Editing Ex Cathedra (section)

==Recordings==
Ex Cathedra has made a number of critically acclaimed recordings for [[ASV Records]], NMC, Orchid, [[Signum Records]], Somm Records, [[Hyperion Records]], and on its own label.<ref>See, for instance, {{citation|author=Andrew McGregor|title=Ex Cathedra; New World Symphonies|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/release/rqrg/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20071021085323/http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/release/rqrg/|url-status=dead|archive-date=21 October 2007|publisher=[[BBC]]|date=19 May 2003|accessdate=18 December 2008|quote="Ex Cathedra and Jeffrey Skidmore are first-rate ambassadors for this music. ... [T]he overall sound is beautiful and the performance, from instrumentalists and singers, has great conviction and energy. ... An album of unexpectedly wicked delight."}}; {{citation|author=Christopher Morley|title=Classical CD review: Celestial sounds sourced from sunny Latin America; Moon, sun and all things – Ex Cathedra|newspaper=Birmingham Post|date=20 October 2005|accessdate=<!-- 18 December 2008 -->}}; and {{citation|author=John Quinn|title=Fire Burning in the Snow/Skidmore, Ex Cathedra|url=http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?album_id=186652|publisher=[[Steinway & Sons#Recent history|ArkivMusic.com]]|year=2008|accessdate=18 December 2008|quote="The standard of performance is unfailingly excellent. Ensemble work, both vocal and instrumental, is tight and the many vocal solos are all taken extremely well. The performances display flair and finesse on the part of all concerned. Jeffrey Skidmore's direction is perceptive, lively and, above all, persuasive."|archive-date=8 June 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110608184941/http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?album_id=186652|url-status=dead}}.</ref><ref name="Guardian 20080201">{{citation|author=Andrew Clements|title=Fire Burning in Snow, Ex Cathedra/Skidmore (Hyperion)|url=http://music.guardian.co.uk/classical/reviews/story/0,,2250233,00.html|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|date=1 February 2008}}.</ref> It is well known for its recordings of French and Latin American [[Baroque music]].<ref name="Ex Cathedra website"/> 

In 2015 the CD 'Britten to America' was shortlisted for a Grammy Award, whilst 'A French Baroque Diva' won a Gramophone Award 2015 (Recital category): "It is no longer enough for recitals merely to bunch together a dozen or so favourite lollipops. The most stimulating essays in the genre are revealing a clear fashion for a proper conceptual theme that requires some scholarly research and creative programming, placing musical entertainment and philological exploration on an equal par. The shortlisted finalists for this year's Recital Award typify this trend, and best of the distinguished crop is Jeffrey Skidmore and Carolyn Sampson's exposition of the career of Marie Fel (1713–94)... Skidmore's expert direction, Ex Cathedra's stylish orchestra (and expert choir) and Sampson's sincere singing ensure that this is both musically thrilling and a fascinating contextual journey."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_CDA68035|title=A French Baroque Diva|website=Hyperion Records|accessdate=20 September 2018}}</ref>

