About Stephen Layton
Stephen David Layton MBE (born 23 December 1966) is an English conductor. Layton was raised in Derby, where his father was a church organist. He was a chorister at Winchester Cathedral, and subsequently won scholarships to Eton College and then King's College, Cambridge as an organ scholar under Stephen Cleobury. Whilst studying at Cambridge, Layton founded the mixed-voice choir Polyphony in 1986. He was appointed the musical director of the Holst Singers in 1993, replacing Hilary Davan Wetton, who had founded the group in 1978.
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Song for Athene
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Pärt: Magnificat (1989)
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Tavener: The Lamb
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Tavener: Song for Athene
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Tavener: The Veil of the Temple - What God is we do not know
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The Lamb
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7 Chansons, FP 81: No. 1. La blanche neige (The White Snow)
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Tavener: A Hymn to the Mother of God
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Pärt: 7 Magnificat Antiphons: I. O Weisheit
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Elgar: Great is the Lord, Op. 67
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Tavener: The Protecting Veil - The Dormition of the Mother of God
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Tavener: The Protecting Veil - The Protecting Veil
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Pärt: 7 Magnificat Antiphons: VI. O König aller Völker
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Tavener: A Christmas Round
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7 Chansons, FP 81: No. 2. A peine defiguree (Hardly disfigured)
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Pärt: 7 Magnificat Antiphons: V. O Morgenstern
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7 Chansons, FP 81: No. 3. Par une nuit nouvelle (A new night)
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Pärt: 7 Magnificat Antiphons: IV. O Schlüssel Davids
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Pärt: 7 Magnificat Antiphons: III. O Spross aus Isais Wurzel
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7 Chansons, FP 81: No. 7. Luire (Gleaming)
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7 Chansons, FP 81: No. 6. Marie (Marie)
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Howells: Take Him, Earth, for Cherishing
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Pärt: 7 Magnificat Antiphons: VII. O Immanuel
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Howells: A Hymn for St Cecilia
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7 Chansons, FP 81: No. 4. Tous les droits (Every right)
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7 Chansons, FP 81: No. 5. Belle et ressemblante (Beautiful and lifelike)
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O Jesu mi Dulcissime II (Gumpelzhaimer MS) - Ed. Stephen Cleobury
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S.S. Wesley: The Wilderness
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Howells: 4 Anthems to the Blessed Virgin Mary, Op. 9: No. 4, Salve regina
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Laudes de Saint Antoine de Padoue, FP 172: II. O proles
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Sleep
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Laudes de Saint Antoine de Padoue, FP 172: I. O Jesu
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Laudes de Saint Antoine de Padoue, FP 172: III. Laus Regi
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Chansons francaises, FP 130: No. 1. Margoton va t'a l'iau
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Funeral Ikos
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Howells: The House of the Mind
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Ešenvalds: O salutaris hostia
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Un soir de neige, FP 126: No. 3. Bois meurtri
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Nunc dimittis
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Laudes de Saint Antoine de Padoue, FP 172: IV. Si quaeris
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4 Petites prieres de Saint Francois d'Assise, FP 142: No. 2. Tout puissant, tres saint (Majestueux et eclatant)
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4 Petites prieres de Saint Francois d'Assise, FP 142: No. 1. Salut, Dame Sainte (Modere, mais sans lenteur)
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4 Petites prieres de Saint Francois d'Assise, FP 142: No. 3. Seigneur, je vous en prie (Tres expressif et fervent)
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Tavener: The Tyger
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Lux Aurumque
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John Tavener: Song For Athene
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Un soir de neige, FP 126: No. 2. La bonne neige
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Finzi: Magnificat, Op. 36
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Chansons francaises, FP 130: No. 3. Pilons l'orge
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Ave verum corpus, FP 154: Ave verum corpus
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