
This arrived somewhat late in the season, but not too late to establish itself as one of the finest of this year’s choral Christmas releases
There are many reasons to listen to a recording of choral music: pleasure ranks high on my list. But in recent years, so often on
The Elora Singers (previously known by its original name, The Elora Festival Singers) has been making beautiful music since the 1980s, and first-rate recordings for
The disc’s subtitle announces this will be a program of
This recording features first rate performances of, on the “modern” side, Eriks Ešenvalds’ Magnificat and Nunc dimittis, Arvo Pärt’s The Woman with the Alabaster Box,
If you’re good at deciphering the somewhat abstract depiction of the Madonna and child on the disc’s cover, and if you happen to know that
There was a recurring sketch on the Sesame Street television program called “One of these things is not like the others”; you were shown four
British cellist Guy Johnston wanted to celebrate the 300th “birthday” of his David Tecchler cello in a manner suited to its distinguished provenance (Tecchler’s renowned