This discussion started as part of the one on Peter Benoit's De Oorlog (Der Krieg), but to avoid confusion I thought it best to continue it in a separate thread.
In the commentary, Jac van Steen commented on Bamert's recording of this work (on Chandos, from the early 1990s) and claimed that Bamert "didn't have a great choir". Honestly, I can't see his point; the choir in the Bamert is perfectly adequate. There is, however, a clear difference in recording balance between both recordings; in the newer recording, the choir is placed further to the front. I'm not entirely sure that is a good thing, to be honest.