Rebecca Tavener | Choir & Organ magazine, Spring 2024

“Mercy-bearing visions granted to the Polish nun and mystic, St Maria Faustina Kowalska, are both inspiration and framework for this deeply thoughtful and moving cantata. Latin scriptural verses and liturgical texts weave around English translations of Faustina’s words, communicated superbly by professional choir and viscerally vivid soloists, supported by remarkably varied and rich strata of string colour from Kinetic.

Knaggs embraces many historical influences, powerfully and unapologetically evident in an instantly relatable work which offers, nonetheless, deeper insights with repeated listening to this immediate and immersive SACD recording. A classic for our time, perhaps?.”

Houston Chamber Choir Presents Rachmaninoff's Finest Work
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Houston Chamber Choir Presents Rachmaninoff's Finest Work

Houston Chamber Choir will present Sergei Rachmaninoff’s “All-Night Vigil” on Saturday and Sunday at Rice University. The choir will offer this masterpiece within the warm acoustics of the Edythe Bates Old Recital Hall and Grand Organ at Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music.

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