Mike Brewer's World Tour - NYC
Choir & Organ
June 2010
FIVE STARS
Brewer's travels through Africa, Asia, the Pacific, the Americas and Europe produced this impressive collection of music. The director-arranger asks a lot from his young singers: not only do they have to adopt the traditional musical styles of each country, they also have to produce sounds of the elements, animals and instruments to illustrate the text, combined with complex rhythmic structures. As always, the National Youth Choir of Great Britain doesn't let him down. The singing is technically strong and totally uninhibited, the soloists gifted; and the considerable range of dynamics used must have given the producer nightmares! If you need a feel-good factor, this is it.