Reviews - Music for Voices |
|
|
|
 Elizabeth Maconchy - Music for voices
LNT127
BBC Singers
Lontano
Richard Pearce piano
Odaline de la Martinez conductor
"...The Singers are old hands a Maconchy’s music, and under the versatile Odaline de la Martinez they sing with immaculate pitching, balance and attack...the quiet singing, as in the magical 1965 Nocturnal, is ravishing. Highly recommended. "
PERFORMANCE 4/5
SOUND 4/5
Anthony Burton, BBC Music Magazine, 01 February 2008
"...This magnificent setting is, no doubt about it, a minor masterpiece that definitely deserves wider exposure. I hope that this performance by the BBC Singers will prompt other choirs to take it into their repertoire.
I cannot praise enough the dedication and immaculate singing of the BBC Singers throughout this generously filled release and Odaline de la Martinez for conducting vital readings of these consistently fine, often demanding and certainly rewarding works. This generous and beautifully produced release is a definite must for all admirers of Maconchy’s music, but also for all lovers of finely wrought, compelling and eminently singable choral music. It should not be missed. My Record of the Month, and it will feature high up in my list of recordings of the year."
Hubert Culot, Music Web International
"This is a superb record of some very well-written and far too little-known choral music by a particularly fine British composer…For many people, the experience of coming into contact with this wide-ranging collection of consistently excellent choral music will be little short of revelatory…outstandingly successful, and very strongly recommended."
Robert Matthew-Walker, Musical Opinion March-April 2008
"…The challenges of her vocabulary are meat and drink to the BBC Singers – you can hear them really enjoying themselves when doing things such as exercising the control necessary for the crescendos and abrupt stops to work effectively in ‘Cat!’, the seventh of the Creatures cycle…This an outstanding recording…"
Ivan Moody, International Record Review, March 2008
|
|
|
 |
|
|
Listen to R3
