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Britten: Canticles I-V; The Heart of the Matter
(2004)
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performed by
Derek Lee Ragin (counter tenor), Frank Lloyd (horn), Gerald Finley (baritone), Jean Rigby (contralto), Judi Dench, Osian Ellis (harp), Philip Langridge (tenor), Steuart Bedford (piano)
composed by
Benjamin Britten
At their best, Benjamin Britten's Canticles are hypnotic works that walk a fine line between piety and theater. If they sound studied, they lose their connection to gut emotion, and if they go over the top expressively, Britten's finely woven tapestries of sound give way to chaos. Few recordings have managed to straddle that line as well as this ...
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