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Vocal Music (Contemporary) - MCCONVILLE, B. / EPSTEIN, P.A. / MATHEWS, N. / FICKLIN, E. / DEL TREDICI, D. (Rapport)

Composer(s):
Artist(s)
Period(s) Contemporary
Genre Classical Music
Category Vocal
Catalogue NV5827
Label Navona
Quality   320kbps
Album Price
 
MP3
USD 7.99
 

 

   



Modern songs and cycles
Review By JD88992,June 2010

"Rapport" is a collection of chamber works for solo voice and various instruments by Brendan McConville, Paul A. Epstein, Hendrik Hofmeyr, Norman Mathews, Edward Ficklin, and David Del Tredici. The printed booklet includes notes and texts for all the songs save the Del Tredici; when you insert the disc in your computer, there are session photos, more about the composers, and even scores...though terribly small. I'm not taken with soprano Melissa Manseau, who sings about the allegedly gentle rain in McConville's "La Pioggia nel Pineto" as though contending with a Force Eight gale, and also rather oversings Hofmeyr's contemporary version of a chorale cantata (based on a 1551 psalm tune). Happily, other performers are more responsive to the texts, and Melanie Mitrano delivers a virtuoso more....






 

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