COMPOSERS: Purcell
LABELS: Teldec Das Alte Werk
WORKS: Dido and Aeneas
PERFORMER: Della Jones, Peter Harvey, Donna Deam, Susan Bickley; St James’s Singers & Baroque Players/Ivor Bolton
CATALOGUE NO: 4509 91191-2 DDD
This beautifully recorded disc is a must for church music enthusiasts. Humphrey Clucas is one of the most genuinely inspired of ‘accessible’ choral composers, and Laudibus is a first-rate ensemble. You’ll fall for his French-imbued Requiem and exquisite psalm-based Sinfonia sacra. Roderic Dunnett
Purcell: Dido and Aeneas
This beautifully recorded disc is a must for church music enthusiasts. Humphrey Clucas is one of the most genuinely inspired of ‘accessible’ choral composers, and Laudibus is a first-rate ensemble. You’ll fall for his French-imbued Requiem and exquisite psalm-based Sinfonia sacra. Roderic Dunnett
Our rating
4
Published: January 20, 2012 at 2:35 pm