrieli Consort turn their attention to Haydn’s greatest work: The Creation. McCreesh has revised large parts of the text of the English-language version, also rewriting the recitatives “as Haydn might have done had he been more familiar with the English language”. Not only is this the world premiere recording of this newly revised version, it is also the first release of Die Schoepfung in its equally authentic English version in the Deutsche Grammophon catalogue.

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Fauré: Requiem (2007)

An album featuring Fauré's Requiem and Mozart's Ave, verum Corpus and Vespers.
The result of a collaboration between two of the finest modern day exponents of classical music, The Sixteen, with Amy Moore singing soprano, and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, this exquisite disc brings fresh life to Fauré’s peerless Requiem and injects imaginative invention and poetic phrasing into two of Mozart’s choral masterpieces.
Recorded at the 2007 Mostly Mozart Festival at London’s Barbican Hall, this disc reflects the unique live experience of a concert performance that captivated its audience.

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