Rolling River: American Choral Classical Harmonia Mundi

Rolling River: American Choral

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Rolling River: American Choral

Label Catalogue Number:
905362DI

Release Date: April 2023
Originally recorded in April 2023

Genre:
Classical

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Choral singing enjoys astonishing vitality in the United States of America. Alongside Bernstein’s prodigious Chichester Psalms, Barber’s Two Choruses, and Erb’s much-loved arrangement of Shenandoah, Graham Ross and the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge introduce us to the colourful works of the younger generation of composers on the other side of the Atlantic. A splendid panorama of American choral music from the post-war period to the present day.

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“… style and repertoire are beautifully matched and imaginatively programmed…”

Peter Quantrill – Hi-FiNews.com – 27 July 2023

Performance **** Recording *****

“…Ross and Clare College Choir make a strong case for Bernstein’s stripped-down version of the Chichester Psalms. Organ, harp and percussion provide the accompaniment, and allied with youthful voices, light on vibrato, produce an altogether leaner, more transparent aesthetic impression than the fuller orchestral version…”

Terry Blain – BBC Music magazine – June 2023

“…Light-footed and gilded-bright in the Bernstein, elsewhere the choir are at their best in a sequence that moves from Higdon’s glistening, gauzy O magnum mysterium for choir, flutes, crystal glass and chimes, through Caroline Shaw’s airy psalm-setting and the swallow, with its wordless melodic contrails, to arrive at Eric Whitacre’s rhapsodic Leonardo Dreams of his Flying Machine…”

Alexandra Coghlan – Gramophone magazine – May 2023

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