At last year's Bath Festival, James Wood's New London Chamber Choir gave a quite brilliant concert that was the high point of a weekend devoted to the music of Iannis Xenakis. Now here comes the recording, and it serves the composer's craggy, architectural music just as well....
Everything is delivered with staggering virtuosity by these astonishing amateur singers under their conductor James Wood, and the instrumentalists of Critical Band. A likely disc of the year.