Neukomm: Requiem à la mémoire de Louis XVI – Jean-Claude Malgoire

   in Choir & Organ (Jan, 2014)
A Festival of Britten, a 2CD set from the national Youth Choirs of Great Britain. The enthusiasm, energy and technical skill of their music-making shines out in everything they do here, and under Parry’s overall artistic direction, he and his colleagues obtain the very best from these young performers. While it’s good to have one or two of the byways of the Britten repertoire (for example, Fancie, a Shakespeare setting from 1962, or the Hymn of St Columba from the following year), one is naturally drawn to the more familiar choral works, against which these performers face stiff competition. generally, they more than hold their own, though as one might …