Hodie - An English Christmas Collection

The Sixteen & Harry Christophers

Erschienen am 01.01.90 bei Coro
Künstler: The Sixteen Harry Christophers
Genre: Klassik

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The centerpiece of the Sixteen's collection of Christmas music by late Romantic and modern English composers is Britten's Ceremony of Carols. Harry Christophers, founder and conductor of the Sixteen, writes that performances of the piece have become so routine that practices alien to the composer's intent have become enshrined and unthinkingly repeated from performance to performance. Christophers' intent is to look freshly at the score and follow it faithfully and without preconceptions. His performance does, in fact, sound newly imagined, with some surprises in tempos, dynamics, and articulation that make good musical sense. Most noticeable is maintaining the same tempo throughout "This Little Babe," Britten's frighteningly close three-part canon, which when taken at the correct speed can inspire fear in both performers and audience, as well it should. At the end of the piece, in most performances, conductors allow the tempo to go slack, as if in relief at making it through the hard part. Christophers keeps precisely to the original tempo, allowing Britten's longer note values to provide the respite from the torrent preceding it, and it's highly effective. Christophers is a stickler, to good effect, for precision in articulation, giving the work more varied textures than some performances have. He also maintains a refreshingly strict adherence to the proper pronunciation of the Middle English. The ensemble, which includes female sopranos and altos and male altos, sings with such pure, straight tone that the listener is hardly aware that they are not treble voices. For the remainder of the album, the full mixed ensemble sings with rich, warm tone, as is appropriate for the repertoire. The various soloists from the group are polished but natural sounding. Other pieces that stand out are Tavener's astringent "The Lamb," Howells' "A spotless rose" and "Sing lullaby," and John Gardner's vivacious "Tomorrow shall be my dancing day." Coro's sound is clean, natural, and spacious.
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