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About this product: This is just an outstanding collection of choral, Christian selections. The majority are composed by Rutter, who it turns out was led into this field for which he is so well known and loved when in school, he was motivated by a fellow student who was composing a Christimas carol to do the same. Thanks be to God for that motivation!
Rutter's work simply in this humble reviewer has no other contemporary peer. He is reverent, fresh and excellent theology to boot! This collection has his best, including my favorites: "Shepherd's Pipe Carol, What Sweeter Music, The very best time of year, Angels' Carol."
To his compositions, added is Kirkpatrick's "Away In a Manger" and of course, Gruber's "Silent Night", both skillfully arranged and performed. Bonus selections of traditional pieces such as "I Wonder as I wonder."
The City of London Sinfonia conducted by Stephen Layton provides the orchestra background marvelously for Polyphany, the outstanding choir on this work.
You will be delighted to add this CD to your collection, and it will rise in most collections to near the top. Well worth
About this product: At the age of only 35, Eric Whitacre has already gained a phenomenal reputation in the United States. The Los Angeles Times described his music as having â€~electric, chilling harmonies; works of unearthly beauty and imagination’ and his Water Night (included on this new recording) has become one of the most popular choral works of the last decade, and is one of the top-selling choral publications of all time.
About this product: With Sendak's dark and lovely sets, and a strong emphasis on the storyline, the Pacific Northwest Ballet has given us the finest Nutcracker ever staged. Stowell's direction and choreography bring, what can often become a series of almost disconnected scenes, into a cohesive tale with beautiful imagery and wonderful acting. When will it ever be released on DVD?
About this product: Angela Hewitt in her bid to out do Glenn Gould must be commanded for her bold undertaking even if one wonders about the motives. Playing Bach live is a very courageous endeavor.
In this well filmed but quite long DVD, Angela Hewitt is kindly condescending to teach us, common mortals, about Bach but mostly to make us understand why we would not be able to reach her pinnacle: at the top of the Bach mountain, there is only room for one and even Glenn would have to concede... Not once, he is mentioned! Considering that Bach's playing in the XX century truly exploded with him, it is somewhat surprising in my opinion. Not that Gould's playing should not be exempt of criticism, but his contribution to Bach music is invaluable, like it or not.
Of course the basics, the backgrounder about Baroque music style and Bach in particular is presented and this is good: the various editions, the ornementation, the parallel with string players, the differences between Harpsichord and modern piano -she really hates these harpsichordists doesn't she?-. All this is fine.
But after 148 minutes filmed in the Fazioli factory, the equivalent of a surgery block clean manufacturing grounds compared to the Steinway digs for instance, one really wonders what they'll take home and work on.
Did we learn about how to play Bach, the rules of articulations or did we learn about Ms. Hewitt own cooking and given her tone, how unlikely we would come close to having the imagination, taste, talent she possesses in order to approach this music.
She mentions Ottawa Canada, but one feels she is now safely back from the "colony" to the civilized motherland...
The problem is that Ms. Hewitt is unaware of some recent developments that have exposed rules of small speech like articulation and their reasons, their relations with the symbolism of Bach music (Teregulov 1993, Nosina 1991, 1993 re-issued in 2006).
Therefore she presents her own interpretation of rules -my father did this...- and often goes against the grain. For instance she explains that Bach's markings are supposed to be taken as rules in a piece when they appear at one spot while in fact, his markings were signaling a particular character, even an exception to the known rules, those very rules known to Kappellmeisters and thus never written on keyboard scores but clearly indicated on orchestral scores or string scores. Dear Daniel Muller-Shott is obliging with an overdone Baroque sound inflating and deflating and his eyes betray the devotion to the great priestess of the cult...
So as a result Ms Hewitt often brushes over rules and talks more about her own figuring out what works for her than truly offering students regardless of their level, real, workable rules that universally enhance the polyphony in their playing.
Thus in her bid to become the Bach interpreter of our troubled time, Ms. Hewitt indeed in this DVD reveals herself to non musicians something her playing anyway does to musicians who know the rules.
It is well filmed although sometimes the reflection of the scripter can be seen on the gleaming Fazioli.
A curiosity but one to consume with moderation...
About this product: Marc-Andre Hamelin is undoubtedly the greatest living exponent of the music of the "composer-pianists", and sets the bar unbelievably high when he chooses to play standard repertoire. I have been greedily snapping up his CDs for years, and jumped at the opportunity to own a DVD containing interviews and conversation. It is almost unnecessary to review this DVD for content, since its subject is an artist who is making history in our own time. Proud owners of Hofmann, Rachmaninoff, and Lhevinne recordings will jump at this opportunity, and all pianists should expose themselves to playing on this level, which is nearly unbelievable in its command, accuracy, endurance and clarity. Hamelin's dedication to the composers of pianistic music will force their entry into a part of the repertoire that will eventually be heard by a larger public than at present. Get this DVD! Marc-Andre Hamelin is making history.
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