Haydn's Die sieben letzten Worte unseres Erlösers am Kreuze (The Seven Last Words of Our Savior on the Cross) is unique in his output. Commissioned in 1785 as an orchestral work for Good Friday by a church in Cádiz, Spain, it posed Haydn considerable problems as he tried to reconcile the general structural principles of the Classical era with a ...
Accentus, the French a cappella ensemble, specializes in early and new music, but the scarcity of quality unaccompanied choral music from the Baroque through the early modern period inspired conductor Laurence Equilbey to seek out and commission arrangements of music from those eras. The results are evident on this, the group's second CD of ...
For some ensembles, the printed score of a composition is merely a stimulus to new creative activity. There's nothing intrinsically wrong with this, and massive revision of a work in the process of remaking it for new forces has a long list of historical precedents. The Transcriptions disc by the French a cappella chamber chorus Accentus features ...
This compelling collection of Arnold Schoenberg's choral music works well as a sampler of the composer's varied interests and changing methods, and provides clear examples from the early chromatic and atonal periods to the dodecaphony of the mature masterworks. The two versions of Friede auf Erden (the 1907 a cappella original and the 1911 version ...
This is a reissue of a 1997 disc, rereleased and apparently remastered by the Laborie label; it's both musically immensely appealing and sonically quite spectacular, the setting of the Eglise Notre-Dame du Bon Secours in Paris being nothing short of ideal for these Baroque grands motets for soloists, chorus, and orchestra. You won't learn much ...
Naïve's compilation album Classique & Zen offers no explanation of the relationship between the two concepts other than the simple direction, "You are free to be Zen." The lack of specificity in no way detracts from the effectiveness of the CD and its artful presentation. It stands out from many of the other collections with the goal of inducing a ...
Mozart's "Great Mass" in C minor, K. 427, has traditionally been given lush performances that follow from its nickname, presumably attached during the Romantic era. This fragmentary work juxtaposes expansive, operatic arias with one of the first large-scale results of the experimentation with Baroque-style counterpoint that occupied Mozart during ...
Naïve's Liszt: Via Crucis features pianist Brigitte Engerer and the chorus Accentus under Laurence Equilbey in works often thought to be among Liszt's most uncharacteristic: three movements from his lengthy piano suite Harmonies poétiques et religieuses and the whole of his late choral work Via Crucis (1879). Although more than 25 years separate ...
This is a two-disc collection of music, either recorded on France's Naïve label or acquired by that label, that arose in Vienna during the years on either side of 1900. It might be argued that the music of the Viennese fin de siècle was all about extremes -- of length, of concision, of orchestration -- and that the best way to appreciate the ...
Naïve has assembled an eclectic assortment of movements from requiems or requiem-like pieces, performed by a variety of ensembles. It's not a sampler, because not all the selections are from the catalog of Naïve or its subsidiaries. It's a somewhat odd mix of pieces, ranging from the traditional Eastern Orthodox service to a 1998 piece by Pascal ...
This is one of those best-of-all-possible worlds releases, with the nearly 80-year-old Swedish choral conductor Eric Ericson (he split the Polar Music Prize with Bruce Springsteen a few years back) leading the gorgeous young French chamber choir Accentus. At times it's almost too perfect -- something like going out on a date with someone too ...
With the compilation Time of the Templars, Naxos continues its practice of repackaging material from its catalog in thematic collections that should have broad appeal. The Order of the Knights Templar flourished in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and this collection features music that would have been part of the culture of the time, even ...
Dedicated Dvorák fans, particularly devotees of his Stabat Mater, will have to hear this recording of the work by Laurence Equilbey and the choral group Accentus. Heretofore, only the 1877 version of the Stabat Mater was known and performed, but scholars recently discovered an earlier version from 1876 that differs in two significant ways from the ...
Released in a jewel case by Astrée in 1995 and re-released in a slipcase but otherwise unaltered by Naïve in 2008, this disc coupling three cantatas by Bach has a unique unifying principal: all three cantatas contain movements accompanied by a solo violoncelle piccolo, the smaller, higher pitched cousin of the cello. In Jesu, nun sei gepreiset, ...
The choral and instrumental parts for Gabriel Fauré's original 1893 version of the Requiem, Op. 48, were discovered in 1969, and a score was assembled from them and published in 1994. Since then, this edition has been finding admirers, such as Laurence Equilbey and her hand-picked choir Accentus, who perform the Requiem with members of the ...
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