Brilliant programming is here undone by mediocre performances. Starting with Thomas Tallis' brief a cappella chorus "Why Fum'th in Fight" to lead into Ralph Vaughan Williams' ecstatic string orchestra Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis based on "Why Fum'th" was a brilliant idea. For the first time, listeners could hear the source and the ...
A Flowering Tree was commissioned by an international consortium of musical organizations in honor of the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth. Adams' opera uses a libretto that he and Peter Sellars constructed from ancient south Indian folk sources. The opera's theme, the adversity faced by a couple before they are united and redeemed, is related ...
John Adams: Hallelujah Junction serves as a best-of collection that chronicles the composer's career and points up the breadth and depth of Adams' contribution to American musical life in the late twentieth and early twenty first centuries. It was released to coincide with the publication of Adams' memoir, Hallelujah Junction: Composing an ...
For the novice listener, this CD may not offer the ideal introduction to either work, but the performances of Poulenc's Gloria and Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé with Bernard Haitink and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chorus should interest any fan of the conductor, the orchestra, or the pieces themselves. In this live 2007 recording, Haitink and the ...
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