March 2015
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Review: St Matthew Passion
Centre stage was the Sherborne Chamber Choir whose rich, controlled singing, in the original German, gripped us from the outset. Attention to diction and phrasing were ever apparent and the chorales in particular came across with a directness that was quite uplifting. The short choral interjections such as Barabbam (Barabbas) and Lass ihn kreuzigen (Let…