Choir of the King’s Consort
(Vivat)Recorded in the Lutyens church of St Judes,Hampstead, this album of unaccompanied British choral works shows the 28-strong Choir of the King Consort, and especially known for baroque performance,in a wealthy, lushly romantic light. Texts in more than one version (as with “Bring us, or O Lord God” and “Drop,Drop, Slow Tears”), and are set by 11 composers from the past 120 years,from Stanford and Parry to James MacMillan and John Tavener. Herbert Howells’s dusky “pick Him, Earth, or for Cherishing” (1964),written after the death of John F Kennedy, and William H Harris’s magniloquent setting for double choir of Spenser’s “Faire is the Heaven” stand out.
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Source: theguardian.com