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Special offer. Rachmaninoff: Vespers, Op. 37
Klaudia Zeiner (alto) & Falk Hoffmann (tenor)
MDR Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Risto Joost
Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2017, Editor's Choice
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Diapason d’Or, March 2018, Nouveauté
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...
Special offer. Rachmaninoff: Vespers, Op. 37
Klaudia Zeiner (alto) & Falk Hoffmann (tenor)
MDR Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Risto Joost
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Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2017, Editor's Choice
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Diapason d’Or, March 2018, Nouveauté
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...
About
Sergei Rachmaninoff was a gifted composer not only for his own instrument, the piano, as is abundantly clear in this new GENUIN release featuring Leipzig’s MDR Chorus. The elite choir is already presenting its second recording of Rachmaninoff’s “Great Evening and Morning Praise” to replace their award-winning 2002 version. Choir director Risto Joost himself engaged several Latvian basses for the project, whose exceptionally dark timbre wonderfully enhances the warm and breathtakingly beautiful sound of the choir. A magnificent recording of a magnificent work!
Contents and tracklist
- Klaudia Zeiner (alto), Falk Hoffmann (tenor)
- MDR Rundfunkchor
- Risto Joost
- Recorded: 5-9 December 2016
- Recording Venue: Paul-Gerhardt-Kirche, Leipzig
Awards and reviews
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Gramophone MagazineSeptember 2017Editor's Choice
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Diapason d’OrMarch 2018Nouveauté
November 2017
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 anything less than a beautiful sound…The performance suddenly comes to life with the joyous ‘Praise the name of the Lord’.
September 2017
Joost paces the work very well indeed, understanding that there is a dramatic arc which it is imperative to transmit, so that the work is not merely a sequence of isolated events...the tension never lets up, the line is never lost...[The performance] can join the ranks of the very best available.