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!width=45%|Title and CD number<ref name="discog">{{citation|title=Recordings|url=http://www.ex-cathedra.org/recordings.php|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060829073147/http://www.ex-cathedra.org/recordings.php|url-status=usurped|archive-date=29 August 2006|publisher=Ex Cathedra|accessdate=19 May 2017}}</ref>
!width=20%|Release date<ref>[https://www.amazon.co.uk Amazon.co.uk] (album release dates)</ref>
!Performers<ref name="discog" />
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|'''''[[Antonio Vivaldi|Vivaldi]]: Vespers'''''<br><small>ECCE EXCCD001</small>
|align=center|1991
|Ex Cathedra Chamber Choir and Baroque Orchestra<br>Jeffrey Skidmore
|- valign=top
|'''''[[Michel Richard Delalande|Michel-Richard de Lalande]]: Regina Coeli; De Profundis; Cantate Domino'''''<br><small>ASV Gaudeamus CD GAU 141</small>
|align=center|16 January 1995
|Ex Cathedra Chamber Choir and Baroque Orchestra (leader [[Micaela Comberti]])<br>Jeffrey Skidmore
|- valign=top
|'''''Sanctus: Baroque Music for the Nativity'''''<br><small>ASV Gaudeamus CD GAU 166</small>
|align=center|
|Ex Cathedra Chamber Choir and Baroque Orchestra<br>Jeffrey Skidmore
|- valign=top
|'''''[[Claudio Monteverdi|Monteverdi]]: Madrigali Fatta Spirituale'''''<br><small>ASV Gaudeamus CD GAU 174</small>
|align=center|[''Unknown'']
|Ex Cathedra<br>Jeffrey Skidmore
|- valign=top
|'''''[[Sir Christèmas]]: Carols Old and New'''''<br><small>ASV Gaudeamus CD DCA 912</small>
|align=center|21 February 1995
|Ex Cathedra<br>Jeffrey Skidmore
|- valign=top
|'''''[[Orlande de Lassus]]: Sacred Choral Music; Missa ad Imitationem Vinum Bonum'''''<br><small>ASV Gaudeamus CD GAU 150</small>
|align=center|13 March 1996
|Ex Cathedra<br>His Majesty's Sagbutts and Cornetts<br>Jeffrey Skidmore
|- valign=top
|'''''A New Heaven: 1,000 Years of Sacred Choral Music'''''<br><small>ECCE EXCCD002</small>
|align=center|2000
|Ex Cathedra<br>Jeffrey Skidmore
|- valign=top
|'''''Christmas Music by Candlelight: Alleluya, a New Work'''''<br><small>ECCE EXCCD003</small>
|align=center|2001
|Ex Cathedra<br>Jeffrey Skidmore
|- valign=top
|'''''New World Symphonies: Baroque Music from Latin America'''''<br><small>[[Hyperion Records|Hyperion]] CDA67380</small>
|align=center|7 April 2003
|Ex Cathedra<br>Jeffrey Skidmore
|- valign=top
|'''''[[Marc-Antoine Charpentier|Charpentier]]: Messe à Quatre Chœurs; Salve Regina à Trois Chœurs; Salut de la Veille des 'O'; Le Reniement de St Pierre'''''<br><small>Hyperion CDA67435</small>
|align=center|5 January 2004
|Ex Cathedra<br>Jeffrey Skidmore
|- valign=top
|'''''[[Jean-Philippe Rameau|Rameau]]: Règne Amour: Love Songs from the Operas'''''<br><small>Hyperion CDA67447</small>
|align=center|3 May 2004
|Carolyn Sampson<br>Ex Cathedra Choir & Baroque Orchestra<br>Jeffrey Skidmore
|- valign=top
|'''''[[Martin Peerson|Peerson]]: Latin Motets'''''<br><small>Hyperion CDA67490</small>
|align=center|3 January 2005
|Ex Cathedra Consort<br>Jeffrey Skidmore
|- valign=top
|'''''Moon, Sun & All Things: Baroque Music from Latin America – 2'''''<br><small>Hyperion CDA67524</small>
|align=center|29 August 2005
|Ex Cathedra<br>Jeffrey Skidmore
|- valign=top
|'''''Fire Burning in Snow: Latin American Baroque 3'''''<ref name="Guardian 20080201"/><br><small>Hyperion CDA67600</small>
|align=center|28 January 2008
|Ex Cathedra Consort<br>Jeffrey Skidmore
|- valign=top
|'''''[[Bach|J.S Bach]]: St Matthew Passion'''''<br><small>Orchid ORC100007</small>
|align=center|1 November 2009
|Ex Cathedra<br>Jeffrey Skidmore<br>Grace Davidson – Soprano I<br>Mark Chambers – Alto I<br>Jeremy Budd – Tenor I & Evangelist<br>Eamonn Dougan – Bass I & Jesus<br>Greg Skidmore – Bass I & Pilate<br>Natalie Clifton-Griffith – Soprano II<br>Matthew Venner – Alto II<br>Christopher Watson – Tenor II<br>James Birchall – Bass II
|- valign=top
|'''''Joy in the morning'''''<br><small>Orchid ORC100008</small>
|align=center|1 November 2009
|Ex Cathedra<br>Jeffrey Skidmore<br>Andrew Fletcher – organ
|- valign=top
|'''''[[Orlande de Lassus]]: St Matthew Passion'''''<br><small>SOMMCD0106</small>
|align=center|1 April 2011
|Ex Cathedra Consort<br>Jeffrey Skidmore<br>Nicholas Mulroy – Evangelist<br>Greg Skidmore – Jesus
|- valign=top
|'''''[[Alec Roth]]: Shared Ground'''''<br><small>Signum SIGCD270</small>
|align=center|1 November 2011
|Ex Cathedra<br>Ex Cathedra Academy of Vocal Music<br>Jeffrey Skidmore<br>Philippe Honoré – violin
|- valign=top
|'''''[[Giovanni Gabrieli]]: Sacred Symphonies'''''<br><small>Hyperion CDA67957</small>
|align=center|1 November 2012
|Ex Cathedra Consort<br>His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts<br>Concerto Palatino<br>Jeffrey Skidmore
|- valign=top
|'''''[[Benjamin Britten]]: Britten to America'''''<br><small>NMC D190</small>
|align=center|9 November 2013
|Ex Cathedra Consort<br>Jeffrey Skidmore<br>The Hallé<br>Mark Elder<br>Andrew Kennedy<br>Huw Watkins<br>Samuel West
|- valign=top
|'''''A French Baroque Diva'''''<br><small>Hyperion CDA68035</small>
|align=center|1 June 2014
|Carolyn Sampson<br>Ex Cathedra Consort & Baroque Orchestra<br>Jeffrey Skidmore
|- valign=top
|'''''Brazilian Adventures'''''<br><small>Hyperion CDA68114</small>
|align=center|1 November 2015
|Ex Cathedra Consort & Baroque Orchestra<br>Jeffrey Skidmore
|- valign=top
|'''''[[Alec Roth]]: A Time to Dance'''''<br><small>Hyperion CDA68144</small>
|align=center|1 February 2016
|Ex Cathedra Choir & Baroque Orchestra<br>Jeffrey Skidmore<br>Grace Davidson – soprano<br>Matthew Venner – alto<br>Samuel Boden – tenor<br>Greg Skidmore – bass<br>Tim Harper – organ
|- valign=top
|'''''[[Roxanna Panufnik]]: Celestial Bird'''''<br><small>Signum SIGCD543</small>
|align=center|1 September 2018
|Ex Cathedra<br>Milapfest<br>Jeffrey Skidmore
|- valign=top
|'''''[[Penelope Thwaites]]: From Five Continents'''''<br><small>SOMMCD0612</small>
|align=center|1 April 2020
|Ex Cathedra<br>Jeffrey Skidmore<br>Carolyn Sampson - soprano<br>James Gilchrist - tenor<br>William Dazeley - baritone<br>Penelope Thwaites - piano<br>Rupert Jeffcoat - organ
|}

