| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 23-Feb-2013 St George's Bristol | The divine and the worldly: Exultate Singers at St George's Bristol |
 Choral concerts often have programmes that read like compilation CDs. I don’t mean this negatively: there are countless reasons why a greater number of contrasting pieces is required – timbral, textual, temporal, contextual, historical, and so on. The programme of motets and madrigals, old and new, for Exultate Singers’ A Sense of the Divine concert would entice many a CD collector and concert-goer alike. Exultate are a rising star in the choral world and the choir’s brilliance in this concert sang of its continued ascension.Read full review... | |
| 17-Jan-2013 St John's Church, Waterloo | Modern music in London from Oakham School Chamber Choir |
 This was my second visit to the Brandenburg Choral Festival, and I was looking forward to seeing younger performers tackle some challenging music. The experience outlined in the programme that Oakham School Chamber Choir have had is impressive, with the school giving over 80 concerts a year and touring recently to Dublin and Paris. This auditioned choir has around 30 of Oakham’s best singers and so they were going to have to impress.
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| 20-Apr-2012 Carnegie Hall: Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage | John Daly Goodwin Bids Farewell to the New York Choral Society |
 After 25 years at the helm, John Daly Goodwin, Music Director of the New York Choral Society (NYCS), gave his final concert Friday night at Carnegie Hall. Titled ‘American Reflections’, all five works had an historical relationship with the New York Choral Society, three of which were commissioned and premiered by the NYCS: Paulus’ Whitman’s New York, De Cormier’s Legacy and Gould’s Quotations. More than a look at the legacy of American choral work, this unique progamme was also an opportunity for Goodwin to reflect on his own history with the NYCS.Read full review... | |
| 7-Apr-2012 Wiener Minoritenkirche | Magisterial Bruckner from Vienna's Chorus sine nomine |
 A fair amount of Bruckner gets performed in Vienna, but it’s rare to hear a Bruckner Mass and even rarer to hear one programmed alongside a piece like Ligeti’s Lux Aeterna. The Viennese love these slightly outside-the-box mainstream programmes, to the extent that it’s rather puzzling as to why we don’t hear more of them, and especially given the surprising ways lesser-known hometown ensembles like the Chorus sine nomine can respond to the challenge of unfamiliar repertoire.
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