AN AMERICAN COLLECTION

 

Barber: Agnus Dei, Reincarnations, Fine The Hour-Glass

Reich: Clapping Music

Bernstein: Choruses from The Lark

Copland: Four motets, Del Tredici Acrostic Song

 

The Sixteen Harry Christophers

 

Some of the most important and beautiful a cappella works of well-known ’names’ Barber, Bernstein and Copland are here set alongside two quite extraordinary slightly less well known composers. Irving Fine was an exact contemporary of Copland’s and, although born a decade after the great master, he died some years before him. His music is a revelation—always vivid in expression and ever faithful to these extraordinary Ben Johnson poems. Del Tredici’s Acrostic Song is glorious, pure, unadulterated ‘schmaltz’.

 

A dynamic and bold collection Fanfare USA The whole programme is delivered with polish - Gramophone

 

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