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'A capella singing at its very finest'
Le vaste cycle Jungle Book occupa Grainger pendant rien moins que cinquante-neuf ans ; exactement de 1898 à 1947 ! C'est dire l’intérêt qu'il portait aux textes magnifiques des deux Livres de la Jungle de Kipling. Le compositeur les a conçus soit pour chœurs mixtes a cappella, soit pour solistes et chœurs, avec une orchestration plus fournie, soit encore avec un simple accompagnement orchestral...
When I was going through a conventionally turbulent adolescence in the peaceful New York suburb of White Plains, little did I know that Percy Grainger also lived there. I suspect that the music teachers in my junior and senior high schools - yes, Virginia, there were still music teachers in those days - were equally unaware or surely we might have been exposed to more than just "Country Gardens...
Ten ways to sing 'Hail Mary'
There can be fewer nicer ways to spend Christmas than in the company of Polyphony and Stephen Layton. They take themselves rather less seriously than some choirs I know: can you really imagine a choirmaster such as Peter Phillips or Paul McCreesh turning round to take the solo in White Christmas?
Yet they take their music seriously enough to perform Palestrina every...
Interpretaciones tan refrescantes como escrupulosas
Remarquable! Les Holst Singers se révèlent être de remarquables interprètes de leur cher répertoire national. Cette anthologie atteste du niveau vocal et musical de ce choeur (et donc de leur chef Stephen Layton)