- Audio CD (April 28 1998)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Import
- Label: Universal Music Group
- ASIN: B0000064U9
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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Track Listings
| 1. O Thou Who Art Unchangeable |
| 2. Lord Jesus Christ, Who Suffered All Life Long |
| 3. Father In Heaven, Well We Know That It Is Thou |
| 4. Father In Heaven! Hold Not Our Sins Up Against Us |
| 5. Part I - Nathan Gunn |
| 6. Part II - Nathan Gunn |
| 7. Part III - Nathan Gunn |
| 8. I. Agnus Dei |
| 9. II. Beat! Beat! Drums! |
| 10. III. Reconciliation |
| 11. IV. Dirge For Two Veterans |
| 12. V. The Angel Of Death |
| 13. VI. O Man Greatly Beloved |
Product Description
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It's unclear why this program works so well, but it does. It may be because all three composers resolutely affirmed the virtues of tonality at a time when it was terribly out of fashion, though each did it in his own way. Barber was a genuine neo-Romantic before we had the term to describe him, so his heartfelt and emotional music was simply called "backward looking" while he was alive. Vaughan Williams and Bartók were both authorities on folk song who used the "uncouth vocal utterance of the people" to forge fresh and contemporary musical styles. Robert Shaw, one of the great choral music conductors of all time, plays all three works with a near ideal combination of clarity and intensity, and, of course, the chorus is sensational. --David Hurwitz
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Terrible Recording of the Barber,
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This review is from: Choral Wks (Audio CD)
I will disagree with the other reviewers here. The Barber is a wonderful piece, dreadfully and lifelessly performed here. The chorus has no emotion. The recording is unfocused...the strings sound absolutely amateurish throughout. Schenck's work on Koch is much superior, even though rough at the edges; it bristles with electricity, and the soprano is just perfect for the second section.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Bartók and Vaughan Williams So Good, Forgive Even Barber,
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This review is from: Choral Wks (Audio CD)
Shaw does brilliant work with these three pieces, and luckily two of them merit the loving attention.Bartók brought brilliance and heart to every genre he turned his compositional hand to, and this Cantata is no exception. He infused such intense drama into such "abstract" works as the six quartets, the three piano concerti, the Concerto for Orchestra and the Music for Strings, Percussion & Celesta - that his keen sense of staging in his ballets, opera, and this robust cantata, is scarcely a surprise. This piece is magical and gripping; this performance has the additional benefit (for those of us who cannot speak Magyar) of being rendered in a fine English translation. I should write more about the Vaughan Williams Dona Nobis Pacem beyond saying that I love the piece, and that Vaughan Williams is the 20th century's great gift to the choral-&-orchestral repertory. But for the moment, I will content myself with saying only that. The Barber is all too characteristic: more or less agreeable, but dull. This occupies little enough space on such a richly endowed disc, that my enthusiasm for the disc is undiminished.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Evocation of the Spirit (2),
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This review is from: Choral Wks (Audio CD)
Following the wonderful Evocation of the Spirit CD (Gorecki, Part, Martin, Barber and Shoenberg) this is an ideal follow up. The twentieth century really did produce some wonderful choral music and although the Barber and Bartok here are not totally consistent, the Vaughan-Williams is great.
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