The King's Singers, the male vocal sextet, perform with extraordinary vocal blend, purity of tone, technical security, and interpretive sensitivity. This CD brings together choral music from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century that is related to the broad themes of landscape and time. The collection contains texts related to specific ...
Widely admired for his operas and symphonic works, and internationally acclaimed for his numerous film scores, Richard Rodney Bennett has received far less appreciation for his choral music, even though this body of work is quite substantial, highly accessible, and rewarding. These 2004 performances by John Rutter and the splendid Cambridge ...
It is difficult to imagine a better celebration of the immense spiritual and historical richness of Yuletide than this multi-faceted and deeply rewarding disc. Accompanied by Andrew Lawrence-King, who plays the Irish harp, Baroque harp, and psaltery with exquisite grace and refined expressiveness, the crystalline voices of the Anonymous 4 weave an ...
The "Chant" boom of the 1990s revived interest in sacred works, and several contemporary composers of traditionally based choral music also benefited from the phenomenon. Such devoutly religious composers as Henryk Górecki and John Tavener, among others, were accorded special attention for their settings of ecclesiastical texts, and several choral ...
In this compilation of music from previously released Christmas albums, John Rutter writes that his intent is to create a collection that reflects the variety of the Christmas season -- the religious and the secular, the contemplative and the festive -- and is fully successful in gathering selections that are diverse, but fit well together. The ...
It may come as a surprise to some that there is enough English music composed for the combination of flute, oboe, and piano to fill an entire CD, but, as this collection demonstrates, there is and a lot of it is quite good. And while some of the composers here will be unfamiliar except to fans of English music -- Eugene Goossens, Richard Rodney ...
O Magnum Mysterium focuses on a Christmas repertoire that is remarkably unified in the context of the stylistically eclectic twentieth century: it offers a cappella English (and English-language) carols dating from the end of World War I until around 1970. Music by four composers -- Herbert Howells, Richard Rodney Bennett, Kenneth Leighton, and ...
Sir Richard Rodney Bennett's 1965 opera The Mines of Sulphur was commissioned by Sadler's Wells and was very well received at its premiere. It went on to have productions at numerous European opera houses, including La Scala, but quickly faded into obscurity. Performances at Glimmerglass Opera in 2004, in a joint production with the New York City ...
Julian Bream urged several British composers to compose for the guitar, to expand both the repertoire and the instrument's possibilities beyond the styles and conventions of Spanish guitar music. Yet it is odd to note how they turned, almost reflexively, to Spanish music for inspiration, and how many of their pieces retained its most salient ...
The first volume of Richard Rodney Bennett's eclectic piano works may appeal to connoisseurs of musical enigmas, but others may feel a little disoriented by Bennett's quotations and allusions in severely atonal or lushly Romantic contexts. Where, in all this stylistically varied music, is the real Bennett? The composer of such famous film scores ...
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