A collection of medieval, late Romantic, and modern anthems for choir and organ, Immortal Fire: Music for Female Saints is most likely to appeal to those with serious devotional or practical interests in church music; this is not just background music for "chilling-out," à la Chant or similar albums. Though the reverent tone of most of the works ...
British composer Judith Bingham began her career as a singer and four of the five pieces recorded here are choral, performed by the BBC Symphony Chorus, a group with which she once performed. Bingham's musical language is basically tonal with chromatically enriched harmonies. She writes idiomatically for the voice, but for the most part these ...
This collection of music for Advent and Christmas features a wide variety of carols, hymns, and anthems, some well known and some less familiar, interspersed with plainsong antiphons. The men and boys choir of St. John's College, Cambridge, conducted by David Hill, sings with pure and smoothly blended tone. Among the more traditional hymns, "O ...
The cover of this disc, evocative of a shopping-mall display, fails to so much as hint at the riches within: a collection of contemporary Christmas pieces that, in its range, will be of interest even to those of other faiths or none at all. As ever, it is the eclectic spirit that forms the great British strength. On this disc, populists and pop ...
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