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the Rachmaninov of Latvia's outstanding professional choir presents a golden mean between the uniquely open-throated but not always pitch-perfect Glinka Choir of the hallowed St Petersburg tradition,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2013, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2013, Finalist - Choral
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Rachmaninoff: Vespers, Op. 37
Klaudia Zeiner (alto) & Falk Hoffmann (tenor)
MDR Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Risto Joost
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... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2017, Editor's Choice
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Diapason d’Or, March 2018, Nouveauté
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Rachmaninoff: All-Night Vigil
Arranged for all-male choir by Gretchaninoff, Lazarev and Sheehan
Alexis V. Lukianov, Evgeny Kachurovski, Igor Morozov, Patram Institute Male Choir, Ekaterina Antonenko
There are some jaw-dropping bass sonorities here, but the overall impression is far from sombre: indeed, what is most surprising is the sense of lightness and tenderness that emerges from using... —
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2024, Choral & Song Choice
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No doubt about it, these are two very fine professional choirs, unique in an unparalleled lower-register smokiness and resonance. The basses can reach the famous bottom notes: the C at the end... —
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Grammy Awards, 58th Awards (2015), Best Choral Performance
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Rachmaninoff: Vespers, Op. 37
Ory Brown mezzo (soprano) & David Vanderwal (tenor)
Saint Thomas Choir of Men & Boys, John Scott
‘Blagoslovi, dushe moya’ [is] daringly slow; Scott knew the capabilities of his singers, however, and it works superbly, with Ory Brown the excellent soloist...It is a magnificent rendition,... —
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2016, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2017, Shortlisted - Choral
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The Chorus’s merits are well known in the concert hall and on other notable LSO Live CDs … but even by their standards this recording of Rachmaninoff’s All Night Vigil is something of a jewel. —
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just as Rachmaninov ‘orchestrates’ with his voices, subdividing them into seven and even eight parts, contriving myriad groupings, so Fox ‘plays’ his choir, moulding the 32 singers into a single... —
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Grammy Awards, 66th Awards (2024), Nominee - Best Choral Performance
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Rachmaninoff: Vespers - All-Night Vigil
The Choir of King's College, London, Joseph Fort, Caitlin Goreing, Chris O'Leary
The choir’s attention to detail is admirable throughout. —
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Rachmaninoff: Vespers, Op. 37
Irina Arkhipova (mezzo-soprano) & Victor Rumyantsev (tenor)
USSR Ministry of Culture Choir, Valeri Polyansky
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Rich and atmospheric, a blissfully unhurried reading —
