Spirit, Strength & Sorrow - 다섯개의 스타바트 마테르
연주: 더 식스틴, 해리 크리스토퍼스(지휘) 제네시스 파운데이션과 더 식스틴의 세 번째 콜라보레이션인 이 음반에는 알리사 피르소바(Alissa Firsova), 토누 코르비츠(Tonu Korvits), 매튜 마틴(Matthew Martin)과 더불어 18세기 이탈리아 작곡가인 클라우디오 카시올리니(Claudio Casciolini)와 도메니코 스카를라티(Domenico Scarlatti)의 스타바트 마테르가 수록되어 있다. Gramophone Magazine Editor's Choice - January 2015 The Observer 16th November 2014 **** “Three new responses to the text, commissioned by John Studzinski’s Genesis Foundation, are sung here with faultless clarity by the Sixteen...Each is a significant contribution to the repertoire, sitting proudly alongside more familiar settings from Scarlatti and Casciolini, and all meticulously directed by Harry Christophers.” Financial Times 29th November 2014 **** “All three [new works] are worth hearing and Domenico Scarlatti’s “Stabat Mater” makes a highly enjoyable Baroque companion for them.” Gramophone Magazine January 2015 “All three [new settings] are touching and effective: imaginative in their choral sonorities and colouring of the text, skilfully balancing a strong feeling for tradition with a distinctive individual voice...At moments in their intimate and elegiac performance of the Scarlatti I wanted a dose of Latin theatricality. But in the new works their singing, technically and expressively, is beyond criticism.” BBC Music Magazine February 2015 **** “Of the three contemporary works featured, Matthew Martin's is technically the most ambitious...It's an absorbing, highly accomplished piece of vocal writing, tailor-made to stretch a choir of The Sixteen's ability...For sinuous beauty, though, Domenico Scarlatti's gorgeous ten-part setting takes some beating, deliciously accompanied here by theorbo, harp and organ.”
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