Judith Weir: Storm | Album Review

This invigorating selection of Judith Weir’s choral music is nothing if not varied.

There's a millennium celebration of Perotin (All the Ends of the Earth), a gorgeous blend of old and new; a Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (from someone who "had very little personal experience of the Anglican liturgy for much of my life"); a spirited, multilingual Missa del Cid, imagining (with narrator) a mass attended by the conquering El Cid and his troops; The Song Sung True, a paean to singing itself, commissioned for the London Lawyers' Chorus from the bequest of a music-loving colleague; and Storm, an otherworldly, Brittenesque clutch of settings from Shakespeare's The Tempest for high voices and instruments.

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