曲目リスト

1. Agnus Dei, op.11
2. Cantique de Jean Racine, op.11
3. Kyrie
4. Ave Verum Corpus K 618
5. Jesus bleibet meine Freude
6. Ave Maria, op.37 No.6
7. Lux Aeterna
8. Totus Tuus
9. Hear my prayer
10. The Lamb
11. In paradisum
12. Miserere mei, Deus

商品の詳細

• Amazon.co.jp ランキング: #78539 / ミュージック
• 発売日: 1996-08-29
• ディスク枚数: 1
• 形式: Import, from US
• 寸法: .28 ポンド
• 実行時間: 73 分

From Amazon.co.uk
This album of choral classics, recorded in the beautiful acoustics of New College Chapel, Oxford, has been given the subtitle "World of Inner Harmony". If one were to be cynical, it suggests a stream of crystals'n'kaftans mood music. The surprise, however, is that though conductor Edward Higginbottom has created an unruffled surface of reflection and calm, he and his choir have also crafted a musically satisfying disc. Much of the variety is to be found in the significantly different styles on offer, from the slow build of Barber's Agnus Dei, through the restrained Gallic beauty of Fauré's Cantique de Jean Racine, to the spare spirituality of Górecki's Totus Tuus. There is also a sophisticated approach to the different acoustics needed for each piece. Fauré's In Paradisum is handled with much more intimacy than, for example, the Kyrie of Palestrina's Missa Papae Marcelli, which is recorded at a far greater distance. The most risky item on the disc is John Cameron's arrangement of Elgar's "Nimrod" for eight-part choir, using the words of the Lux Aeterna: it teeters between kitsch and real power. In the end, as with most of the pieces here, the choir's extraordinary performance renders it hugely enjoyable. --Warwick Thompson