Word: choraler
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...Israel prostrate themselves before the Calf, at its harshest when Moses struggles with his hard faith. In the arguments of Moses and Aron, the brasses snarl, the chiseled strings shriek in a web of complicated polyphony. The score is made more difficult by Schoenberg's technique of interlocking choral and solo parts in an almost unintelligible cacophony. The Columbia recording (conducted by Germany's Hans Rosbaud) demonstrates that Composer Schoenberg may have been right when he noted that his opera was 50 years ahead of its time. But it also introduces listeners to a work of raw, flogging...
...performance of a major work by the top musicians at Harvard should provide an exciting evening, and the concert last night fulfilled this expectation. For their centennial and sesquicentennial anniversaries, respectively, the Harvard Glee Club and the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra joined with the Radcliffe Choral Society to present Haydn's oratorio "The Creation...
...Glee Club and Choral Society buttressed the performance with superior singing. Never becoming obtrusive, they supplied spirit and strength, in addition to some beautiful quiet passages. Their preparation by Allan Miller was entirely adequate for an unusually disciplined and musical performance...
Both records are worth anyone's five dollars, and both are a complete success for the Glee Club and the Choral Society. But the HGC-RCS is not heard to best advantage here, as they have been in their Berlioz recordings for Victor. They would do well to remove themselves from the indelicate clutches of Cambridge Records Inc., posthaste...
Gluck: Alceste (Kirsten Flagstad, Raoul Jobin; Geraint Jones Orchestra and Singers conducted by Geraint Jones; London, 4 LPs). This version of the opera, which Composer Christoph Willibald Gluck predicted would "please in 200 years," is distinguished by some stunning choral singing and a sumptuous, apparently effortless performance by Soprano Flagstad, recorded last year when she was 61. Her role: the legendary Greek queen who goes to death in exchange for her husband's life-Apollo has him booked for liquidation-but eventually so moves the god that he revives her. French Canadian Tenor Jobin as the king sings powerfully...