Choral music
The latest news and reviews on choral music
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BBC Total Immersion Day: Philip Glass at 80 review – variety, sheer difficulty and lots of arpeggios
Marin Alsop, the BBC Singers and others wished Glass a happy 80th with a career-spanning programme of his best and most challenging work -
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Baritone Mark Spyropoulos – the first British full-time member of the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel choir – tells us how tradition, technology and a little guesswork intermingle beneath Michelangelo’s frescoes
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First performed in 1742, the oratorio was afterwards adapted for huge choirs, and continues to be a firm favourite
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The best new classical festive albums, from Kansas City to Wells Cathedral
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La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Le Concert des Nations/Savall
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Christ Church Cathedral Choir, soloists from the Sixteen, Clive Driskill-Smith (organ), Oxford Baroque/Darlington (Coro)
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This concert performance - the world premiere of John Joubert’s 1997 opera - revealed issues of dramatic coherence, but under Kenneth Woods a fine lineup of musicians made it sing
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The conductor and founder of the Tallis Scholars on the Beatles, Bruckner and Bryd, and why we should treat Bach with less respect
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Esa-Pekka Salonen’s readings of Oedipus Rex and the Symphony of Psalms were thrilling while Peter Sellars’s staging of the opera-oratorio was deft
Veljo Tormis obituary