While this is not the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus' first disc since new music director Norman Mackenzie took up his post -- recordings of Berlioz's Requiem and Vaughan Williams' "A Sea Symphony" preceded it -- it is their first acapella disc under his direction. It is in every way a lovely disc but it is in no way an outstanding disc. With ...
Ralph Vaughan Williams confidently asserted that there was no reason an atheist couldn't write a good mass, and he backed up his words with the Mass in G minor, dedicated to Gustav Holst and first performed in 1923. The work stands at the center of this disc, the first recording by the famed Atlanta Symphony Chorus without the backing of the ...
Had Purcell not written so much that was so great, his early death would not have been such a loss for English music. Yet had he not written so much that was so great, his posthumous fame would not bring such glory to English music. In this disc collecting the best known of his works written for Queen Mary, the full emotional range of Purcell's ...
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