
The Europadisc Review
Advent Live Vol.3
Andrew Nethsingha, George Herbert, Choir of St John’s College Cambridge, James Ande...
£9.52
Since 2016 the Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge, under its recently departed Director of Music Andrew Nethsingha, has treated listeners to a splendid series of recordings on its own imprint, part of the Signum Classics group. Two series of discs – ‘Magnificat’ and ‘Advent Live’ – have been particularly impressive, and when it came to choosing our annual Christmas recommendation for 2023, Volume 3 of ‘Advent Live’ quickly became an obvious choice. It documents services across three years, from 2020 to 2022: 2020 was performed and broadcast ‘live’ but without a congregation present, coming ... read more
Since 2016 the Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge, under its recently departed Director of Music Andrew Nethsingha, has treated listeners to a splendid series of recordings on its own imprint, part of the Signum Classics group. Two series of discs... read more
Advent Live Vol.3

Andrew Nethsingha, George Herbert, Choir of St John’s College Cambridge, James Anderson-Besant (organ), Oliver Wass (harp), Joseph Wicks (organ), George Herbert (organ)
The Spin Doctor Europadisc's Weekly Column

Who is the Greatest of Them All? 29th November 2023
29th November 2023
It was probably in 1999 that I became aware of the scale of the problem and the sheer stupidity of it all: HMV stores (remember those?) and the UK’s Channel 4 network teamed up (together with minor input from Classic FM) to conduct a poll to determine the ‘Music of the Millennium’. Well, it was asking for trouble, wasn’t it? A millennium: that’s a thousand years by normal reckoning. Yet with the sole exception of the ‘Best Piece of Classical Music’* and ‘Best Classical Composer’** categories, the entire poll was dominated by music of the previous four decades. In a millennial context, the choices looked desperately myopic. Best Songwriter (of the Millennium, remember): John Lennon; of Franz Schubert and Robert Schumann, not a whiff, let alone Guillaume de Machaut or Josquin Desprez. Best Male Singer? Elvis Presley, followed by Robbie Williams and Michael Jackson. Sorry about... read more