Rejoice!
Bach Choir Salzburg, Alois Glaßner
The Bachchor Salzburg express the text well with attention to detail, and their performance of Britten’s Rejoice in the Lamb produces some of the best articulated singing I’ve heard. Arvo Pärt’s...
Rejoice!
Bach Choir Salzburg, Alois Glaßner
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The Bachchor Salzburg express the text well with attention to detail, and their performance of Britten’s Rejoice in the Lamb produces some of the best articulated singing I’ve heard. Arvo Pärt’s...
About
The Bach Choir Salzburg gained its international reputation under their long-time conductor Alois Glassner through continuous work with the ensemble sound as well as the great repertoire width, ranging from renaissance works to oratorios, a capella repertoire to opera performances. With the album "Rejoice", featuring Wolfgang Kogert, organ, the Bach Choir presents selected works for choir and organ, last but not least the eponymous Rejoice with the lamb Op. 30 by Benjamin Britten. Further works include For Io, I raise up Op. 145 by Charles Stanford, The Beatitudes by Arvo Part, Beatus vir by James MacMillan, Herbert Howells' Magnificat and Nunc dimittis, O sacrum convivium by Olivier Messiaen and the Psalm 135 by Charles Ives. The great stylistic diversity of one of the leading Austrian vocal ensembles comes into its own with this new release.
Contents and tracklist
- Wolfgang Kogert (organ)
- Salzburger Bachchor
- Alois Glaßner
- Wolfgang Kogert (organ)
- Salzburger Bachchor
- Alois Glaßner
- Wolfgang Kogert (organ)
- Salzburger Bachchor
- Alois Glaßner
- Wolfgang Kogert (organ)
- Salzburger Bachchor
- Alois Glaßner
- Wolfgang Kogert (organ)
- Salzburger Bachchor
- Alois Glaßner
- Wolfgang Kogert (organ)
- Salzburger Bachchor
- Alois Glaßner
- Wolfgang Kogert (organ)
- Salzburger Bachchor
- Alois Glaßner
Awards and reviews
January 2019
The Bachchor Salzburg express the text well with attention to detail, and their performance of Britten’s Rejoice in the Lamb produces some of the best articulated singing I’ve heard. Arvo Pärt’s Beatus vir is not so successful: in order to produce a long crescendo the pianissimo singing practically disappears into nothing (maybe a recording problem), and the basses could be more resonant. Nevertheless it is an interesting anthology.