Although Roman Kofman and the Kiev Chamber Orchestra have a broad repertoire that they have brilliantly performed around the world, their choice of Benjamin Britten's music for their 2004 debut on MDG may be somewhat surprising. Yet this esteemed Ukrainian ensemble's specialization in great music for string orchestra inevitably must lead to ...
These are truly lovely and profoundly moving performances of three of Britten's most directly appealing orchestral works. For fans of a cooler and austere approach to the English post-modernist's music, Roman Kofman and the Kiev Chamber Orchestra may be too ardently emotional, too lushly colored, and too warmly toned. But for listeners who have ...
Apart from Mendelssohn's Elijah and Paulus, Brahms' German Requiem, and Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, the undisputed champ among nineteenth century oratorios is Franz Liszt's gigantic Christus. Composed in just four years between 1859 and 1863 on an unwieldy libretto by Princess Carolyne von Sayn-Wittgenstein, Christus may have been intended as ...
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