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In the BeginningSUMMARY TRACK LISTING REVIEWS INFO The new Choir of Merton College, Oxford is rapidly emerging as a major force in collegiate choral music. Its debut recording bookended by Gabriel Jacksons ravishing version of the rarely set Johannine Prologue and Coplands glowing account of the first seven days of creation makes inventive play with the theme of beginnings and endings, in a sequence of Renaissance and modern works that reflects the range and reach of

Dr Kitchen’s fine organ solos

The choral singing combines polish with verve

the upward jumps immaculate but never mechanical

though clear and strong

which are quite possibly unprecedented for a choral piece on the scale of Say it to the Still World"

Its laconic immediacy is well served by Edward Rushton’s to-the-point pianism"

"a supreme achievement … Every one a gem

there is a real sense of enthusiasm which never intrudes into the technical security of the performance but adds a lovely lustre to Delphian's luxuriant recording

The album title

of composers Sally Beamish

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this beautiful

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