Choral music
List of News Articles
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
Israel in Egypt (according to the SCO Chorus)
14 November 2022