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Reviews (6)
MusicWeb international
2019 March
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Leslie Wright
2019 March
"This collection of Britten choral works performed by a German choir under a British director is most welcome. It has been a number of years since such a programme has appeared ... I must say they pass with flying colours, as their diction is excellent with the words clearly understood overall. The choir has a very fine balance of voices with an especially solid bass foundation ... The RIAS Kammerchor superbly characterizes these settings and well demonstrates their vocal abilities ... If the particular programme appeals, then you should not hesitate to add this to your collection".
The observer
d. 10. Feb. 2019
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Nicholas Kenyon
d. 10. Feb. 2019
"St Cecilia is best known as the patron saint of music, but ... no one is complaining if she stimulates visions as wonderful as WH Auden's text, which Benjamin Britten (who was born on St Cecilia's Day) set as his Hymn to St Cecilia in 1942 ... It's the centrepiece of a fine new all-Britten disc from the RIAS Kammerchor under Justin Doyle (Harmonia Mundi): idiomatic readings in a quite resonant acoustic, more secure in its full-voiced choruses than in its solos".
BBC music magazine
2019 April
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Daniel Jaffé
2019 April
"This is very pleasant listening ... The RIAS Chamber Choice sings each well contrasted dance [from Gloriana] to perfection ... Equally good is the choir's account of A.M.D.G. ... These receive vibrant and engaging accounts, the choir's zestful singing, cleanly pithed and euphonious, bringing out the haunting sweetness as well as the mysterious atmosphere of Britten's music".
Fono Forum
2019 Juni
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Bernd Feuchtner
2019 Juni
"CDs des Monats: Die Hymne an Cecilia, die Schutzpatronin der Musik, ist sicher das bekannteste Werk dieser Zusammenstellung von A-cappella-Chorwerken von Benjamin Britten ... Bereits 1942 entstand die Hymn to St. Cecilia, die eigentlich eine Hommage an die britische Chorkunst ist und vom RIAS Kammerchor authentisch präsentiert wird ... Da gibt es keinen uninspirierten Takt - und auf dieser CD kein unaufmerksame Sekunde. Der von Justin Doyle klar und flexibel geleitete RIAS Kammerchor nötigt uns nicht nur Respekt ab vor der Kunst Benjamin Brittens, sondern liefert auch ein ganz grosses Klangvergnügen".
Diapason
2019 mars
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Benoît Fauchet
2019 mars
The gramophone
2019 March
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Arnold Whittall
2019 March
"The Berlin-based RIAS Chamber Choir with their British conductor Justin Doyle ... respond brilliantly to the many challenges of AMDG (Ad majorem Dei gloriam) ... The sonorous weight and burnished tone of the RIAS ensemble (recorded with appropriate spaciousness and clarity of focus in Berlin's Jesus-Christus-Kirche) bring out the dramatic power and lyric intensity of Britten at his most imaginative".