Web's Best Choral Performances

For the Beauty of the Earth - by John Rutter - performed by Saint Paul Cathedral Choir, London Laudate Dominum - Vesperae Solemmes de Confessore (KV 339) - by W.A. Mozart - performed by the Swedish Radio Choir, Rachel Harnish, soprano and the Berlin Philharmonic, Claudio Abbado, conductor A Thanksgiving Song - Psalm 100 - arranger unknown - performed by The Martins Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing - arranged Mack Wilberg - performed by the choir and orchestra of Brigham Young University

Taipei Chamber Singers Guest Conductor: Bob Chilcott Source Channel: Kuangchien

From the Anuna web site: Michael McGlynn founded An Uaithne in 1987. "My original idea was to create something that would make people aware of the beauty of choral music by introducing it to them in a way that they could understand. I started singing in choirs at the age of 19, and I couldn't believe that something so beautiful existed that I had never heard of before. I think that I got the sound of Anúna into my head right back on the first day I started singing with other voices for the first time. I had just begun composing at that time and I found that An Uaithne offered me a chance to have my own original music performed. I knew then that this was something I wanted to do for the rest of my life." The development of An Uaithne into Anúna was slow but sure. By 1991 the choir had gone from singing standard choral music, with an emphasis on contemporary and ancient music, to performing Michael's arrangements of medieval and traditional Irish works combined with his

In The Bleak Mid-Winter" Christ Church Choir, Oxford. Stephen Darlington took his choir from Christ Church , Oxford, out into the Czech countryside to get the feeling what might be meant by a "bleak midwinter. Source Channel: wem3