Eternal heaven
Georg Friedrich Händel
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Reviews (11)
Presto classical
d. 31. Mar. 2019
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Katherine Cooper
d. 31. Mar. 2019
"Editor's choices - March 2019: The spacious acoustic of Gent's Sint-Machariuskerk provides an appropriately contemplative atmosphere for this account of Liszt's meditations on the Stations of the Cross, written towards the end of the composer's life but only premiered in 1929; the crystal-clear upper voices blend ideally in the Stabat Mater, and in De Leeuw's hands the piano interludes seem to foreshadow Messiaen's Vingt regards".
MusicWeb international
2019 April
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Richard Hanlon
2019 April
"This is spare, ascetic music, hewn from a mysterious alchemy of complexity and purity ... The probing, indefatigable pianist, conductor and composer Reinbert de Leeuw has made a career out of a close embrace with the ascetic. His two most recent collaborations with Barbara Hannigan were each greatly lauded ... He really does know this piece inside out and in this new reading he proves to be the most illuminating of guides. Initially Via Crucis may seem cool, even astringent, but greater familiarity enables the responsive listener to appreciate a searching, intense vision. It is compellingly realised here by de Leeuw in league with the sixteen voices of Philippe Herreweghe's regular collaborators, Collegium Vocale Gent".
Fono Forum
2019 Juni
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Thomas Otto
2019 Juni
"Was für ein karges, sperriges, zugleich innigliches Werk! Franz Liszts letztes grosses Kirchenmusikwerk ist ein starkes Bekenntnis zum christlichen Glauben ... Reinbert de Leeuw ... hat er es jetzt mit dem Collegium Vocale Gent aufgenommen. Das ... Ensemble präsentiert sich bei dieser Aufnahme erneut als ebenso souveräner wie wandlungsfähiger Klangkörper. Auch die drei ergänzende Werke ... heben die Exzellenz des Vokalensembles hervor".
Diapason
2019 avril
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Benoït Fauchet
2019 avril
Fono Forum
2013 Juni
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Marcus Stäbler
2013 Juni
"Innsgesamt die vielleicht stärkste Aufnahme des "Via Crucis", auch wenn der Chorklang mitunter noch eine Spur wärmer sein köntnte".
Diapason
2020 janvier
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Benoît Fauchet
2020 janvier
BBC music magazine
2019 December
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Claire Jackson
2019 December
"Kalle Randalu draws solemnity from the piano solos in Liszt's late work Via Crucis, paired here with four pieces by Pärt; the a capella Solfeggio (1963) and Summa (1977) are highlights".
The gramophone
2019 June
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Marc Rochester
2019 June
"Throughout, de Leeuw maintains an almost transcendental poise as, from the piano, he steers the performance through an often stark and desolate musical landscape. With just 16 voices - four to each part - Collegium Vocale Gent perfectly match the intimacy of de Leeuw's approach".
Diapason
2013 juillet-août
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Benoît Fauchet
2013 juillet-août
"Vurdering: Diapason d'or".
High fidelity (Kbh.)
Årg. 40, nr. 8 (2007)
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Mogens Wenzel Andreasen
Årg. 40, nr. 8 (2007)
The gramophone
2019 Awards
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Ivan Moody (f. 1964)
2019 Awards
"Liszt's musical vocabulary is, of course, very far removed from that of Pärt, and it requires quite a leap to move from The Woman with the Alabaster Box to Via Crucis ... The strangeness notwithstanding, then, this is a disc to be treasured by admirers of Part, Liszt and the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir in any combination".