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Kenneth Leighton
English [b]composer[/b] and [b]pianist[/b]. Born 2 October 1929, died August 24, 1988. His compositions include Anglican church music, pieces for choir and piano, concertos, symphonies, chamber music and an opera.
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That Sweet City
Kenneth Leighton, Ralph Vaughan Williams, The Choir Of The Queen's College, Oxford, Owen Rees (2), Britten Sinfonia, Nick Pritchard (2), Rowan Atkinson
2024
Signum Classics
CD
Every Living Creature. Choral Music By Kenneth Leighton
Kenneth Leighton, Andrew Griffiths (3)
2023
Somm Recordings
CD
Metamorphosis - Contemporary Music For Harpsichord Volume 1
Malcolm Lipkin, Kenneth Leighton, John McCabe (2), Ronald Stevenson, Duncan Honeybourne
2023
Prima Facie (2)
CD
British Violin Sonatas
William Walton*, William Alwyn, Kenneth Leighton, Lennox Berkeley, Alan Rawsthorne, Gordon Jacob, Clare Howick, Simon Callaghan
2020
Somm Recordings
CD, Album
Leighton - Sacred Choral Works
Choir Of St. Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh, Kenneth Leighton
2019
Delphian
15xFile, FLAC, 24
Masses For Double Choir
Kenneth Leighton, Frank Martin (3), The Choir Of King's College London*, Joseph Fort
2019
Delphian
CD, Album
English Phantasies (British Clarinet Trios)
John Ireland, John McCabe (2), Kenneth Leighton, Giles Easterbrook, Tritium Trio
2019
Prima Facie (2)
CD, Album
Annunciations: Sacred Music For The 21st Century
James MacMillan (2), St Salvator's Chapel Choir, University Of St. Andrews*, Tom Wilkinson (5), Sean Heath, Kenneth Leighton
2018
Sanctiandree
CD, Album
Enigmas - Solo Piano And Chamber Works
Elspeth Wyllie, Catherine Backhouse, Claire Overbury, Alexa Beattie, Hetti Price, Edward Elgar*, Edwin York Bowen*, Kenneth Leighton, Edmund Rubbra, Nicholas Sackman
2017
Divine Art
CD, Album
Complete Organ Works
Kenneth Leighton, Stephen Farr, John Butt, Chloë Hanslip, Nicky Spence
2017
Resonus Classics
3xCD, Comp
Echoes Of Land & Sea
Britten*, Holst*, Ireland*, Roderick Williams (3), Maria Marchant, Kenneth Leighton
2017
Somm
CD, Album
The Argo Organ Recordings: 20th Century Organ Music
Simon Preston, Hindemith*, Maxwell Davies*, Elgar*, Leighton*, Bridge*, Howells*, Tippett*, Britten*
2017
Decca
2xCD, Comp
British Violin Concertos
Paul Patterson, Kenneth Leighton, Gordon Jacob, Clare Howick, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Grant Llewellyn
2017
Naxos
CD, Album
Even Such Is Time (Finzi – Leighton – Howells – Walton)
The Choir Of Christ's College, Cambridge, David Rowland, Gerald Finzi, Kenneth Leighton, Sir William Walton, Herbert Howells
2017
Regent Records
CD, Album
A New Heaven
James MacMillan (2), Kenneth Leighton, Gabriel Jackson (2), Cecilia McDowall, Choir Of The Queen's College, Oxford*, Owen Rees (2)
2016
Signum Classics
CD
British Works For Cello And Piano
Paul Watkins (3), Huw Watkins, Lutyens* | Hoddinott* | Leighton* | Bennett*
2015
Chandos
CD
Crucifixus Pro Nobis And Other Choral Works
Leighton*, The Choir Of Trinity College Cambridge*, Stephen Layton
2015
Hyperion
