Polyphony

Polyphony has gained a reputation for excellence across a broad range of repertoire.  Our award-winning recordings on Hyperion include music from Britten and Rutter, to Pärt, to Cornelius.  Polyphony's concert performances of the large-scale choral works such as Messiah, Chrismas Oratorio and St John Passion have also received wide critical acclaim:

'No one but no one performs Handel's Messiah better every year than the choir Polyphony' - Evening Standard
'I would rate it among the finest John Passions I have ever heard' - The Times

This page outlines some programme ideas based on repertoire in our discography and new repertoire, which we hope will be of interest.  If you would like any further information about Polyphony, please do not hesitate to contact our General Manager.

For further details about each programme, click on the title.

To commemorate the centenary of the birth of William Walton, Polyphony will be in the studio again recording a disc of his music for their next release on Hyperion.
 

Named after the Britten work featured on the award-winning Hyperion CD and including music by Holst, Parry, Macmillan, Harvey, Finzi, Warlock, Delius and Britten.
 

This a cappella programme includes  music by Rutter, Walton and Britten, who have made an enormous contributions to British choral music.
 

From Purcell's Funeral Music for Queen Mary and Tavener Song for Athene, to Haec Dies by  Byrd and De profundis by Pärt.
 

This programme features the choral music of Estonia, Finland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark.
 

An early music Mass including settings of both Ordinary and Proper texts by a varied selection of composers.
 

Music by Liszt, Bruckner, Tormis, Schnittke, Macmillan and Tavener.

Via Pachelbel, Bach, Cornelius and Wolf.  Includes Schoenberg's Friede auf Erden.
 

More programmes coming soon...