Wisdom & Strength: Contemporary Sacred Choral Music

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Wisdom & Strength: Contemporary Sacred Choral MusicSUMMARY TRACK LISTING REVIEWS INFO Wisdom & Strength takes the listener through the liturgy of an imaginary Sunday in settings by a clutch of diverse living composers, while at the same time traversing the spiritually richest parts of the Churchs year the darkness of Lent and Holy Week, the joy of Easter, and the mysterious beauty and power of the feasts of the Ascension, Pentecost and Trinity. To this programme, Siglo de Oro brings the same

all but a few of them premiere recordings

John Stainer made it his life’s work to reform and renew the standards of music in schools

'This disc is something of an antidote to those discs of refulgent early Tudor polyphony

and darker intensity

"They sing with great assurance and flexibility and the sopranos take no prisoners in their attack on their high lines

Delphian has taken a snapshot of LMN’s activity

continue-at-all-costs need to sing

France and Germany

Beautifully captured at Crear in Argyll by Delphian's Paul Baxter

one of Handel’s last works completed nine years or so before his death

Piquant melodic fragments one second

the latter three all dating from a decade in which English composers were exceptionally preoccupied by these Biblical verses