Choral music
List of News Articles
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When composers don't write a full Mass
15 September 2025
Some sections of the Mass are more popular than others ...![]()
The SCO Chorus on music for Lent
10 March 2025
With Easter just around the corner, we delve into perhaps the richest (and often darkest) choral repertoire of all ...![]()
Visions of the afterlife: the Requiem Mass
20 January 2025
Depending on whom you ask, death can be comforting or inspire holy terror, including in composers writing a Mass for the Dead.![]()
The story behind Silent Night and other carols
18 November 2024
The history of Christmas carols is long and surprisingly varied - we look at a few of them.![]()
Why is there so little classical Christmas music?
28 October 2024
Where are all the Christmas classics from the great composers?![]()
Heavenly realms
6 May 2024
We look at some of the many depictions of Heaven in the Christian choral tradition.![]()
Mendelssohn and the Bach revival
15 April 2024
How Bach fell from favour and rose to glory again ...![]()
The SCO Chorus' favourite Christmas music
27 November 2023
Read about (and listen to) a selection of the SCO Chorus' seasonal favourites - merry Christmas!![]()
Gregory Batsleer: "Schubert's Mass in A-flat is a real hidden gem"
6 November 2023
We spoke to the SCO Chorus Director about a little-known part of Schubert's oeuvre.![]()
Richard Egarr on Bach's "sacred monument for mankind"
4 September 2023
We interview the SCO favourite on a cornerstone of the choral repertoire, Bach's B minor Mass.![]()
Handel (and others): music for coronations
27 February 2023
There's a lot more to the music at a British coronation than Zadok ...![]()
The Heart of Night: an interview with Anna Clyne and Greg Batsleer
12 December 2022











