Rubbra: Choral Music Michael Marra "Essayed with the utmost sympathy

"Essayed with the utmost sympathy under Nicholas’s watchful lead

"It is not difficult to understand why Langton has been so assiduous in asking Boyle to write for him

The choir are full of the abandon of this delicious music and the small-scale period-instrument band Charivari Agreable accompany most agreeably (fantastic gunshot timps

The music is consistently stimulating and inventive

thereby making more room for its mouthwatering collection of original and replica keyboard instruments

Rubbra: Choral Music Michael Marra "Essayed with the utmost sympathySUMMARY TRACK LISTING REVIEWS INFO The Choir of Merton College and Benjamin Nicholas here place Rubbras sacred music at the heart of his creative life, tracing through his career the composers conviction that faith was not a subject to be illustrated but a principle that governed musical thought itself. At the head of the programme is the first recording of Cantata di Camera (Crucifixus pro nobis), in which the choir is joined by tenor Benjamin Hulett