===Hyperion lawsuit===
In 2001, Ex Cathedra recorded four works by Michel-Richard de Lalande for Hyperion Records. The sessions used editions prepared by scholar Lionel Sawkins. Sawkins went on to sue Hyperion for royalties arising from his claimed [[copyright]] in the editions.<ref name="Sawkins v Hyperion HC">{{cite BAILII|litigants=Sawkins v. Hyperion Records Limited|court=EWHC|division=Ch|year=2004|num=1530|courtname=auto}}.</ref> The recording was issued but subsequently withdrawn from the market after Sawkins won the lawsuit and subsequent appeal.<ref>{{citation|author=Terry Grimley|title=Facing the music: ... [H]ow a prestigious project turned sour for Birmingham baroque ensemble Ex Cathedra|newspaper=Birmingham Post|date=10 July 2004}}.</ref><ref name=Guardian>{{citation|author=Ed Vulliamy|title=£1m legal bill rocks a musical institution: Classical record firm at risk after court defeat; Bill for copyright action a 'self-inflicted wound'|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/dec/23/arts.artsnews|newspaper=The Guardian|date=23 December 2005}}.</ref> 

Upon Hyperion's appeal, the [[Court of Appeal of England and Wales|Court of Appeal]] held on 19 May 2005 that Sawkins owned the copyright in his modern performing editions of the de Lalande music, even though de Lalande's music itself was out of copyright.<ref>{{cite BAILII|litigants=Hyperion Records Limited v. Sawkins|court=EWCA|division=Civ|year=2005|num=565|parallelcite=[2005] 1 W.L.R. 3281|courtname=auto}}.</ref> The decision was not welcomed by all. Peter Phillips, the director of the [[Tallis Scholars]] and a music editor himself, said: "All the music I perform has to be edited, or we couldn't read it. But copyright should be there ... to reward creativity, not scholarship or diligence. How much an editor did or did not write should never be asked and judged upon during a million-pound lawsuit involving a small and innovative recording company."<ref name=Guardian/>