Songs of Experience
Ensemble Perspective, Geoffroy Heurard
their finely balanced, blended voices and precision of tuning mean they sound good in everything from John Tavener’s The Lamb to some 17th-century Italian polyphony by Michelangelo Rossi or...
Songs of Experience
Ensemble Perspective, Geoffroy Heurard
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their finely balanced, blended voices and precision of tuning mean they sound good in everything from John Tavener’s The Lamb to some 17th-century Italian polyphony by Michelangelo Rossi or...
About
Perspectives is anacappella ensemble comprising five singers who explore every kind of music, from the Renaissance to jazz and popular song. Their new album, ‘Songs of Experience’, is a journey through emotions and sentiments. ‘This programme enables contemporary ears to grasp the temporal threads that link Tallis to Tavener, a folksong to a song of today, the better to make their perspectives resonate’, says the group’s founder, Geoffroy Heurard. The ensemble invites us on a musical itinerary that begins in the Renaissance, enters Romantic territory with Schubert, then traverses the golden age of choral music in the Victorian age, and makes a detour by way of Ohana’s Spain before reaching Jacques Brel and a legendary David Bowie song of 1971, Life on Mars, which is a sensation in the exceptionally inspired interpretation of the five members of Perspectives. With Mathilde Bobot soprano, Marie Pouchelon alto, Sean Clayton tenor, Romain Bockler baritone, Geoffroy Heurard bass-baritone, musical director.
Contents and tracklist
- Geoffroy Heurard, Ensemble Perspectives
- Recorded: 3-5 November 2016
- Recording Venue: Ferme de Villefavard en Limousin, Villefavard, France
- Geoffroy Heurard, Ensemble Perspectives
- Recorded: 3-5 November 2016
- Recording Venue: Ferme de Villefavard en Limousin, Villefavard, France
- Geoffroy Heurard, Ensemble Perspectives
- Recorded: 3-5 November 2016
- Recording Venue: Ferme de Villefavard en Limousin, Villefavard, France
- Geoffroy Heurard, Ensemble Perspectives
- Recorded: 3-5 November 2016
- Recording Venue: Ferme de Villefavard en Limousin, Villefavard, France
- Geoffroy Heurard, Ensemble Perspectives
- Recorded: 3-5 November 2016
- Recording Venue: Ferme de Villefavard en Limousin, Villefavard, France
- Geoffroy Heurard, Ensemble Perspectives
- Recorded: 3-5 November 2016
- Recording Venue: Ferme de Villefavard en Limousin, Villefavard, France
- Geoffroy Heurard, Ensemble Perspectives
- Recorded: 3-5 November 2016
- Recording Venue: Ferme de Villefavard en Limousin, Villefavard, France
- Geoffroy Heurard, Ensemble Perspectives
- Recorded: 3-5 November 2016
- Recording Venue: Ferme de Villefavard en Limousin, Villefavard, France
- Geoffroy Heurard, Ensemble Perspectives
- Recorded: 3-5 November 2016
- Recording Venue: Ferme de Villefavard en Limousin, Villefavard, France
- Geoffroy Heurard, Ensemble Perspectives
- Geoffroy Heurard, Ensemble Perspectives
- Geoffroy Heurard, Ensemble Perspectives
- Ensemble Perspectives, Geoffroy Heurard, Etienne Planel
Awards and reviews
19th October 2017
their finely balanced, blended voices and precision of tuning mean they sound good in everything from John Tavener’s The Lamb to some 17th-century Italian polyphony by Michelangelo Rossi or Henri Salvador’s croony Syracuse. Part songs by Elgar and Sullivan should sound staid in this company, but in fact come over particularly well.
