Cage - Choral Works | Ondine ODE14022

Cage - Choral Works

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Label: Ondine

Cat No: ODE14022

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 7th October 2022

Contents

Artists

Latvian Radio Choir

Conductor

Sigvards Klava

Works

Cage, John

Five
Four2
Four6
Hymns and Variations

Artists

Latvian Radio Choir

Conductor

Sigvards Klava

About

This new album release by the Latvian Radio Choir and conductor Sigvards Kļava on Ondine is devoted to choral works by the legendary American composer and music pioneer John Cage (1912–1992), one of the most leading figures in 20th-century music.

The Latvian Radio Choir ranks among the top professional chamber choirs in Europe and its refined taste for musical material, fineness of expression and vocal of unbelievably immense compass have charted it as a noted brand on the world map. Sigvards Kļava is one of the most outstanding Latvian conductors, also a professor of conducting and producer, music director of the Latvian Radio Choir since 1992.

Reviews

There are, I think, two possible approaches to this recording. One is simply to listen through it and let the effect of the (very different) pieces on it wash over one, reacting to each in turn. The other is to read the excellent booklet notes by James Pritchett and then listen to the music, following in more or less detail what he explains in them. Either process would work, because the music is intrinsically interesting and frequently very impressive. ... It must be said as well that the singers sound as though they are enjoying themselves enormously.  Ivan Moody
Gramophone September 2022

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