In time : violin concerto & octet
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
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Eric Whitacre
Great Britain
Südwestfunks Vokalensemble (Stuttgart)
America
Südwestfunks Vokalensemble (Stuttgart)
Give me strength : the '74/'75 recordings
Eric Clapton
Confessin' the blues
As dreams
Det Norske Solistkor
The golden Renaissance
William Byrd
Unattended luggage
Nick Mason
Ein deutsches Requiem
Johannes Brahms
2012 January
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John Quinn (musikanmelder)
2012 January
"I've heard and admired several previous CDs by the Elora Festival Singers. This one confirms those favourable impressions. The choir makes a fine, clear sound and their singing falls very pleasingly on the ear. I'd say they are skilled advocates for Whitacre's music ... I think the problem I now have with Whitacre is that his choral pieces all sound rather similar. The music is often extremely beautiful and the composer undoubtedly has a good ear for choral textures - or at least for beautiful, smooth textures, but I'm left wondering how much there is below the surface ... This newcomer offers what I think is a pretty representative and inexpensive introduction to Eric Whitacre's music. As I've already said, the performance standards are high".
2010 October
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2010 October
"A choir long on experience and comfortable in its own collective skin. The mainly vibrato-less singing is warmly blended, with spot-on pitching, and a welcome focus on elucidating text and structure without gimmicky effect-making".
2010 September
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2010 September
"The fresh-sounding Toronto-based Elora Festival Singers obviously love this optimistic and transparently honest music ... Tuning is always spot-on and Nigel Edison draws a wide dynamic range from his singers. Climaxes are never coarse and the church acoustic is used to sublime effect ... This stimulating and superb disc is a bargain and an absolute must-have".