CD, Album
British Composers Premiere Collections Volume 5
Kenneth Leighton, Ruth Gipps, Angela Brownridge, Malta Philharmonic Orchestra, Michael Laus
2014
Cameo Classics (3)
CD, Album
British Music For Cello And Piano
Wilhelm Busch - Kenneth Leighton, William Wordsworth (2), Arnold Cooke, Raphael Wallfisch, Raphael Terroni
2014
Naxos
CD, Comp
Kenneth Leighton Music For Violin And Piano
Kenneth Leighton, Edwin Paling, Arabella Teniswood-Harvey
2013
Move Records (2)
CD
Nativitie
London Oriana Choir, David Drummond, Kenneth Leighton
2012
London Oriana Choir
CD, Album
Invocation / Choral Music By Kenneth Leighton And James MacMillan
Birmingham Conservatoire Chamber Choir*, Kenneth Leighton, James MacMillan (2)
2011
Regent Records
CD
Cello Elegies And Romances, Volume 2
Penelope Lynex, Alexander Wells, Kenneth Leighton, Isobel Dunlop, David Popper, Darius Milhaud, Moritz Moszkowski, C. W. Orr, Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff, Claude Debussy
2011
LIR Classics
CD, Album
Organ Music - Missa de Gloria / Et Resurrexit / Hymn Fantasies
Kenneth Leighton
2011
Naxos
CD, Album
Reverberations
Benjamin Powell, Kenneth Leighton, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Martin Butler (6), Anthony Gilbert (2), Elliott Carter
2011
UH Recordings
CDr, Album
Organ Duets
Kenneth Leighton, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Jean Langlais, Thomas Tomkins, Nicholas Carleton, Andrew Johnstone (3)
2011
Guild
CD
Complete Chamber Works for Cello
Kenneth Leighton - Raphael Wallfisch, Raphael Terroni
2011
Orchestral Works, Volume 3
Leighton*, Howard Shelley, BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, Martyn Brabbins
2010
Chandos
CD
Missa Brevis
La Maîtrise de Toulouse*, Conservatoire de Toulouse*, Mark Opstad, William Whitehead (2), André Caplet, Kenneth Leighton, Léo Delibes, Benjamin Britten, Gabriel Fauré
2010
Regent Records
CD, Album
Piano Works
Leighton* - Margaret Fingerhut
2010
Chandos
CD, Album
Earth, Sweet Earth (Laudes Terrae) / Winter Words
Kenneth Leighton, Benjamin Britten, James Gilchrist, Anna Tilbrook
2010
Linn Records
SACD, Hybrid, Multichannel
The World's Desire
Leighton* / Wells Cathedral Choir, Wells Cathedral School Chapel Choir, Matthew Owens (2)
2008
Hyperion
CD, Album
Orchestral Works, Volume 1
Leighton*, John Scott (10), BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, Richard Hickox
2008
Chandos
CD
Orchestral Works, Volume 2
Leighton*, Sarah Fox (3), BBC National Chorus Of Wales, BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, Richard Hickox
2008
Chandos
CD
Complete Solo Piano Works
Kenneth Leighton, Angela Brownridge
2007
Of A Rose (Carol Settings By Britten And Leighton)
Britten*, Leighton*, The Choir Of Christ's College, Cambridge, David Rowland
2006
Regent Records
CD, Album
Et Resurrexit (Choral And Organ Works)
Kenneth Leighton - Choir of Bromley Parish Church, Thomas Corns
2006
Christopher Town Recording Service
CD
Major Organ Works Of Stanley Vann And The Kenneth Leighton Memorial Album (Gary Sieling Plays The Organs Of Chelmsford Cathedral)
Kenneth Leighton, Stanley Vann, Gary Sieling
