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Annual Christmas Round-up
[…] are allergic to carols and the dafter musical traditions of Christmas.Geoffrey Webber and the choir of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge take us to France with their Cantique de Noel: French music for Christmas from Berlioz to Debussy on Delphian, which features Christmas music by Adolphe Adam, Hector Berlioz, Charles Gounod, Camille Saint-Saens, Cesar Franck, Claud Debussy, Alexandre Guilmant, Joules Massenet, Fernand de La Tombelle as well as arrangements by Gabriel Faure, Gounod and Leon Roques. The opening of the disc gives a good flavour of the approach, we get that hoary old classic O holy night, but stylishly sung in the original French with the two soloists, Clover Willis and Robert Humphries bringing a nice Romantic fervour to their performance. Whilst there are familiar items such as the shepherds farewell from Berlioz' L'enfance du Christ, it is the lesser known pieces which provide the real interest such as Gounod's […]
2013-10-15 18:23:24
Orpheus and Norfeu Cape (Costa Brava)
As the legend goes, Orpheus, the mythological singer from ancient Greece, was sailing the Western Mediterranean when his boat struck a solitary rock in the middle of the night and foundered. He survived by clinging to the rock all night. At dawn, he realized that he was too far away from the main coast: it was impossible for him to reach it by swimming. He was sad because of his terrible fate, but also amazed by the beauty of the mountains on the coast. Being a sensitive and mythological guy, he took his lyre and began to sing to the mountains. The high, massive, snow covered, distant and wonderful mountains (which happened to be the Pyrenees range) liked so much that divine song that little by little they approached to Orpheus’ rock for better listening to him. When the easternmost tip of the range reached Mr. Orpheus’ rock, the wise […]
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