Mass for Double Choir

CD of choral music by Bernard Stevens, performed by the Finzi Singers, director Paul Spicer. Recorded on the Chandos label. ‘A beautifully composed example of modal polyphony – reborn intermittently by chromatic alteration. Christian Masses often reserve their finest music for the ritualistically significant Agnus Dei. Stevens’ Mass is no exception, its end is a moving as it is devotional’ – Wilfred Mellers Bernard Stevens and his Music pub. Kahn and Averill. ‘The music is constantly subtly altered like the shifting colours of light refracted through a revolving prism. When the tranquil closing is reached, Stevens achieves a wonderfully memorable sense of spiritual calm’ – Patrick Russell