2005
Priory
CD, Album
Sacred Choral Music - An Easter Sequence / Crucifixus Pro Nobis
Leighton*, Choir Of St John's College*, Christopher Robinson
2004
Naxos
CD
Explorations
Goldstone & Clemmow*, Kenneth Leighton, Anthony Hedges, Gustav Holst, Ronald Stevenson
2003
Divine Art
CD
Piano Quintet, Piano Trio, Piano Quartet (Robert Markham / Edinburgh Quartet)
Kenneth Leighton
2003
Meridian (2)
CD
Music of Kenneth Leighton
Kenneth Leighton, The Phillips Academy Chamber Ensemble
2003
AFKA Records
CD, Album
English Recorder Concertos
Kay* / Lane* / Milford* / Mellers* / Lawson* / McCabe* / Gardner* / Leighton* / Dodgson* - John Turner (5), Keith Elcombe, Royal Ballet Sinfonia, Gavin Sutherland (3)
2002
White Line
CD
Stephen Hough's English Piano Album
Stephen Hough, Alan Rawsthorne, Stephen Reynolds (6), Sir Edward Elgar, Granville Bantock, York Bowen, Frank Bridge, Kenneth Leighton
2002
Hyperion
CD, Album
String Quartet No.1, Op. 32; String Quartet No. 2, Op. 33; Seven Variations For Quartet, Op. 43
Kenneth Leighton, Edinburgh Quartet*
2002
Cello Concertos
Finzi* & Leighton* - Raphael Wallfisch · George Caird · Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra · Vernon Handley · Royal Scottish National Orchestra · Bryden Thomson
2001
Chandos
CD, Album, Comp
English Oboe Concertos
Jill Crowther, English Northern Philharmonia, Michael Hurd, Kenneth Leighton, William Blezard, John Gardner (5), Philip Lane
2001
ASV Digital
CD
The Klais Organ Of The Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Brisbane
Jane Watts, Marcel Dupré, Flor Peeters, Kenneth Leighton
2000
Priory
CD, Album
Animal Heaven
Beamish*, Cresswell*, Harper*, Johnson*, Leighton*, Williams*
2000
Metier
CD, Album
Piano Works
Leighton* - Margaret Fingerhut
2000
Chandos
CD, Album
Crucifixus Sacred Choral Music By Kenneth Leighton And Ralph Vaughan Williams
Kenneth Leighton, Ralph Vaughan Williams
2000
Manor Location Recording
CD, Album
A Burns Sequence - Hymn to Matter - Six Songs for Female Voices
John Gardner (5), Kenneth Leighton, Sir John Blackwood McEwen, Christopher Bell (2)
1999
NYCoS
CD
Evening Watch Choral Music By Gerald Finzi, Gustav Holst, Kenneth Leighton, William Schuman
Gerald Finzi, Gustav Holst, Kenneth Leighton, William Schuman, The Choir Of Queen's College, Cambridge
1999
Guild Music Ltd
CD
Awake My Glory (20th Century Choral Music from Jesus College, Cambridge)
Kenneth Leighton, Herbert Howells, Sir Michael Tippett, John Tavener, Benjamin Britten
1998
Lammas Records
CD, Album
Themes Of Grainger
Grainger*, Leighton* - Academy Of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Chamber Ensemble
1995
Chandos
CD, Album
The Complete Organ Works Of Kenneth Leighton
Kenneth Leighton, Dennis Townhill
1995
Priory
3xCD, Album
Fantasy On An American Hymn Tune / Alleluia Pascha Nostrum / Piano Sonata Op. 64 / Variations Op. 30
Kenneth Leighton - Janet Hilton, Raphael Wallfisch, Peter Wallfisch
1993
Chandos
CD
Sacred Choral Music
Howells* & Leighton*, The Choir Of The Queen's College, Oxford, David Went, Matthew Owens (2)
1993
ASV Digital
CD
John Weaver performs....
