Verdi's Four Sacred Pieces are both a testament to the composer's religious faith and a sublime summation of his musical career. Initially performed separately, in accordance with Verdi's wishes, these choral masterworks are now most often regarded as a set, in recognition that they represent his last outpouring of genius. The Ave Maria is ...
While this is not the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus' first disc since new music director Norman Mackenzie took up his post -- recordings of Berlioz's Requiem and Vaughan Williams' "A Sea Symphony" preceded it -- it is their first acapella disc under his direction. It is in every way a lovely disc but it is in no way an outstanding disc. With ...
Ralph Vaughan Williams confidently asserted that there was no reason an atheist couldn't write a good mass, and he backed up his words with the Mass in G minor, dedicated to Gustav Holst and first performed in 1923. The work stands at the center of this disc, the first recording by the famed Atlanta Symphony Chorus without the backing of the ...
This 2005 compilation draws on ten previous Telarc albums by Robert Shaw, the Robert Shaw Festival Singers, and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, and highlights a cappella performances from the esteemed conductor's last decade. Since the program is largely sacred in nature, the album's tone is reverent and placid, with little contrast. Dieu ...
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