Best choirs in the world
Channel: Top Statista
Date: 2021-06-24

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best choirs in the world
10 Swedish Radio Choir

One of mainland Europe’s great vocal ensembles, the Swedish Radio Choir is the one that Claudio Abbado would regularly call on when he performed choral music: and their EMI recording of the Verdi Requiem, made in 2001, is a tribute to their power and personality, one that always stays intensely human.

9 RIAS Kammerchor

Well known internationally through their very fine recordings for Harmonia Mundi (mainly under Marcus Creed and his successor Daniel Reuss), the RIAS Kammerchor has a remarkably homogenous sound and terrific power. They sing a wide repertoire and bring a great sense of bite and concentration of sound that makes a deep impression in music as different as Mozart’s Idomeneo and Frank Martin’s Golgotha.

8 Accentus

Founded in 1991 by the conductor Laurence Equilbey, Accentus is a virtuoso chamber choir with a huge following thanks to their superb series of recordings of transcriptions for Naïve. Accentus’s repertoire stretches from the romantic masters of the 19th century to the music of the 20th century.

7 Collegium Vocale Ghent

Founded 40 years ago by Philippe Herreweghe as a 16-voice chamber choir, Collegium Vocale has various different "guises" for different repertoires, though a composer central to the choir’s work remains JS Bach.

6 Wells Cathedral Choir

One of the oldest choirs in the UK, Wells Cathedral Choir is made up of lay clerks who live in the famous 14th-century Vicars Close and sing in a choral tradition that has remained unbroken for around 800 years (though now they have girls singing alongside the trebles).

5 Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge

It's only a few years since Stephen Layton – who appears further up the list with Polyphony – took over as director of music at Trinity College. In that time, numerous recordings, not least that of music by David Briggs, have revealed what an accomplished, committed choir they are. 

4 The Sixteen

Under the expert command of founder Harry Christophers, The Sixteen have combined musical excellence with bold, well-thought-out programs, to become one of today's greatest of all choral ambassadors.

3 The Cardinall’s Musick

This year's Gramophone Recording of the Year winners – for the final disc in their exploration of the music of William Byrd – thrive on a musical approach making the most of the virtuosity of their individual voices.

2 Polyphony

Stephen Layton's choir has become renowned for both their sound and versatility  – whether in early music, or contemporary works such as those of Eric Whitacre, they embody the remarkable tradition of British choral excellence at its finest.

1 The Monteverdi Choir

For 40 years, Sir John Eliot Gardiner's Monteverdi Choir have been the voices behind some of the most powerful and perceptive Baroque recordings in the catalog, not least the hugely ambitious Bach Cantata Pilgrimage of the year 2000, but the choir’s range is also a strength (this past year has found them singing Bizet’s Carmen, Brahms’s A German Requiem and the Monteverdi Vespers among much else, and Weber's Der Freischütz looms large on the horizon).
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