​Honegger: Jeanne d’Arc au Bûcher – CD review: superbly vivid choral singing

Cotillard/Gallais/Lieder Camera and Madrigal Choirs/Barcelona SO and Catalonia National O/Soustrot (Alpha)First performed in concert in 1938 and fully staged for the first time in Zurich in 1942, Jeanne d’Arc au Bûcher is the only one of Arthur Honegger’s large-scale works to have maintained at least a toehold in the repertory. For Honegger, it seems, the dividing line between opera and oratorio was often a very thin one – his 1925 opera Judith later appeared in a version for the con