The cover of this disc, evocative of a shopping-mall display, fails to so much as hint at the riches within: a collection of contemporary Christmas pieces that, in its range, will be of interest even to those of other faiths or none at all. As ever, it is the eclectic spirit that forms the great British strength. On this disc, populists and pop ...
In its quiet way, this British release is something of a triumph for contemporary music. The music is mostly unfamiliar, with only one short excerpt from a famous piece (the "Old Castle" passage from Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, arranged for strings), and a couple of rarely heard pieces by moderately well-known composers, Malcolm Arnold ...
Regent's collection of settings of the Ave Maria covers a lot of ground, with works ranging from the fifteenth century (Josquin Desprez) to 2006 (David Terry, the organist on this album). The music itself includes the most famous settings (the Schubert and Bach/Gounod versions), as well as a number that are obscure, with the selection weighted ...
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