Music for Palm Sunday (Yale Camerata)

This concert featuring David Lang's little match girl passion and Benjamin Britten's Saint Nicolas provided an excellent window to the shared sonorities and interests of these two very different composers.
Lang's elegant, spare work for chorus and percussion must be difficult to perform, yet Yale's young performers carried off its sophisticated harmonies and rhythms with confidence.
Britten's cantata, on the other hand, was written for amateur performers, requiring only a professional tenor to sing Nicolas' part. To fill out the chorus, the Camerata brought in the Elm City Girls Choir as well as three boy singers from the Trinity Choir. And the audience sang its two hymns with great gusto.

A lovely way to observe Palm Sunday.

Highly Recommended.