Their performance captured its mercurial moods, hushed and meditative, brash, exuberant and serene in turn, and it was crowned by some beautiful soaring vocal lines from counter-tenor Matthew Venner. It was matched by a haunting and rapt performance from this virtuoso choir of Samuel Barber’s Agnus Dei, a vocal transcription of his Adagio for Strings. MacMillan’s Mass, sung in English, is grand, austere and vocally demanding. (The Birmingham Post) Read the rest of the review…