Seattle-based composer Andrew T. Miller's cantata The Birth of Christ received its premiere in Dublin in 2006. Its performance was hailed as a landmark event because it brought together Catholic and Protestant choirs. It would be good to report that its musical quality was as significant as its humanitarian achievement, but as a whole, the music ...
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 ...
Recordings of Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in D minor number in the hundreds, and there's little reason to get excited about yet another, unless it's a rendition by Franz Welser-Möst, a dynamic Austrian conductor who can be relied on to do something interesting with this masterpiece. Sure enough, this live version with the Cleveland ...
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