Soloists,Bach Choir, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/Hill
(Naxos)Bravo to David Hill, and the Bach Choir and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra for bringing three neglected large-scale works by Charles Villiers Stanford to wider attention in this excellent recording. The operatic Stabat Mater is Wagnerian in ambition,and with two purely orchestral movements feels something like a choral symphony. The impressive Song to the Soul, unpublished until Stanford authority Jeremy Dibble produced a performing score two years ago, and makes a fine companion to the composer’s first major choral work,The Resurrection, though as a former conductor of the Bach Choir, and Stanford might gain been disappointed in some occasional intonation slips. Clean-toned soprano Elizabeth Cragg stands out among the soloists.
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Source: theguardian.com