There’s a lot of prettiness in this release of the first successful large-scale work by Swiss composer Othmar Schoeck (1886-1957)–perhaps too much prettiness. The disc
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He’d received many honors before, but it wasn’t until last week that John Rutter, best known for his choral compositions and arrangements, especially works related