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'It’s hard to imagine them better performed than by the award-winning British choir Polyphony'
'The performances by both choir and orchestra are ideal in tone, style and accomplishment … A Christmas treat'
'[Rutter] could not have asked for better performers'
When the chirpy Shepherd’s Pipe Carol, the instantly singable Star Carol, or the literal sound effects of the charming Donkey Carol are wrapped up in such glittering, top-quality packaging as Stephen Layton’s Polyphony and The City of London Sinfonia, its seasonal allure is sealed. Finely Polished performances, served up with a warm and festive mulled-wine sensation’
Sublime music and a Requiem performance to die for
“Less is more”, a phrase coined by Bauhaus architect Mies van der Rohe, seemed an apt description for the style Stephen Layton brought to his direction of the ACO and the ACO Voices. Like van der Rohe, Layton's concerns were also with architecture, a musical one in which each detail was carefully wrought as part of a larger construction of...