Classical Year in Review: Passion, high-quality performances in superior efforts

"Equally as refreshing, in July the Choir of Trinity College Cambridge appeared in a night of demanding, mainly contemporary music under the Musica Viva umbrella. This ensemble turned Frank Martin's Mass for Unaccompanied Double Choir into a revelation; where you expected awkwardness and effort, the British singers under Stephen Layton delineated each line with impeccable clarity, their fluent interpretation somehow improving on itself as each segment passed...."

Excerpt from a review of the year by Clive O'Connell