MacMillan - Choral Works
Accomplished a cappella singing from this high-class Stuttgart ensemble
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Genre:
Vocal
Label: Hänssler
Magazine Review Date: 10/2009
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 0
Mastering:
Stereo
Catalogue Number: CD93250

Author: Andrew Achenbach
If the performance of Vaughan Williams’s sublime Mass doesn’t muster the same degree of devotional ardour that made Mike Brewer’s recent recording with Laudibus such a treat (Delphian, 11/08), it’s still an impressively mellifluous display, albeit without disturbing my own longstanding allegiance to much-loved predecessors like Matthew Best’s 1983 Corydon Singers account (Helios, 10/87R) and Sir David Willcocks’s 1968 King’s College version (EMI). The beautiful part song Silence and Music (VW’s contribution to the 1953 Coronation collection A Garland for the Queen) comes off very well in Stuttgart. Stunningly natural SACD sound from the SWR production crew. Short measure, then, but superior quality!
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