Choral, Vespers, Rachmaninoff (composer)
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Trust Steven Osborne to cast candlelight on the distant voices and supernatural happenings others often miss in Rachmaninov. —
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Record Review, 14th May 2022, Record of the Week
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Presto Editor's Choice, May 2022
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The centrepiece is a stunning performance of Peteris Vasks’s Plainscapes, three wordless linked movements…infused with a strong Pärtian flavour, with important roles for violin and cello, plated... —
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the Rachmaninov of Latvia's outstanding professional choir presents a golden mean between the uniquely open-throated but not always pitch-perfect Glinka Choir of the hallowed St Petersburg tradition,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2013, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2013, Finalist - Choral
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Rachmaninoff: Vespers, Op. 37
Klaudia Zeiner (alto) & Falk Hoffmann (tenor)
MDR Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Risto Joost
This is highly polished singing, as one would expect from a leading professional choir. Leipzig’s MDR Radio Choir, under Risto Joost, scrupulously follows Rachmaninov’s score and never makes... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2017, Editor's Choice
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Diapason d’Or, March 2018, Nouveauté
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One doesn’t often find Thomas Tallis, Edward Elgar and John Tavener sandwiching Massive Attack, but the lovely Teardrop works astonishingly well in this mixed programme devoted to the concept... —
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Rachmaninoff: All-Night Vigil
Arranged for all-male choir by Gretchaninoff, Lazarev and Sheehan
Alexis V. Lukianov, Evgeny Kachurovski, Igor Morozov, Patram Institute Male Choir, Ekaterina Antonenko
There are some jaw-dropping bass sonorities here, but the overall impression is far from sombre: indeed, what is most surprising is the sense of lightness and tenderness that emerges from using... —
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2024, Choral & Song Choice
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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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The authentic voice of Russian liturgical music is a challenge for Brits to emulate; there’s the unique timbre Church Slavonic an indefinable quality of melancholy and a visceral richness which... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 13th January 2014
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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just as Rachmaninov ‘orchestrates’ with his voices, subdividing them into seven and even eight parts, contriving myriad groupings, so Fox ‘plays’ his choir, moulding the 32 singers into a single... —
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Grammy Awards, 66th Awards (2024), Nominee - Best Choral Performance
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the All-Night Vigil appears here a denuded museum artefact, displayed alongside a distantly related musical tradition that ’s presented in a more vibrant and authentic style. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Choral Music
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