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2024-04-02 08:32:00
Like no other: Rachmaninoff's Vespers in a remarkable new recording arranged for men's voices
Sergei Rachmaninoff: All-Night Vigil, Op. 37 (Vespers), arranged, Benedict Sheehan, Dmitri Lazarev, Alexander Gretchaninoff; PaTRAM Institute Male Choir, conductor Ekaterina Antonenko; CHANDOSReviewed 1 April 2024A new version of Rachmaninoff Vespers for men's voices preserves the work's luminous textures and adds a wonderful warm glow and rich textures, plus some spectacular voicesRachmaninoff wrote his All-Night Vigil (Vespers) for an all-male choir (men and boys) in 1915, though the work's history since then has largely been amongst mixed-voice choirs. But various attempts have been made to adapt the material to men-only choirs. Inspired by one of composer Alexander Gretchaninoff's arrangements of a movement for men-only, the PaTRAM Institute (Patriarch Tikhon Russian-American Music Institute) assembled a crack men-only choir, the PaTRAM Institute Male Choir, under conductor Ekaterina Antonenko to record a new version of Rachmaninoff's All-Night Vigil for men's voices, with soloists Igor Morozov, Evgeny Kachurovsky and Alexis V. Lukianov (co-founder of the PaTRAM […]
2022-06-25 04:08:00
Classical Music News of the Week, June 25, 2022
[…] Sunday, September 18, 2022 at 4:00pm is a performance of J.S. Bach’s beloved devotional motets. Held at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church (3 West 65th Street, NYC), the ensemble will perform one voice on a part with strings and winds doubling the voices. The program will be led from the chamber organ by Jeffrey Grossman and features ensemble members sopranos Jolle Greenleaf and Molly Quinn, countertenors Clifton Massey and Timothy Parsons, tenors James Reese and Aaron Sheehan, basses Charles Wesley Evans and Jonathan Woody, violinists Nicholas di Eugenio and Beth Wenstrom, violist Jessica Troy, cellist Ana Kim, oboists David Dickey, Priscilla Herreid, and Margaret Owens, and bassoonist Stephanie Corwin. The performance will be filmed and available to view as a virtual concert from September 22, 2022 to December 22, 2022.For a complete schedule of TENET’s concerts and events, visit https://tenet.nyc/--Katlyn Morahan, Morahan Arts and MediaMiller Theatre Announces a Full, Premiere-Filled 2022-23 […]
2022-05-03 15:44:12
APRA AMCOS, the Australasian body that grants and manages license fees across the music industry, has recently announced the eleven recipients of its Art Music Fund grants. They are Cat Hope, Corrina Bonshek, Hamed Sadeghi, Kate Milligan, Linda Kouvaras, Maree Sheehan, Paul Clift, Riki Neihana Gooch, Robert Curgenven, Ross McHenry, and Wally Gunn. Collectively, […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
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