Iain Paterson, a gruffly resonant Evangelist, with Sir Mark Elder Sancta Civitas has no tunes as such. Instead it revolves around no more than a couple of musical ideas. A sequence of dissonant chords ...

Nothing asserts “Hungarian Gypsy music” quite strongly as a cimbalom centre stage. In case you haven’t met one before, it’s a large zither on legs, its elaborate system of strings played with a pair ...