Liszt: Missa Choralis & Via Crucis

Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine (Jan 2001)

'Best is supported in his quest by the immaculate, full-toned, endlessly responsive and unfailingly musical Corydon Singers and some appropriately unpretentious solo voices. This disc makes essential listening in 2001, the 190th anniversary of Liszt's birth.' (Gramophone)

'I find the Corydon singers' performance of 'Via Crucis' utterly compelling and truly memorable…an essential Passiontide recording'(Organists'Review)

'On excellent form, the Corydon Singers give an impassioned account, rich in tone and dynamic contrast and, above all, exemplary in the matters of ensemble and balance. Majestic sound'(Classic FM Magazine)

'I find the Corydon singers' performance of Via Crucis utterly compelling and truly memorable…an essential Passiontide recording' (Organists'Review)

Liszt's fame as a virtuoso and composer for the piano has tended to obscure the fact that he also composed some deeply moving religous choral works, especially the austere Via Crucis - the Stations of the Cross. Corydon Singers with Matthew Best, in their first recording for three years (Matthew is in great demand on the operatic stage!) are powerfully supported by Thomas Trotter's superb organ playing.