Choral music
The latest news and reviews on choral music
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The Dream of Gerontius review – ENO takes Elgar's soul on a dramatic journeySimone Young set a dynamic framework for this staged interpretation, while Gwyn Hughes Jones sang the dying man with emotional conviction, backed by incisive soloists and chorus
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First Drop CD review – from Skempton to Reich via 12 immaculate voicesArs Nova Copenhagen/Hillier (Cantaloupe)
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Like as the Hart: Music for the Templar’s Garden CD review – one psalm, six centuriesChoir of New College, Oxford/Quinney
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The top classical, world, folk and jazz of summer 2017Comedy choirs, desert rock, a trip to the moon and a musical tour of Hull are the standout sounds of the season. Plus Django Bates jazzes up Sgt Pepper
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Gurrelieder review – Elder matches beauty with intensity in Schoenberg's immense dramaThis outstanding collaboration between Manchester’s Hallé and the BBC Philharmonic was made all the more affecting by the recent UK terror attacks
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Sound Unbound; András Schiff review – breaking down the sound barriersAn accessible festival won young and new fans, while the master pianist defied – and revived – Schumann
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William Petter: Ablaze With Light CD review – an outstanding tributeThe Rose Singers/Foggitt, Paul Plummer (organ) (Novum)
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St John Passion review – Britten Sinfonia deliver no sermons, but plenty of feelingMark Padmore resurrected the role of Evangelist in an experimental staging of Bach’s choral masterpiece that included compelling readings by Simon Russell Beale
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LPO/Stutzmann review – confrontations with mortality honour London's terror victimsNathalie Stutzmann, conducting with great insight, dedicated the evening to victims of the Westminster attack. It is hard to imagine a finer tribute
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Tallis Scholars review – sacred meets secular as early music voices raise the roofPeter Phillips drew full-blooded but ethereal sound from Scholars with a memorable programme than ran from De Lassus to JS Bach
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Music blog Proms 2017: Our writers pick their highlights of the coming season