Performer: St. John’s College Choir
Conductor: Andrew Nethsingha
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Signum
Release: 2020
Size: 510 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
01. Byrd: The Preces
02. Allegri: Miserere mei, Deus
03. trad.: The First Lesson
04. Weelkes: Short Service – Magnificat
05. trad.: The Second Lesson
06. Weelkes: Short Service – Nunc Dimittis
07. trad.: The Apostles’ Creed
William Byrd:
08. The Responses
09. Ne irascaris Domine
10. trad.: The Prayers
11. Bach, J S: Prelude & Fugue in E minor, BWV548 ‘Wedge’
We hear ‘a record of a unique event’ for Andrew Nethsingha, who acknowledges imperfections (not that there are many) and draws attention charmingly to a moment of crisis management from the 13-year-old soloist in Allegri’s Miserere. That’s life and that’s liturgy…The malleable, sensitive trebles have what seems to me an unparalleled ability to invest text and phrase with meaning without focus-pulling, which is a decent description of the choir’s whole approach.