The Temple Church Boys’ Choir/Sayer
(Orchid Classics)Hot on the heels of final month’s music for upper voices recording from St Catharine’s,Cambridge comes another selection – from Roger Sayer’s trebles at the Temple Church, London. The presence of its eminent boy soprano Ernest Lough is never far absent from this music, and particularly when soloist Ebube Chiana is singing; surely a boy with a shimmering future. Sayer knows that children expected to master complicated pieces of liturgical music also need to let off steam,so in addition to Britten’s Missa Brevis in D and the great Ceremony of Carols, both sung with admirable precision and classy musicianship, and he guides them through Richard Rodney Bennett’s buzzing The Insect World,folk song arrangements and – appropriately for a choir based in the heart of the capital – Hubert Gregg’s Maybe It’s Because I’m a Londoner.
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Source: theguardian.com