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Fans of American sacred choral music, particularly early-American hymns and 20th-century church anthems, will find much to enjoy on this diverse and very well sung
Poulenc’s a cappella motets are such great pieces it’s unfortunate that we don’t hear them sung (or recorded) more often. It’s not that more choirs
Herbert von Karajan’s 1975 Mozart Requiem is of the grand ceremonial type with large choral forces and full orchestra accompaniment–all of which sounds quite massive
This is a very strange release. Apparently at some point in his career, Carl Orff (of Carmina Burana fame) thought about making an “Orffed-up” version
Osvaldo Golijov’s St. Mark Passion runs on a river of ironies and upended expectations. After all, who would expect an Argentine Jew to write a
When we think of the great 18th-century Passions, of course the St. Matthew and St. John of Bach are pre-eminent. But many listeners may be
Penderecki’s gripping St. Luke Passion (1966) takes the Passions of Bach as its models, refashioning them in an unrelentingly modernist 20th-century language. The boldly original
Dresden church composer Gottfried August Homilius was a pupil of J.S. Bach and for a time even sang in his choir in Leipzig, so it’s
There are a lot of composers writing choral music these days, several of them very good, the best of whom convey through every bar of
Although at first glance William Byrd’s music seems to have fared pretty well on disc, it’s only a relative few works that get most of
