Phoenix Chorale
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No doubt about it, these are two very fine professional choirs, unique in an unparalleled lower-register smokiness and resonance. The basses can reach the famous bottom notes: the C at the end... —
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Grammy Awards, 58th Awards (2015), Best Choral Performance
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Jean Belmont Ford's cycle Electa is a real discovery, performed with a naturalness and ease that carries one unerringly through very unfamiliar musical territory. —
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Grammy Awards, 51st Awards (2008), Best Chamber Music Recording
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Sun, Moon, Stars, Rain
Christina Hall (soprano), Sarah Smith (soprano), Lies’l Hill (soprano), Jay Good, Cara Loveless-Faulkner (soprano), JJ Rafferty (tenor), Caleb French (bass-baritone), Phoenix Chorale, Christopher Gabbitas
There’s a nice blend to the choir’s sound, with some characterful solo voices emerging in the longer works by Erika Lloyd and Dale Trumbore. —
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Where has this fabulous choir been all my life? No choral strength you can name eludes them… Chandos’ usual lucid and unaffected notes, full texts and resplendent SACD-hybrid sound conspire... —
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Warmly appeasing choral music...Mainly mellow in tone, though Dark Night of the Soul strikes deeper. —
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This is all very lovely, and, no, that is not a euphemism for boring. The composer lives up to his ideal of music as well crafted, beautiful sound, and the performances conform. —
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Landmarks: 40 Years of Chandos
Dmitri Shostakovich Jr. (piano), James Thompson (trumpet), Stephen Hough (piano), Lynne Dawson (soprano), Ian Partridge (tenor), Michael George (bass), Lydia Mordkovitch (violin), Christopher Plummer (narrator), Celia Nicklin (oboe), Ian Watson (organ), Nigel Kennedy (violin), Peter Pettinger (piano),...
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40 CDs
$73.75
