
Benjamin Britten’s cantata Rejoice in the Lamb has been very well served on recordings, both in performances with men and boys (St. Thomas Church, New
This new Christmas Album featuring opera tenor Roberto Alagna is just what you would expect from a production designed for a big-time super-star singer, what
Here is Elgar at his most effusive, reverent, tuneful, and extravagant–all in the context of music designed for church services or solemn, religious-themed occasions. If
The sacred choral music of 20th-century British composer Kenneth Leighton (1929-88) has been fairly if not generously treated on disc, headed by excellent recordings from
Gerald Finzi’s choral music never has achieved popularity on the level of works by composers such as Stanford, Vaughan Williams, or Elgar, and in general
Listeners who don’t already own the excellent Finzi Singers recording (Chandos) of what amounts to a near-identical copy of this program from Cambridge’s Choir of
The Duruflé and Fauré Requiems are often spoken of in the same breath, probably because, besides being by French composers, both are liturgical and conciliatory