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NETHERLANDS CHAMBER CHOIR SPANJAARD - FRENCH CHORAL MUSIC CD

NETHERLANDS CHAMBER CHOIR SPANJAARD - FRENCH CHORAL MUSIC CD

$42.99

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Artist:

NETHERLANDS CHAMBER CHOIR / SPANJAARD

Title:

FRENCH CHORAL MUSIC

Genre:

CLASSICAL / CHAMBER MUSIC & RECITALS

SKU:

8711525521506

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4 - 8 Business Days

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SKU/Barcode: 8711525521506

Fans of modern a cappella choral music may enjoy exploring this disc of twentieth century French madrigals and motets, but the casual listener may find it somewhat unsettling. Because Ed Spanjaard and the Netherlands Chamber Choir are fine musicians with sensitivity and technical acumen, the performances are generally smooth, idiomatic, and precise. The ensemble is at its best in placid fare, such as Claude Debussy's delightful Trois chanson de Charles d'Orl ans, Maurice Ravel's amorous Trois chansons, Jean Fran aix's tender Trois Po mes de Paul Val ry, and Olivier Messiaen's mystical O sacrum convivium; their tone is well-blended and rich. However, some experimentation intrudes on the album's serene mood, particularly in Andr Jolivet's puzzling Epithalame, where the singers imitate bell sounds, slide dramatically in portamento, fluttertongue, moan, and chatter in brisk repartee. Jean-Louis Florentz's Asmar , a virtuosic setting of an Ethiopian psalm, is almost as challenging and startling, not for any vocal tricks, but instead for its contrapuntal complexity, sudden declamations, and microtones in its pungent harmonies. These extended techniques and novel sonorities can be disconcerting to the unprepared, yet they are treated as gently as possible, and Spanjaard exercises considerable restraint. On the whole, this is a rather calm, relaxing album; but the Jolivet and Florentz pieces definitely shake things up.
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