Legendary American chorus master Gregg Smith is getting on in years and, in a way, his calling card in the six decades his eponymous chorus has graced the world's concert stage has been his advocacy of the choral music of Charles Ives. Smith's 1966 CBS album Charles Ives: Music for Chorus and its lesser-known but no less important follow-up New ...
Re-coupled from decade-old recordings originally released on the Music Masters label, this 2006 disc of Stravinsky's sacred choral works led by Robert Craft is in its way as good as it gets for the music. The playing of New York's Orchestra of St. Luke's and London's Philharmonia Orchestra is colorful and strong. The singing of the Simon Joly ...
One of the most difficult areas of Béla Bartók's worklist are his songs, of which there are very many; they are significant, as one aspect of this very modern composer's late romantic heritage was his approach to melody, and this remained a constant as long as he lived. The songs, however, are written in the inaccessible language of Hungarian, and ...
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