Although this collection intends to transport the soul, it has a tremendously potent low-end depth to it that earns high marks indeed in the worlds of vocal and liturgical music. Dmitri Bortniansky's "Hymn of the Cherubim" is performed with a gracefulness that gets a warming fatness from the production, as does Alexander Gretchaninov's "I Have Chosen the Blissful," which travels with a ringing ...
This album takes the listener on a musical excursion through the history of the famous Regiment-, Division- and Panzerkorps- 'Grossdeutschland', presenting military marches and soldier's songs in a compilation that chronicles this elite German military unit's evolution from the 'Wachtruppe' - the army guard detachment stationed in Berlin during the Weimar Republic - to the mighty combined ...
Vikram Seth's novel An Equal Music is as evocative a portrait of the world of chamber music as you could wish for, but Seth is the first to say that words "can only attempt to describe what cannot truly be described." This two-CD set adds the inevitably missing dimension to a great book, with performances of works featured in the story. They include the world-premiere recording of ...