Benjamin Britten's "Ceremony of the Carols" could almost be the all-purpose piece for a Christmas concert. That's because Britten's masterpiece has the balance that concert directors seek in any ...

A new choir that sprouted as an idea at the beginning of the year will now conclude the year with a holiday concert. ChoralSong will contribute its own voice to the panoply of December festivities ...

Benjamin Britten’s first published work was a setting of A Hymn to the Virgin that he wrote at age 17, beginning his lifelong passion for creating direct and powerfully communicative works for the ...

The polished sound of the Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge (including some very accomplished treble soloists) under the meticulous direction of Andrew Nethsingha could be described as ‘urbane’.

The choral singing is just as enjoyable in the main work on the disc, the cantata Saint Nicolas (1947-48), whose introduction flows seamlessly from the end of the Ceremony’s Recession. Although his ...