David Lang's Love Fail is a work for small choir that may be performed either with staging or as a concert piece. The texts describe, as promised, a failed love affair, using texts drawn from the legend of Tristan and Isolde, and from modern poetry. The work was written in 2012 for the vocal group Anonymous 4 and amplified slightly for women's chorus in 2015; in the latter form, it was premiered by the Lorelei Ensemble, which has recorded it here. Thus the group has had some time with the piece, and it shows. The work consists of stark harmonies and unisons, and the group not only executes these but controls the texture so that the vertical sonorities take on lives of their own. Sample the haunting "Three years to the day…" that opens the second section. The successful eight-voice choir is the black belt of choral singing. When it is done right, it opens up a range of expressive possibilities that can be chilling. Here it is done superbly.
Whitesnake brings together some of the most-passionate music of its multi-platinum career on 'Love Songs', a collection that contains remixed and remastered versions of the group's best love songs. It's the second release in the band's 'Red, White and Blues Trilogy,' a series of compilations organised by musical themes. The new collection includes a mix of hits and deep tracks that were originally released between 1987 and 2011 on five Whitesnake studio albums and David Coverdale’s third solo album, Into the Light.
Chie Ayado, the Japanese Jazz Giant with that fabulous expressive dynamic voice sings standards of jazz and pop from the fantastic version of Work Song to Leaving on a Jet Plane. How can there reside such a great voice in such a tiny body? As always her interpretations are extraordinary and thrilling although accompanied mostly just by her own piano…
Nuria Rials Aufnahmen für dhm werden in aller Welt hochgelobt. Ihr Album »Muera Cupido« mit dem Ensemble Accademia del Piacere wurde gerade für den Opus Klassik nominiert. Für ihr neues Album hat die Sopranistin zusammen mit dem spanischen Tenor Juan Sancho Arien und Duetten aus G. F. Händels Opern, Oratorien und Kantaten ausgewählt, die die menschliche und göttliche Liebe besingen. Die begleitende Capella Cracoviensis rundet unter der Leitung von Jan Tomasz Adamus das Album mit Tanzsätzen und Ouvertüren ab. In der Barockoper war es üblich, dass die Duette von Sopranistinnen und Kastraten gesungen wurden.