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The bells of dawn : Russian sacred and folk songs

Dmitrij Chvorostovskij

Reviews (3)

BBC music magazine

2014 November

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Michael Scott Rohan

2014 November

"Vurdering: BBC music choral song choice" - "This richly beautiful music, little known in the West, suits Hvorostovsky's bass-baritone to a T, its dark creamy texture and plush legato still well preserved, and he delivers the solos with an appropriately un-operatic authority and intensity of feeling. In the choral sections The Grand Choir is as clean-cut and precise as a distinguished choir should be ... Hvorostovsky's fans won't need the recommmendation, but the music itself is also well worth discovering".

International record review

2014 December

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Ivan Moody (f. 1964)

2014 December

"Hvorostovsky has chosen some very familiar favourites from the sacred repertoire ... The choir sounds much more at home in the secular half of the disc, which has some excellent arrangements of folk songs, and Hvorostovsky is in his element ... But the set as a whole is beautifully performed ... The excellent recording was made at the Tchaikovsky Conservatoire in Moscow. Where better?".

The gramophone

2014 November

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Geoffrey Norris

2014 November

"Vurdering: G (Editor's choice)" - "The three songs that Hvorostovsky sings without the chorus are especially telling of his interpretative intensity and sesibility".