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Good music from Good Friday
[…] The choir of St John’s, Elora is directed by Noel Edison . All of which leads to our final new release (Naxos 8.573092 ) of sacred music composed by Mozart while in the service of Archbishop Colleredo at his court in Salzburg when still only 17 years old. The two short mass settings and Regina Coeli “lift the spirits and are a joy to perform,” in the words of Andrew Lucas, who directs the St Albans Cathedral Choir . “It was therefore an easy decision to choose to record these examples of our core repertoire,” says Lucas, “and to have the luxury of performing with musicians using instruments from the classical period, who give a truer picture of balance, blend and colour of the instruments and voices in this truly exuberant music. “I love these settings which, to me, already reveal Mozart’s greatness and are a foretaste of even […]
2012-09-30 01:05:35
St Albans Abbey Girls Choir, Lay Clerks of St Albans Cathedral Choir, Peter Holder (organ), Tom Winpenny (Naxos)Most of our great cathedral choirs record regularly, offering a useful snapshot of the quality of the voices at any given time – always variable when young singers are arriving and leaving quite rapidly. The girls of St Albans Abbey are aged eight to 14, drawn – as are the boy choristers – from local schools, not a dedicated choir school. These fresh young voices, joined by the impressive lay clerks, make the purest sound in this Mendelssohn collection, though intonation is not always secure. Favourites Hear my Prayer and How Lovely are the Messengers join less well-known motets and a set of canticles. You can find better recordings of most of these pieces, but that's not the point: this is a working choir, playing a distinguished part in the daily round of a […]
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