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Independent on Sunday - November 1996
A sequence of modern music to ancient texts - linked by austere
insertions of Sarum plainchant - that surveys the renaissance of
interest in the art-carol among most of the leading British composers of
the first half of this century (Howells, Walton, Warlock, Leighton are
all represented). Stephen Layton's choir, Polyphony, is superb: one of
the best mixed-voice professional ensembles in the business, with a
virtuosity that doesn't turn it into the vocal machine you get from,
say, the BBC Singers. This is soft, pliant, seductive singing and the
most completely recommendable new issue for Christmas I've found so far.
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