CD, Rorem (composer)
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Ned Rorem: Choral Works
Daisy Walford, Toby Hughes, St Martin's Voices, Piatti Quartet, Andrew Earis
it’s an area of Rorem’s output that is more than worth your time. St Martin’s Voices (and the Piatti Quartet in three pieces) more than do j justice to this music, imbued as it is with no small... —
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It's when the pedal goes down (literally and metaphorically) that this disc really soars, startling the ear into ecstasy with the sudden release of Rachmaninov's Cherubic Hymn, the 'bright Seraphim'... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2019, Editor's Choice
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Carole Bogard has a fine, high, slender voice and an evident intelligence that imbues her singing with a finely poised alloy of intellect and passion - neither precious nor blowsy...This present... —
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2 CDs
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Grammy Awards, 31st Awards (1988), Best Orchestral Performance
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Ned Rorem - On an echoing road
Duets, Trios and Quartets from Evidence of things not seen interspersed with songs
Anna Leese (soprano), Jennifer Johnston (mezzo), Andrew Staples (tenor), Jacques Imbrailo (baritone), Tim Mead (countertenor) & Alisdair Hogarth (piano / director)
Prince Consort
All five singers have clearly grasped the importance of Rorem's text-based conception of song, 'poetry as expressed through the voice' and they sing - albeit in resolutely English English which... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2010, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Ned Rorem
Simon Mulligan (piano) & Wen-Sinn Yang (cello)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, José Serebrier
Simon Mulligan is an outstanding piano soloist, combining precision with a beautiful pearly sound in the upper register. The cellist Weng-Sinn Yang isn't always as tight rhythmically, but makes... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2007, Editor's Choice
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Few voices of this kind scale down effectively in song recital, but Bullock has a spectrum of vocal colours which she puts at intelligent service of the text - and in Malcolm Martineau she has... —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2007, Choral & Song Choice
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American Voices
American Choral Music
Meg Bragle (mezzo), Frederick Teardo (organ), Anna Reinersman (harp), Maya Gunji (percussion)
Saint Thomas Choir of Men & Boys, Fifth Avenue, New York, John Scott
Scott’s mastery of his vocal forces is exemplary and the choir’s distinctive sound has been well captured in the excellent remastering of the original recording. —
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