Stanhope
Lux Aeterna
Sydney Chamber Choir/Paul Stanhope 
ABC Classics 4816296

Numerous studies continue to confirm what most amateur choristers have always known: singing in a choir is good for you. All over Australia large numbers of volunteer singers come together every week with a variety of motives; whether in the service of high art music or religion; or in the celebration of ethnicity, age, gender, sexuality or just plain friendship. Such activity not only enriches our nation’s artistic life, but produces positive outcomes for singers’ physical and mental health.

Sydney composer Paul Stanhope was himself a chorister in the Sydney Chamber Choir before he took over its...