Sir Davis Colin/ London Symphony Orchestra - Berlioz: L'Enfance du christ Release:Berlioz: L'Enfance du christ Alto Mendelssohn/ Shostakovich/ Mathieu/ Lefevre -

Mendelssohn/ Shostakovich/ Mathieu/ Lefevre - Concertos & Concertino

The Axeman Cometh

Yuletide cool and the unwrapping of that special present

Written following the youthful Schubert's expulsion from the Imperial Choir School in Vienna after his voice broke (he lost his mother the same year)

Sir Davis Colin/ London Symphony Orchestra - Berlioz: L'Enfance du christ Release:Berlioz: L'Enfance du christ Alto Mendelssohn/ Shostakovich/ Mathieu/ Lefevre -Financial Times' Disc of the Year; New York Times' CDs of the Year "Performance: * Recording: * 'Beuron, probably today's finest lyric tenor, gives the performance an essential idiomatic core in his narration [Tenebrae are] dramatically alert and glowing as stained glass, the angelic messages skin pricklingly ethereal." (BBC Music Magazine) "[Sir Colin's] revisitation of this truly classic score is utterly and totally compelling.' (International