Kenneth Leighton, Marcel Dupré, Johann Sebastian Bach, Seth Bingham, Franz Schubert, John Weaver (3)
1993
Gothic Records (5)
CD, Album
Choral Works By Kenneth Leighton
Kenneth Leighton, Chapel Choir Of Saint Catharine's College, Cambridge, Rupert Jeffcoat
1992
Priory
CD
Cathedral Music
Kenneth Leighton, St. Paul's Cathedral Choir, Andrew Lucas, John Scott (10)
1992
Earth, Sweet Earth
Leighton*, Weir* & Henze*
1989
Abacus (5)
CD, Album
Concerto for Cello and Orchestra Op. 31 / Symphony No. 3 Op. 90
Kenneth Leighton, Raphael Wallfisch, Neil Mackie (2), Bryden Thomson, Royal Scottish National Orchestra
1989
Chandos
LP
Cello Concerto / Symphony No. 3 'Laudes Musicae'
Kenneth Leighton - Raphael Wallfisch, Neil Mackie (2), Scottish National Orchestra*, Bryden Thomson
1989
Piano Music • Volume One
Kenneth Leighton
1988
Abacus (5)
CD, Album
Piano Music Of Kenneth Leighton, Four Romantic Pieces Op. 95, Sonata for Four Hands Op. 92
Kenneth Leighton
1988
British Music Society
CD, Album, RM
My Beloved Spake - Choir Of St. Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh
Choir Of St. Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh, Henry Purcell, Edward C. Bairstow, Francis Jackson, Dennis Townhill, Kenneth Leighton
1988
Priory
CD, Album
Cello Concerto / Suite 'Veris Gratia'
Finzi* / Leighton* - Raphael Wallfisch, George Caird, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley
1986
Organ Concerto / Uprising / The Romance Of The Rose
Kenneth Leighton / Michael Berkeley - Christopher Rathbone, Southern Pro Arte*, Charles Peebles
1984
Hyperion
LP
Twentieth Century Church Music
The Choir Of Wakefield Cathedral* Directed By Jonathan Bielby, Kenneth Leighton, Petr Eben, Sidney Campbell, Percy Whitlock
1983
Priory
LP
Gillian Weir Plays The Organ Of The Queensland Conservatorium Of Music
Gillian Weir, Kenneth Leighton, Nikolaus Bruhns, Johann Sebastian Bach, Domenico Zipoli
1981
Musicon
LP
Organs Of New York: Volume I
Judith Hancock, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Marcel Dupré, Kenneth Leighton
1978
Hessound
LP
Sonata In G Major For Violin And Piano; Metamorphoses, Opus 48 For Violin And Piano And Nocturne For Violin And Piano
Guillaume Lekeu, Kenneth Leighton, José-Luis Garcia, Peter Wallfisch
1972
Gemini (4)
LP
The Music Of Kenneth Leighton
Kenneth Leighton / The Choir Of New College, Oxford*, David Lumsden
1971
Abbey
LP
Et Resurrexit / Fanfare For Organ / Sonatina / Homage To Perotin
Kenneth Leighton / John Cook (5) / Robert Cundick / Myron Roberts* / Robert Munns
1968
Virtuoso Series
LP
Symphony / Concerto For String Orchestra / Divertmento For String Orchestra
McCabe* / Leighton* / Cruft* - John Snashall Conducting The London Philharmonic Orchestra
1967
Organ Music
Bach* And Leighton*, Dennis Townhill
1965
Waverley
LP
The Lamb's Journey – A Choral Narrative From Gibbons To Barber
Ensemble Altera, Christopher Lowrey
2024
Alpha Classics
CD, Album
New College Commissions And Premieres
The New College Oxford Choir, Robert Quinney
2023
Linn Records
CD
Eastertide Evensong
The Choir Of St John's Cambridge*, Andrew Nethsingha
2022
Signum Classics
CD
Ascension
Choir Of St. Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh, Matthew Owens (2)
