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A sequence of modern music to ancient texts – linked by austere insertions of Sarum plainchant – that surveys the renaissance of interest in the art-carol among most of the leading British composers of the first half of this century (Howells, Walton, Warlock, Leighton are all represented). Stephen Layton's choir, Polyphony, is superb: one of the best mixed-voice professional ensembles in the...
The choir conveys Warlock’s genius quite irresistibly. These are superlative performances, beautifully recorded. A first-rate production.
Graham Johnson choisir ses chanteurs qui possèdent une musicalité irréprochable et un français non seulement intelligible mais évocateur - et de les accompanger avec tant de poésie.
To wonderful songs … [the artists] bring delicacy, grace, an emotion the more poignant for being understated … Not to be missed.
