Joined by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Tenebrae performs contrastingly iconic responses to the Book of Psalms by Stravinsky, Bernstein and Zemlinsky, plus Schoenberg’s fiendishly unaccompanied Friede auf Erden.
SIGCD492 62 minutes 38 seconds
‘It’s good to hear Bernstein’s original design of the solo for a countertenor being respected for once. Allsopp makes much more of the words than most trebles, and there is an arresting immediacy to b ...