2019
Delphian
CD, Album, RE
The Pillar Of The Cloud
Choir Of Magdalen College, Oxford*, Mark Williams (33)
2019
Opus Arte
CD, Album
Magnificat
The Choir Of St. John's Cambridge*, Nethsingha*
2019
Signum Classics
CD, Album
Magnificat
Various
2019
Brilliant Classics
14xCD, Comp + Box
When David Heard
The Purcell Singers, Mark Ford (17), Jonathan Schranz
2019
Stone Records (16)
CD, Album
A Rose Magnificat
McCreesh*, Gabrieli Consort
2018
Winged Lion
CD, Album, Dig
The Temple Church Tradition
The Choir Of The Temple Church, London*, Greg Morris (2), Roger Sayer
2018
Priory
CD, Album
Nadolig Yn Llandaf (Advent To Christmas At Llandaff Cathedral)
The Choir Of Llandaff Cathedral*, Stephen Moore (13)
2018
Regent Records
CD, Album
Lo, How A Rose E'er Blooming: Music For Christmas
The Queen's Six
2017
Resonus Classics
CD, Album
The British Cello
Alexander Baillie, John Thwaites
2017
Somm
CD, Album
Tell Of His Love
The Choirs Of The Cathedral Of St. John, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Maxine Thévenot, Edmund Connelly
2017
Raven Records (29)
CD, Album
Chorus Gloriosus Featuring Organ Acusticum
The Erik Westberg Vocal Ensemble, Helena Holmlund, Erik Westberg (2)
2017
Studio Acusticum
CD, Album
Great British Cathedral Anthems (400 Years Of Choral Classics)
The Girls And Men Of Canterbury Cathedral Choir*, David Newsholme
2017
The Auld Alliance (Organ Music from Scotland & France)
Michael Harris (23)
2016
Aegidius
CD
Evensong Live 2016
The Choir Of King's College, Cambridge*
2016
King's College, Cambridge
CD, Album, Comp
Gaudeamus Igitur
John Kitchen (2)
2016
Delphian
CD, Album
Sing Willow: Shakespeare Songs
Les Sirènes Female Chamber Choir, Andrew Nunn, Fionnuala Ward
2016
Albion Records (5)
CD, Album
Ave Maria (Music For Upper Voices)
The St Catharine's Girls' Choir, Cambridge*, Edward Wickham
2016
Resonus Classics
CD, Album
A Voice From Heaven (British Choral Masterpieces)
The Choir Of The King's Consort, Robert King (9)
2016
Vivat Music
CD, Album
The Franz Liszt Memorial Organ in Weimar
Robert Smith (50)
2015
Jubal Music
CD, Album
3 Carols, Op. 25: No. 2, Lully, Lulla, Thou Little Tiny Child
Kenneth Leighton
Lully, lulla, thou little tiny child
Kenneth Leighton
Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis, "Collegium Magdalenae Oxoniense"
Kenneth Leighton
An Easter Sequence
Kenneth Leighton
Hymn
Kenneth Leighton
Lully, lulla
Kenneth Leighton
Nunc Dimittis
Kenneth Leighton
Violin Concerto, Op. 12: II. Intermezzo. Moderato con moto, sempre dolce
Kenneth Leighton
A Hymn of the Nativity
Kenneth Leighton
Veris gratia, Op. 6: VII. Hymn to Cypris
Kenneth Leighton
Three Carols, Op. 25: No. 2. Lully, Lulla, Thou Little Tiny Child (Coventry Carol) [Live]
Kenneth Leighton
Coventry Carol
Kenneth Leighton
Elegy for Cello & Piano, Op. 5
Kenneth Leighton
Drop, Drop, Slow Tears
Kenneth Leighton
The Coventry Carol
Kenneth Leighton
What love is this of thine?
Kenneth Leighton
Leighton: Lully, Lulla, Thou Little Tiny Child, Op. 25b, "Coventry Carol"
Kenneth Leighton
Gradual (for the First Sunday after Easter)
Kenneth Leighton
Give Me The Wings Of Faith
Kenneth Leighton
Magnificat
Kenneth Leighton
