
Most of John Rutter’s fans are familiar with the story about the creation of the Christmas anthem What Sweeter Music, a piece that has become
[In this season of seemingly non-stop Messiah performances, and in the face of a catalog teeming with a bewildering number of recordings of the work,
All’s well, everything precisely where it should be with this
Handel was fundamentally a theatrical composer, in the sense that
A picture of an American flag and a (near-microscopic) list of four prominent 20th-century American composers on the cover leaves little doubt about the concept
It’s true–and I’ve commented on this before–that it’s a relatively rare thing to hear a European choir giving more than occasional attention to works by
This is a major release that choral music fans will not want to miss. Here is a program of modern works (most written within the
You hear about huge advance orders for the latest CD by the biggest, hottest pop superstar, or for the most fashionably hip tell-all book–but when
Don’t be surprised if you have to stop and repeat the first two tracks of this musically compelling, beautifully sung program of works–most of them
It’s hard to imagine a composer “retiring” (as good an idea as it might be for some we can think of), but that’s just what