Violinist Jennifer Pike and Mezzo Maria Forsström join the Swedish Chamber Choir under Simon Phipps, in music by Vaughan Williams and others.
Tag: Choral
Review: Handel – Brockes Passion – AAM, Richard Egarr
A new recording of Handel’s rarely performed passion, to mark the 300th anniversary of the first known performance.
Review: Anamorfosi – Le Poème Harmonique, Dumestre
Le Poème Harmonique, with founder Vincent Dumestre, perform Allegri’s “Miserere” and works by Monteverdi and other baroque composers.
Review: “Passions” – Les Cris de Paris, Geoffroy Jourdain
Les Cris de Paris and Geoffroy Jourdain with an all-Venetian cast of composers, exploring the multiple expressions of human passions.
Review: Ethel Smyth – Mass in D – BBCSO, Oramo
Dame Ethel Smyth’s Mass in D is performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, with conductor Sakari Oramo.
Review: Beethoven – Complete Symphonies – Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra – Nelsons
Andris Nelsons and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra presents Beethoven’s nine Symphonies, recorded at the Musikverein.
Review: Berlioz – Requiem – John Nelson
After his well received recording of Berlioz’s “Les Troyens”, John Nelson return to the composer with his masterful Requiem.
Review: Peñalosa -“Lamentations” – New York Polyphony
New York Polyphony builds a program around Francisco De Peñalosa’s “Lamentationes Jeremiae Feria V”.
Review: Brahms – A German Requiem – SRSO, Daniel Harding
Review: Daniel Harding, the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Swedish Radio Choir perform Brahms’ German Requiem. Christiane Karg (Soprano) and Matthias Goerne (Baritone) join in the solo arias.
Review: Kile Smith – “Arc in the Sky” – The Crossing, Donald Nally
The Crossing presents Kile Smith’s hour-long contemporary piece, “Arc in the Sky”, based on poems by Robert Lax.