James Whitbourn: Living Voices and other choral works – review

Westminster Williamson Voices/ Jordan(Naxos)Here's another welcome collection from a truly original communicator in modern British choral music. Whitbourn's interest in the compelling combination of voices and the soprano saxophone dominates here, his 2001 Son of God Mass using the instrument in improvisatory, spiritual mode to link the sections of the mass and overlay a lithe counterpoint to the choir. Similarly, in Requiem canticorum, written last year, saxophonist Jeremy Powell spreads a heal...

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