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James McCarthy: Codebreaker & Will Todd: Ode to a Nightingale
Julia Doyle (soprano)
BBC Concert Orchestra, Hertfordshire Chorus, David Temple
Taken as a whole I greatly admired the honesty and sincerity of this music drama…The BBC Concert Orchestra offer superb support to both composers and the engineering is up to Signum’s customary...
James McCarthy: Codebreaker & Will Todd: Ode to a Nightingale
Julia Doyle (soprano)
BBC Concert Orchestra, Hertfordshire Chorus, David Temple
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Taken as a whole I greatly admired the honesty and sincerity of this music drama…The BBC Concert Orchestra offer superb support to both composers and the engineering is up to Signum’s customary...
About
Hertfordshire Chorus continue to build on their reputation for commissioning and performing some of the very best in contemporary choral music. In their first recording with Signum they are joined by the BBC Concert Orchestra for a 2CD set featuring James McCarthy’s Codebreaker (an exploration of the life of the pioneering computer scientist and mathematician Alan Turing) and Will Todd’s Ode to a Nightingale (setting the famous poem by John Keats).
Contents and tracklist
- Julia Doyle
- Hertfordshire Chorus, BBC Concert Orchestra
- David Temple
- BBC Concert Orchestra, Hertfordshire Chorus
- David Temple
Awards and reviews
November 2017
Taken as a whole I greatly admired the honesty and sincerity of this music drama…The BBC Concert Orchestra offer superb support to both composers and the engineering is up to Signum’s customary excellence. This important release should be in every keen choral singer’s Christmas stocking.
Classical Ear
Codebreaker is an exceptional achievement on numerous counts… What really hits home is its warmth, compassion and emotional ardour.
