EX CATHEDRA | Spring Season of Love and Beauty

‘A journey of discovery, with the unknown 16th century Claude Le Jeune rubbing shoulders with composers of today – America’s Morten Lauridsen and Gerald Busby (both masters of lush choral textures) and our own John Joubert, present to modestly acknowledge his Three Portraits, a work whose harmonic directness and economy of means (so vibrantly sung here) make such a powerful emotional impact. There was also Britten (the Five Flower Songs, tailor-made for the occasion) delivered, as was everything, with subtly pointed intimacy and expressively charged attention to detail.’ (Birmingham PostRead the rest of the review…