Editorial Reviews
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If you're looking for a traversal of Britten's choral works that contains consistently excellent performances, complementary sound, and includes works rarely heard in concert or on disc, don't hesitate to buy the three volumes recorded by The Sixteen, the third of which features the Missa Brevis, A Ceremony of Carols, and eight shorter works. Of these shorter pieces "A Shepherd's Carol," with text by W.H. Auden, and "Sweet was the Song," a carol for unaccompanied women's voices, are the least familiar, but both exude the wonderful tunefulness, charm, and ingenious use of text that are characteristic of Britten's larger and better- known works. The disc's "big money" piece, A Ceremony of Carols, sung by women's voices (with three male altos), gets a fresh, bright, energetic reading that's faithful to the spirit of the original version, written for boy trebles. --David Vernier
Britten: The Choral Works, Vol. III - Missa Brevis in D major, Op. 63; A Ceremony of Carols, for trumpet, voices & harp, Op. 28; Festival Te Deum, for trumpet, SATB chorus & organ, Op. 32; etc., Music, Britten, Christophers, The Sixteen, Classical, Classical Music
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