To mark the 250th anniversary of Handel's death next year, the Oregon Bach Festival has commissioned Swedish composer Sven-David Sandstrom to reset Handel's "Messiah" texts in a joint commission with ...
On this new disc, the Berlin Radio Chorus under its inspiring music director, Simon Halsey, spans five centuries of grandly scaled choral polyphony. Anchoring the program is Thomas Tallis’ “Spem in ...