Now in its sixth festival, the all-girl Brighton Festival Youth Choir (BFYC) gave its first lunchtime recital on Monday - and a marvellous occasion it was.
The 36-strong choir, beautifully dressed in black, with freshly-scrubbed, shiny faces and neat hair-dos, produced a lively programme, from pop music to the classics, as well as some folk tunes from around Britain, all under the direction of mezzo-soprano Juliette Pochin.
Whether it was Durufle's Tota Pulchra Es, a medley from the show's sister act, or the haunting Ave Verum by Faure, this was choral singing of a high and surprisingly mature nature.
In choir members Katya and Katrina, the choir has a useful duet, as they showed in Purcell's Sound The Trumpets.
Hazel Robins was a fine soloist in Charles Stanford's The Bluebird and the concert ended in a riot of fun with new arrangements of the tuneful Lollipop, Blue Moon and the Chattanooga Choo-Choo.
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