Rachmaninov: Vespers, Op. 37

 
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SERGEI RACHMANINOV
Rachmaninov: Vespers, Op. 37
Klaudia Zeiner (alto) & Falk Hoffmann (tenor) / MDR Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Risto Joost

[ Genuin / CD ]

Release Date: Tuesday 21 November 2017

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Sergei Rachmaninoff was a gifted composer not only for his own instrument, the piano, as is abundantly clear in this new GENUIN release featuring Leipzig's MDR Chorus. The elite choir is already presenting its second recording of Rachmaninoff's "Great Evening and Morning Praise" to replace their award-winning 2002 version. Choir director Risto Joost himself engaged several Latvian basses for the project, whose exceptionally dark timbre wonderfully enhances the warm and breathtakingly beautiful sound of the choir. A magnificent recording of a magnificent work!

"This is highly polished singing, as one would expect from a leading professional choir. Leipzig's MDR Radio Choir, under Risto Joost, scrupulously follows Rachmaninov's score and never makes anything less than a beautiful sound…The performance suddenly comes to life with the joyous 'Praise the name of the Lord'." BBC Music

"Joost paces the work very well indeed, understanding that there is a dramatic arc which it is imperative to transmit, so that the work is not merely a sequence of isolated events...the tension never lets up, the line is never lost...[The performance] can join the ranks of the very best available." Gramophone Editor's Choice Sept 2017