Special offer. Stravinsky: Les Noces
and other choral works
New London Chamber Choir and Ensemble & The Voronezh Chamber Choir, James Wood & Oleg Shepel
As magical a musical experience as this imposing score has ever afforded on record. A fascinating programme, prepared and sung to the highest imaginable standards
Special offer. Stravinsky: Les Noces
and other choral works
New London Chamber Choir and Ensemble & The Voronezh Chamber Choir, James Wood & Oleg Shepel
Purchase product
As magical a musical experience as this imposing score has ever afforded on record. A fascinating programme, prepared and sung to the highest imaginable standards
About
Stravinsky’s popular, extroverted choral work Les Noces—the epitome of his ‘Russian’ style—is placed in context in this marvellous recording where James Wood’s New London Chamber Choir are joined by the Voronezh Chamber Choir who bring an authentic Russian sound to the ensemble. They also perform Russian folksongs and the Slavonic versions of Stravinsky’s Ave Maria, Credo and Pater Noster. Other aspects of Stravinsky’s compositional style are represented by the austere TS Eliot setting The dove descending and the memorial to TS Eliot himself.
Contents and tracklist
- The Voronezh Chamber Choir
- Oleg Shepel
- New London Chamber Ensemble, New London Chamber Choir ; The Voronezh Chamber Choir
- James Wood ; Oleg Shepel
- New London Chamber Choir ; The Voronezh Chamber Choir
- James Wood ; Oleg Shepel
- New London Chamber Ensemble, New London Chamber Choir ; The Voronezh Chamber Choir
- James Wood ; Oleg Shepel
- The Voronezh Chamber Choir
- Oleg Shepel
- The Voronezh Chamber Choir
- Oleg Shepel
- The Voronezh Chamber Choir
- Oleg Shepel
- New London Chamber Choir
- James Wood
- New London Chamber Choir
- James Wood
- New London Chamber Ensemble, New London Chamber Choir
- James Wood
Awards and reviews
As magical a musical experience as this imposing score has ever afforded on record. A fascinating programme, prepared and sung to the highest imaginable standards
12th January 2014
In the most immediate way, this disc provides scholarly context for one of Stravinsky’s most adventurous works...Voronezh forces perform side by side with New London ones here, and they variously account for eight other stylistically diverse Stravinsky items.
