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...recent years have seen attempts to escape from the Victorian massed-choir approach: to recapture its dramatic, brilliant and occasionally racy qualities the must have hit Handelian audiences between the eyes. And that's exactly what we got at Smith Square from the Orchestra Of The Age Of Enlightenment - one of Europe's finest period-performance bands - and the small professional choir...
An appealing collection of choral works from the composer of the celebrated carol, Three Kings from Persian lands afar. Polyphony are perfect advocates of this richly woven choral writing and the solo singing is very fine too.
These are superior performances, Layton’s group Polyphony offering refined tone and exceptional precision, together with a careful observation of Cornelius’s dynamics and fluent phrasing.
This program offers an exciting trip into what for most listeners will be a world of happy discovery.
Polyphony sing with solemn beauty. The sound is sumptuous and richly atmospheric.
