Berio To Sing
Lucile Richardot, Les Cris de Paris, Geoffroy Jourdain
Awards:
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Vocal
Richardot brings clarity to [the Sequenza's] histrionics, and a welcome grace that extends to the poignant O King (1968, post-assassination of Martin Luther King) and wonderfully contrasting...
Berio To Sing
Lucile Richardot, Les Cris de Paris, Geoffroy Jourdain
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Awards:
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International Classical Music Awards, 2022, Nominated - Vocal
Richardot brings clarity to [the Sequenza's] histrionics, and a welcome grace that extends to the poignant O King (1968, post-assassination of Martin Luther King) and wonderfully contrasting...
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Few twentieth-century creators have been as inventive as Berio in their relationship with popular and ancestral traditions – drawing material as he did from the hits by The Beatles and the soundscapes of urban streets and markets.
Here Geoffroy Jourdain paints the portrait of an explorer with a passion for the human voice. Truculent and volcanic in Sequenza III (performed with panache by French mezzo-soprano Lucile Richardot), lyrical and caressing in E si fussi pisci, solemn and spellbinding in Cries of London.
‘Berio To Sing’ throws open the doors to a colourful universe, extravagantly playful and exhilarating.
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Awards and reviews
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International Classical Music Awards2022Nominated - Vocal
July 2021
Richardot brings clarity to [the Sequenza's] histrionics, and a welcome grace that extends to the poignant O King (1968, post-assassination of Martin Luther King) and wonderfully contrasting cycle of 11 real and invented Folk Songs (1964)...In the latter work especially, and the Beatles song arrangement Michelle II (1965-7), charm and languor entwine with a wit that’s crisply reflected by the ensemble.
Jan/Feb 2022
The performances here are superb, and the recorded sound is just right.
August 2021
It is more madrigalian than that of the Norwegian Soloists’ Choir (BIS, 6/20), more closely recorded and reliant on the idea of every individual voice as an organism of interest, even if the blend is highly satisfactory too.
