This is one of those best-of-all-possible worlds releases, with the nearly 80-year-old Swedish choral conductor Eric Ericson (he split the Polar Music Prize with Bruce Springsteen a few years back) leading the gorgeous young French chamber choir Accentus. At times it's almost too perfect -- something like going out on a date with someone too beautiful to be real, and having the nagging feeling that in being so seduced you are missing something. Is Ericson uncovering hitherto unsuspected connections among these composers, or ...
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This is one of those best-of-all-possible worlds releases, with the nearly 80-year-old Swedish choral conductor Eric Ericson (he split the Polar Music Prize with Bruce Springsteen a few years back) leading the gorgeous young French chamber choir Accentus. At times it's almost too perfect -- something like going out on a date with someone too beautiful to be real, and having the nagging feeling that in being so seduced you are missing something. Is Ericson uncovering hitherto unsuspected connections among these composers, or is he obscuring the differences between the Swedes and the always more iconoclastic Finns? It's not good to quibble too much in the face of seduction like this, however. This is a cappella choral singing at its best, sumptuous yet perfectly controlled, and equally elegant in little folklike pieces from the nineteenth century and in modern works with tone clusters and other extended techniques. The program is intriguing, combining a few familiar works (like Sibelius' Rakastava) with...
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Add this copy of North to cart. $3.00, good condition, Sold by Bookmans rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Tucson, AZ, UNITED STATES, published 2006 by Alliance.
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