An album of dramatic choral contrasts Including Vide Cor Meum (Hannibal), Hymn to the Fallen (Saving Private Ryan), The Lion in Winter, Dry Your Tears Africa (Amistad), Ryde of the Valkyries (Apocalypse Now), Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Crouch End Festival Chorus was founded in 1984 by David Temple and John Gregson, who had met and sung together in London with the Philharmonic Choir. Under their guidance and innovative leadership, CEFC has risen to be one of the leading large choirs in the UK, with repertoire encompassing both the standard classics and less familiar works from the twentieth and twenty-first century. CEFC regularly commission new large-scale works and the choir maintains a busy recording schedule. For Silva Classics they recorded three albums of Cinema Choral Classics as well as a double CD of Benjamin Britten’s The Company Of Heaven, Will Todd’s The Burning Road and Philip Glass’ Songs from Liquid Days. In 2000, the choir performed in London’s Millennium Concert with Simply Red, The Eurythmics and soprano Lesley Garrett. |