Canter Bridge

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This wildly eclectic anthology of well-known pieces, performed by an accomplished musical company to modest instrumental accompaniment, is a sampler of what grouped voices can accomplish under masterful directorship in the sparest of styles.

This album introduces what the Singers can do. It is held together not by genre or composer but simply by the fact that varying traditions are performed here by the group, thus the word ‘Collection’ in the title.

If you like what the Cambridge singers do here, you’ll likely want to purchase one of their more thematically consistent albums, perhaps beginning with their Christmas album.

Choral music maintains its lively presence at Cambridge in spite of a million competing, and sometimes distracting, pressures. Perhaps it’s something in the air or water of the ancient university town. Clare College, Cambridge, is the anchor of the Singers, and to be thanked for performing that role.