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"Birmingham Bach
Choir has every right to name itself after this most imposing
and inspiring of composers... its members have acquired a
natural response to his music which, allied with an inbred
feel for living scholarship worn unobtrusively lightly, makes
their performances of Bach's music especially convincing and
exhilarating.
Under Paul Spicer's fluent and persuasive direction the choir
delivered Bach's almost instrumentally laidout choral writing
with confident familiarity, well-paced energy and firm, positive
diction...Special praise to the tenors, unflinching from the
honour Bach gives them in kicking off some of the most spectacular
choruses, but applause everywhere for the way the choristers
brought to life all these frescoes in sound "
Christopher
Morley, Birmingham Post
20 December 2004
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