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Into the Light is something of a departure for Harry Christophers and the Sixteen, the British mixed ensemble specializing in vocal music of the Renaissance. In this album they join forces with guitarist Kaori Muraji in a program made up of a variety of risky-sounding arrangements, including an abbreviated choral version of Pachelbel's Canon in D to a text by Oscar Wilde, and a section of Borodin's Polovtsian Dances with guitar accompaniment, in addition to a few unaltered Renaissance works. Perhaps it should not be surprising that a group as distinguished as the Sixteen and a conductor of such impeccable taste as Christophers is able to bring off this kind of daring enterprise with such success. There is no cheesiness in evidence at all, and even the most dubious ventures, such as Villa-Lobos' Bachianas Brasilieras No. 5, originally for voice and eight celli, arranged here for chorus and guitar, are fully persuasive. This is largely due to the skillful and ingenious arrangements of Bob Chilcott, a fine composer in his own right. Credit also must go to the Sixteen and Christophers for their beautifully nuanced and vocally pure performances. Muraji's playing is self-effacing or flamboyantly virtuosic, as the music requires, and she shines in several solos. Among the most effective pieces are the Pachelbel/Wilde Canon, the Villa-Lobos, and a lusty arrangement of Gaspar Fernandez's A negrito de cucurumbé. Decca's sound is clean and ideally balanced. This might be classified as a crossover album, a genre that flirts with the possibility of being unsatisfactory to audiences on either side of the divide it's intended to straddle, but this is the rare album that ought to be pleasing to both.
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Mike Hatch, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Mark Brown, Producer, Editor, Recording Producer - Bob Chilcott, Arranger, Work Arranger - Grace Davidson, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - The Sixteen, Choir, MainArtist - Harry Christophers, Director, MainArtist - Kaori Muraji, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Juan de Anchieta, Composer
℗ 2006 Decca Music Group Limited
Mike Hatch, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Francisco Tarrega, Composer - Mark Brown, Producer, Editor, Recording Producer - Kaori Muraji, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2006 Decca Music Group Limited
Seven Poems by Federíco García Lorca (Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco)
Mike Hatch, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Federico Garcia Lorca, Author - Mark Brown, Producer, Editor, Recording Producer - Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Composer - Eamonn Dougan, Baritone, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Kaori Muraji, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2006 Decca Music Group Limited
Mike Hatch, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Federico Garcia Lorca, Author - Mark Brown, Producer, Editor, Recording Producer - Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Composer - The Sixteen, Choir, MainArtist - Harry Christophers, Director, MainArtist - Kaori Muraji, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2006 Decca Music Group Limited
Mike Hatch, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Federico Garcia Lorca, Author - Mark Brown, Producer, Editor, Recording Producer - Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Composer - The Sixteen, Choir, MainArtist - Harry Christophers, Director, MainArtist - Kaori Muraji, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2006 Decca Music Group Limited
Mike Hatch, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Anonymous, Author - Mark Brown, Producer, Editor, Recording Producer - Tomás Luis de Victoria, Composer - Libby Crabtree, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Kaori Muraji, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Jonathan Arnold, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal) - Adriian Denuss, Arranger, Work Arranger
℗ 2006 Decca Music Group Limited
Mike Hatch, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Anonymous, Author - Mark Brown, Producer, Editor, Recording Producer - Tomás Luis de Victoria, Composer - The Sixteen, Choir, MainArtist - Harry Christophers, Director, MainArtist - Adriian Denuss, Arranger, Work Arranger
℗ 2006 Decca Music Group Limited
Mike Hatch, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Mark Brown, Producer, Editor, Recording Producer - Heitor Villa-Lobos, Composer - Kaori Muraji, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2006 Decca Music Group Limited
Mike Hatch, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Anonymous, Author - Mark Brown, Producer, Editor, Recording Producer - Heitor Villa-Lobos, Composer - Bob Chilcott, Arranger, Work Arranger - Grace Davidson, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - The Sixteen, Choir, MainArtist - Harry Christophers, Director, MainArtist - Kaori Muraji, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2006 Decca Music Group Limited
Mike Hatch, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Mark Brown, Producer, Editor, Recording Producer - Heitor Villa-Lobos, Composer - Kaori Muraji, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2006 Decca Music Group Limited
Mike Hatch, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Anonymous, Author - Mark Brown, Producer, Editor, Recording Producer - Heitor Villa-Lobos, Composer - Bob Chilcott, Arranger, Work Arranger - Grace Davidson, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - The Sixteen, Choir, MainArtist - Harry Christophers, Director, MainArtist - Kaori Muraji, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2006 Decca Music Group Limited
