St Luke Passion: The Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ According to Luke: SATB, Children's Choir, Organ, and Chamber Orchestra

(Boosey & Hawkes Scores/Books). Scored for chorus, children's choir, organ and chamber orchestra, St. Luke Passion adopts a pared-back focus on choral voices over its 75-minute span. Seeking a more spiritual, inward approach to match Luke's text, the composer eschews settings of interpolated texts as arias and the customary Evangelist and Christ soli: everything is sung by choral forces. A children's choir grants a measure of innocence to Christ as the sacrificial lamb, emphasising aspects ...