BBC Proms 1997 - The Spectator
The purest actual delight came from the first few Chamber Proms, direct
From the Victoria and Albert Museum down the road. The pearl came at lunchtime on the day
....A superb small choral group called Polyphony alternated
liturgical pieces by Arvo Part - religious and minimalist, and beautiful in
their chaste gravity - with folksong settings by Percy Grainger, deeply
affecting in deceptive simplicity, his vehicle for a piercing plangency of
emotion rendered all the more acute by flawless truth of intonation.
Robin HollowaySee concert details...