Selwyn’s Choir has received a 4-star review in The Times newspaper for its performance of Rachmaninov’s Vespers “All Night Vigil”. The concert was given as part of the City of London Festival at the Church of St Bartholomew the Great in East London.
Neil Fisher’s review (extract) said the choir director Sarah MacDonald had “led a beautifully sustained performance in which intonation remained secure — no mean feat — and the blend of voices was cool, elegant and textually responsive. Selwyn doesn’t have the gravelly Russian basses Rachmaninov probably imagined singing the low B-flats (don’t students smoke fancy French cigarettes any more?) but the particularly resonant solo alto brought a velvety gravitas to the proceedings. This is another classy choral outfit to add to the more established names on the Oxbridge roster.”
You can read the full review here (note The Times online is a subscription service): http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/arts/music/classical/article4143987.ece
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