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Eton Choirbook -
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ROBERT ANDERSON

'... vibrant and alive.'

Music from the Eton Choirbook. Lambe; Stratford; Davy; Browne; Kellyk; Wylkynson. Tonus Peregrinus. © 2012 Naxos Rights International Ltd

Eton has produced many prime ministers, but just one Choirbook. The latter dates from about 1500, when its magnificent sonorities floated up towards the fan-vaulting of the College Chapel. That's arrant nonsense, as that particular ceiling is more or less contemporary with our present Prime Minister's origin...

Copyright © 1 September 2012 Robert Anderson,
London UK

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