When a contingent of mostly British forces performs the red-blooded Italian Verdi Requiem, most listeners would expect results to be a little . . . well, staid. Fortunately, that is not the case here. When this recording was first released, it was announced as the first complete digital ...
Another one of my rare reviews of a classical recording - my knowledge being limited, and my claim as an authority being nonexistent, I'll keep it brief. These two great works are often presented together - over the years, I've owned three or four different recordings of them. This one is without ...
Decades before the "chant" phenomenon shook the classical charts, the London Choir of the Carmelite Priory released this solemn disc of prayers and hymns. The 1961 sonics add a slight recording hiss to the CD, but the performances are still memorable and every bit as impressive as the more famous Benedictine monk recording. As part of the Penguin Classics series of music, liner notes by author ...
A masterful performance of an overlooked masterpiece.
Bruckner's Requiem of 1849 is a masterpiece of choral works, drawing it's vibrant energy both from the baroque tradition of masters like Bach and Vivaldi and the composer's contemporary early romanticism. It is, by all measures, a massive and highly dramatic creation, and though it is much more ...
+ a voice teacher and early music fan + Give it a try!
Escuchando varias veces esta versión me doy cuenta que la perfomance mostrada por Gardiner en las obras de Mozart es exquisita,en esta versión del Requiem los tiempos son buenos (salvo en el Kyrie,debió ser un poco mas brillante),el coro y los solistas sobresalientes(cantando como en la época de ...
+ Stravinsky's Byzantine Style + Special and Sacred
I agree with Mark Swinton here, that both the choir and the orchestra are brilliant in the Symphony of Psalms. I prefer this recording to the recent-ish Boulez recording, partly because the choir maintains MUSICALITY (sorry for the all-caps there, but there are a couple of near-shrieks in the ...
I happened upon this work purely by accident and bought it immediately. If I could choose the music I'd be hearing as I leave this earth, this would be it! Russian choral music is decidedly an acquired taste; it's lugubrious to many but I find its sombre ecstasy and austere opulence uplifting. ...
+ Russians at their best. + Ravishing Tonality ...
The Rachmaninov Vespers (more accurately, the All-Night Vigil) was composed in 1915 in a two-week period, and received to immediate acclaim -- then buried in the graveyard created by the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. Seventy-five years after its debut, a plethora of new recordings surfaced, done ...
Limited edition set of Sir Colin Davis doing Berlioz
+ Some of the best of the Davis cycle
A complete review of this set will follow at a later date. What I wish to highlight here is that this set contains Davis's reading of Berlioz's Requiem, though it is not listed as part of the contents in Amazon's description. (I've submitted a suggestion that it be added.) Those genuinely ...
A powerful and authentic performance, well recorded
+ Historical and inspiring + Well, I'm actually used to it... + Byzantine Liturgy - 1600 Years and Still Going Strong + The Most Inspiring Liturgy...Ever.
9 reviews
13 reviews
3 reviews
