The listener who enjoys the sound of all-boy choirs can pick from quite a variety of approaches among the venerable British cathedral organizations as well as newer groups that have sprung up. The Choristers of St. Paul's Cathedral offer a middle ground between a pure traditional sound with lots of unaccompanied Renaissance music and newer pop-influenced styles. The music here, mostly accompanied with an orchestra playing a nicely varied set of arrangements by City of London Sinfonia conductor John Scott and others, is ...
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The listener who enjoys the sound of all-boy choirs can pick from quite a variety of approaches among the venerable British cathedral organizations as well as newer groups that have sprung up. The Choristers of St. Paul's Cathedral offer a middle ground between a pure traditional sound with lots of unaccompanied Renaissance music and newer pop-influenced styles. The music here, mostly accompanied with an orchestra playing a nicely varied set of arrangements by City of London Sinfonia conductor John Scott and others, is above all distinguished by its great tunes. Those tunes may be in relics of the Victorian and Edwardian eras (Hubert Parry's Long since in Egypt's plenteous land), other Romantic works, music by contemporary purveyors of pleasing melody (John Rutter), in hymns such as the title track, or in folk songs, of which there are several famous ones on the disc. If you enjoy tunes like Annie Laurie or The Ash Grove, the versions here are pretty without being cute. Several of the child soloists...
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