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This is a strange program. It’s interesting, for sure, and very well sung by one of the world’s finest English choirs (ah, those sopranos!)–but it
Like cousins born of different parents but so similar as to make anyone believe they were siblings, Imogen Holst’s Mass in A minor (1927), only
Recordings of Vaughan Williams’ Mass in G minor don’t come along that often–but with this new one, Naxos has two first-rate performances in its catalog,
John Rutter’s own recording of his beloved Requiem–with his Cambridge Singers on Collegium–already has been reissued on a CD that includes the Magnificat. That performance,
Reviewing a new Messiah recording is a very serious matter. It requires more than a few hours of listening–preferably spread over a couple of days,
John Rutter’s Mass of the Children was recorded by the composer and his Cambridge Singers shortly after the work’s premiere in 2003. That version, for
Although John Stainer borrowed some ideas from Bach’s Passions for setting his “meditation” on the Crucifixion of Christ, unfortunately the manner of the work’s opening
British composer Robin Holloway (b. 1943), a lecturer at Cambridge University for the past 30 years, writes some of the thorniest, craggiest, noisiest (especially whenever
This is a wonderful program of sacred choral music, much of it not commonly found on recordings, and it’s sung with an unusually discerning ear
It may surprise long-term Collegium listeners to find on their familiar label, until now the exclusive domain of John Rutter’s Cambridge Singers, another choir and
