MUSIC OF THE PASSION OF CHRIST

Olivier Messiaen’s early organ works helped establish him as a towering figure of 20th-century music. L’Ascension is the most significant of these, with its solemn majesty, dazzling colours and near-static serenity and timelessness. These qualities were already present in Le Banquet céleste, Messiaen’s first published organ work, and in Apparition de l’Église éternelle—a powerful representation of the eternal church emerging and fading from view. The two works discovered posthumously in 1997, Prélude and Offrande au Saint-Sacrement, show the influence of Dupré and Tournemire.

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“This is an intriguing and fascinating piano reduction that receives a very fine performance, revealing aspects of the music that may be lost in full scale performances.’ – The Classical Reviewer

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“The Consortium Carissimi conducted by Garrick Comeaux is able to make us feel this new trend of the early Baroque, with a desirable operation (in world prèmiere recordings) in which we find five motets and two famous orators of Graziani: the interpretation emphasizes the relationship between voices and instruments and synthetically reproduces the suave climate of Rome in 1650.” – Percorsi Musicali

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“Dvořák’s Requiem is quite powerful. And when it’s performed as well as it is here it touches the soul many times and in many ways.” – American Record Guide

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“The chorus is well-captured in this recording… The voices fit very well together. The music is quite engaging and unique enough so that each work has a chance to reveal unique aspects of its composer’s style. The sound is simply superb.” – Cinemusical ★★★★

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“Jandó’s rendering of the work is illuminating—lighter and in some ways maybe more introspective than the bigger-scaled productions. It’s certainly worth a listen.” – Classical Candor

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“Playing and singing are fine…” – American Record Guide

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“The Warsaw Philharmonic Choir sings beautifully throughout… Of the soloists, Christiane Libor and Thomas E. Bauer are excellent singers and the orchestra is also first-class… Wit conducts with considerable insight and interpretative command and the recording quality is equally first-rate.” – American Record Guide

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“A very moving performance of Howells’s reflections on Mary’s sorrow in a work that drew on the composer’s own painful grief upon the loss of his son.” – Gramophone

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‘The performances by the Barcelona Symphony Orchestra, who have known this music since it was written, are superb, and Naxos contributes finely engineered sound.’ – Expedition Audio

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‘An outstanding period performance which can stand comparison with any in the catalogue. The choir itself is fresh and bright, singing incisively, with the crowd choruses vividly adding to the drama, helped by the natural balance.’ – The Penguin Guide

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“Alessandro Marangoni reveals himself as a great artist with musical and poetic sensibility, technical clarity and a total tuning with the composer.” – Musica ★★★★★

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“Upon closer inspection, something strange and wonderful emerges which acts upon both the mind and the heart provoking both and imaginative and an empathic response.” – Fanfare

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“The soloists, the chorus and the orchestra are excellent and deliver a poignant interpretation, under the inspired musical direction of Maestro Inbal.” – Pizzicato ★★★★★

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“Antony Pitts’ Tonus Peregrinus deliver an elegantly agile and eloquent performance of depth and distinction.”
– Gramophone

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“The Warsaw National Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra members sound as if they'd waited all their lives to perform this frightening, devastating music.” – CNN.com

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“A lovely and worthwhile recording it is, in every respect. [The choir] perform here with their usual depth, sensitivity, technical finesse, and bright, clear sound.” – American Record Guide

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“The Hungarian State Opera cadres are eminently more idiomatic and powerful than their German colleagues, with Pier Giorgio Morandi shaping their performance with a broad but restorative hand. Verdi's gorgeous melodic contours and chiaroscuro textures are simultaneously polished and enlivened.” – Opera Quarterly

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“Performances leave nothing to be desired in technical polish or stylistic poise. They employ expressive dynamic contrasts, but not to the point of subjective excess. Admirers of this repertory will not be disappointed.” – American Record Guide

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“There are few vocal ensembles that can work up a concept album like The King’s Singers… The performances have all the panache that we associate with this group.” – BBC Music Magazine ★★★★★

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