Mike Hatch, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Mark Brown, Producer, Editor, Recording Producer - Heitor Villa-Lobos, Composer - Kaori Muraji, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2006 Decca Music Group Limited
Mike Hatch, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Anonymous, Author - Mark Brown, Producer, Editor, Recording Producer - Tomás Luis de Victoria, Composer - Libby Crabtree, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Kaori Muraji, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Adriian Denuss, Arranger, Work Arranger
℗ 2006 Decca Music Group Limited
Mike Hatch, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Anonymous, Author - Mark Brown, Producer, Editor, Recording Producer - Tomás Luis de Victoria, Composer - The Sixteen, Choir, MainArtist - Harry Christophers, Director, MainArtist - Adriian Denuss, Arranger, Work Arranger
℗ 2006 Decca Music Group Limited
Johann Pachelbel, Composer - Mike Hatch, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Mark Brown, Producer, Editor, Recording Producer - Oscar Wilde, Author - Bob Chilcott, Arranger, Work Arranger - The Sixteen, Choir, MainArtist - Harry Christophers, Director, MainArtist - Kaori Muraji, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2006 Decca Music Group Limited
Mike Hatch, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Anonymous, Author - Thomas Tallis, Composer - Mark Brown, Producer, Editor, Recording Producer - Bob Chilcott, Arranger, Work Arranger - The Sixteen, Choir, MainArtist - Harry Christophers, Director, MainArtist
℗ 2006 Decca Music Group Limited
Catalan Folk Songs (Miguel Llobet)
Mike Hatch, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Miguel Llobet, Composer - Mark Brown, Producer, Editor, Recording Producer - Kaori Muraji, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2006 Decca Music Group Limited
Bachianas brasileiras No. 5 (Heitor Villa-Lobos)
Mike Hatch, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Mark Brown, Producer, Editor, Recording Producer - Heitor Villa-Lobos, Composer - Bob Chilcott, Arranger, Work Arranger - The Sixteen, Choir, MainArtist - Harry Christophers, Director, MainArtist - Kaori Muraji, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2006 Decca Music Group Limited
Frances Bourne, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Mike Hatch, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Mark Brown, Producer, Editor, Recording Producer - Bob Chilcott, Arranger, Work Arranger - Grace Davidson, Shaker, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Eamonn Dougan, Percussion, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - The Sixteen, Choir, MainArtist - Harry Christophers, Director, MainArtist - Libby Crabtree, Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Kaori Muraji, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Ruth Massey, Maracas, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Gaspar Fernandes, Composer
℗ 2006 Decca Music Group Limited
Prince Igor (Alexandre Borodine)
Frances Bourne, Alto, AssociatedPerformer - Mike Hatch, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - William Shakespeare , Author - Mark Brown, Producer, Editor, Recording Producer - Bob Chilcott, Arranger, Work Arranger - Alexander Borodin, Composer - Grace Davidson, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - Eamonn Dougan, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - The Sixteen, Choir, MainArtist - Harry Christophers, Director, MainArtist - Libby Crabtree, Soprano, AssociatedPerformer - Kaori Muraji, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Ruth Massey, Percussion, AssociatedPerformer - Vladimir Vassilievich Stassov, Author
℗ 2006 Decca Music Group Limited
Album review
Into the Light is something of a departure for Harry Christophers and the Sixteen, the British mixed ensemble specializing in vocal music of the Renaissance. In this album they join forces with guitarist Kaori Muraji in a program made up of a variety of risky-sounding arrangements, including an abbreviated choral version of Pachelbel's Canon in D to a text by Oscar Wilde, and a section of Borodin's Polovtsian Dances with guitar accompaniment, in addition to a few unaltered Renaissance works. Perhaps it should not be surprising that a group as distinguished as the Sixteen and a conductor of such impeccable taste as Christophers is able to bring off this kind of daring enterprise with such success. There is no cheesiness in evidence at all, and even the most dubious ventures, such as Villa-Lobos' Bachianas Brasilieras No. 5, originally for voice and eight celli, arranged here for chorus and guitar, are fully persuasive. This is largely due to the skillful and ingenious arrangements of Bob Chilcott, a fine composer in his own right. Credit also must go to the Sixteen and Christophers for their beautifully nuanced and vocally pure performances. Muraji's playing is self-effacing or flamboyantly virtuosic, as the music requires, and she shines in several solos. Among the most effective pieces are the Pachelbel/Wilde Canon, the Villa-Lobos, and a lusty arrangement of Gaspar Fernandez's A negrito de cucurumbé. Decca's sound is clean and ideally balanced. This might be classified as a crossover album, a genre that flirts with the possibility of being unsatisfactory to audiences on either side of the divide it's intended to straddle, but this is the rare album that ought to be pleasing to both.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 20 track(s)
- Total length: 01:06:41
- Main artists: Kaori Muraji The Sixteen Harry Christophers
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Decca Music Group Ltd.
- Genre: Classical
© 2006 Decca Music Group Limited ℗ 2006 Decca Music Group Limited
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