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List of News Articles

  1. 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 ...
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  2. 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.
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  3. 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.
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  4. Why is there so little classical Christmas music?

    28 October 2024

    Where are all the Christmas classics from the great composers?
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  5. Heavenly realms

    6 May 2024

    We look at some of the many depictions of Heaven in the Christian choral tradition.
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  6. Mendelssohn and the Bach revival

    15 April 2024

    How Bach fell from favour and rose to glory again ...
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  7. The SCO Chorus' favourite Christmas music

    27 November 2023

    Read about (and listen to) a selection of the SCO Chorus' seasonal favourites - merry Christmas!
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  8. 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.
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  9. 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.
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  10. Handel (and others): music for coronations

    27 February 2023

    There's a lot more to the music at a British coronation than Zadok ...
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  11. The Heart of Night: an interview with Anna Clyne and Greg Batsleer

    12 December 2022

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  12. Israel in Egypt (according to the SCO Chorus)

    14 November 2022

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