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Brahms demonstrates his love of Hungarian music in these songs. Underlying all of them is the passionate or melancholic character of the Csárdás, the dance in 2/4 time that first gained popularity in the ballrooms of elegant Hungarian society in the 1830s. The theme that runs through the Mendelssohn songs is the entrancing experience of nature. | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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Mendelssohn once said,“The most natural music of all occurs when four people go out together in the woods or in a boat, and carry the music with them and inside them!” These pieces for chorus, sparkling musical miniatures, are perhaps the finest illustration of this profession of artistic faith. Mendelssohn’s lovely choral music tends to get overshadowed by that of Brahms and by Mendelssohn’s own works in other genres.This disc makes a strong case for a reassessment of the musical merit of his work in this genre. Berlin’s RIAS- Kammerchor has established itself as a world-class ensemble which owes its reputation chiefly to the performance of a cappella works. Led here by their new principal conductor, Hans-Christoph Rademann, the group continues its tradition of heartfelt music-making. “…the effortless quality of the RIAS Kammerchor's sound, transparent, high-soaring, imbues this naïve repertoire with a real sense of joy…” BBC Music Magazine, January 2009 ***** “But how delightful! Here come Herr Mendelssohn and his choir, walking across the fields making directly for our neck of the woods where we are about to enjoy our own déjeuner sur l'herbe. Certainly Mendelssohn liked to take his singers out into the country and particularly to the woods, the 'temple of harmony' as one of his part-songs has it. And if they sang Mendelssohn's pleasant compositions as beautifully as the RIAS choir sing them here, how welcome they would be. Even Wordsworth, listening to the 'still, sad music of humanity', might not have been too put out; for these, on the whole, are Wordsworthian poems, and the settings, however trim and cultivated, are closer to Wordsworth's Nature than to the world of business and 'greetings where no kindness is'.
They are, in fact, kindly works, kindly on the ear and on the voices. Essentially homophonic in their writing for unaccompanied choir, they never leave the individual parts without interest, whether a point of harmony, an imitative phrase or a solo lead. Within the equable sameness of the manner there are many variations and shades of expression. The RIAS Chamber Choir, with their irreproachable homogeneity of tone and flawless intonation, are alive to all the finer points of phrasing and coloration.” Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 “The RIAS Chamber Choir, with their irreproachable homogeneity of tone and flawless intonation, are alive to all the finer points of phrasing and coloration. These part-songs, to be sung "im Freien", or in the open air, make a refreshing programme, and certainly they could not be better performed.” Gramophone Magazine, January 2009 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Mendelssohn - The complete Part-Songs for mixed chorus
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