COMPOSERS: Grainger and Grieg
LABELS: Helios
ALBUM TITLE: At Twilight
WORKS: Choral music
PERFORMER: Paul Agnew, David Wilson-Johnson, Polyphony/Stephen Layton
CATALOGUE NO: CDH 55236 (1994)
Grainger’s mastery of choral textures shines out of this wide-ranging collection of folk-song arrangements, each highly individual and memorable. Plus his friend Grieg’s finely scored religious settings. Superior performances by Stephen Layton and Polyphony.
George Hall.