Arthur Honegger: Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher (2013)

Arthur Honegger's 1935 composition Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher (Joan of Arc at the Stake) is a rather curious work: an oratorio for adult choir, children's choirs, singers, and several speakers, including one portraying Joan herself. It is like a hybrid of oratorio, melodrama, and film music, which was a fundamental influence on Honegger's style during this period, and it is immensely enjoyable if performed by confident and enthusiastic forces. Those forces are a bit difficult to assemble, but competence is not in question here ... Read More

Arthur Honegger's 1935 composition Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher (Joan of Arc at the Stake) is a rather curious work: an oratorio for adult choir, children's choirs, singers, and several speakers, including one portraying Joan herself. It is like a hybrid of oratorio, melodrama, and film music, which was a fundamental influence on Honegger's style during this period, and it is immensely enjoyable if performed by confident and enthusiastic forces. Those forces are a bit difficult to assemble, but competence is not in question here with a pair of excellent regional south German choirs, the Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart and the little-known Knabenchor collegium iuvenum Stuttgart, teaming with the Southwest German Radio Symphony Stuttgart under conductor Helmuth Rilling. This conductor was known earlier in his career mostly for Bach performances but has been recording major monuments of 20th century choral music. At times he has the unduly reserved attitude of the earlier conductors who came out of the early music... Read Less

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