Nicholas Kenyon: Great Choral Works (BBC Proms Pocket Guides series)

The BBC Proms Guides provide all the background & information you need about some of the most popular works in the repertory. Choral singing has been a great tradition of this country's music-making, & this volume looks at some of the greatest masterpieces in the repertory, from Allegri & Tallis to Handel & Bach, large-scale 19th century works such as Mendelssohn's Elijah & the Verdi Requiem, through to the masterpieces of the 20th century which reinvented the oratorio: Elgar, Walton & Britten.