"Jesus and the traders, a pillar of 20th-century a cappella choral music, tells the familiar story of Jesus and the money-changers. In addition to the harmonic complexity of the work - indeed, this is Kodály at his furthest out (not all that far; it's still strongly tonal) - there is a killer fugato as well as passages of rapid close canon, and the choir must sort it all out by itself.

I've heard lots of performances, some by very good choirs indeed, but I've not heard anyone but Parkman bri...