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Whistle Stopper - Eric Whitacre: Cloudburst and Other Choral Works
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List Price: $20.98
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Manufacturer: Hyperion UK
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0034571175430
Format: Import
Label: Hyperion UK
Manufacturer: Hyperion UK
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Hyperion UK
Release Date: 2006-02-14
Studio: Hyperion UK
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Summary: Encore!
Comment: Truly a masterpiece for choir! I am a choral amateur listener, as I just got into it: this is my first choral cd, but I must tell you that it was worth much more than I payed. A beautiful collection of songs by the very talented Eric Whitacre: his harmonies and suspensions will make you fall in love with the music.
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Summary: Eric Whitacre Cloudburst - a wonderful presentation of his music
Comment: I first heard a Whitacre piece on public radio and had to look him up. His Cloudburst collection is wonderful. Straight tone choral with amazing moving harmonies and dynamics.
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Summary: A must for every fan of choral music
Comment: This is among the most magnificent choral albums I've ever heard. The works include perhaps the single most moving piece of music I've encountered, "When David Heard." Polyphony provides an absolutely impeccable and profoundly moving performance that is powerful and subtly nuanced. I have been a serious choral singer for more than four decades, and I'm simply blown away by the sheer emotional intensity of Stephen Layton's reading of the piece. The other works on the album range from lovely to charming, but it's "When David Heard" that I find myself playing over and over and over again. Brigham Young University's recording of Whitacre's choral works is generally strong, but Polyphony's performance of "David" leaves BYU's in the dust. I just bought three more copies to give to friends.
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Summary: Far Superior to BYU
Comment: From the first note of the first song you can tell that you're in for a different experience than from "Eric Whitacre: The complete works"
Polyphony truly displays its mature tone color and sensitivity to the text while at the same time maintaining phrases that leave any first time-or several time- listener breatheless. The only way to describe this entire album is pure joy. I couldn't believe my ears.
A Must have for any music fan.
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Summary: Great Choral Collection
Comment: Eric Whitacre is a leader in the composition of current chorale and band literature. The performance and recording quality of this album are of the highest quality. While I was more familiar with Whitacre's band works, this provides the original setting for two of his more famous compositions, Sleep and Lux Aurumque. This album is a great addition to any music collection.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Eric Whitacre is one of the leading lights of the choral music scene. The 14 text-centered, emotionally-charged works on this well-filled disc suggest why. Outwardly conservative, his music is full of fascinating harmonic explorations, dynamic shifts, and rhythmic nuances that make them fun to sing and absorbing to listen to. The texts are drawn from poets of the stature of e.e. cummings, Octavio Paz, Garcia Lorca, and Emily Dickinson, among others. And they pack emotional power, as in When David Heard, whose Biblical text is illuminated by powerful tiered dynamics. He's adept at tonal contrasts as well, the soaring sopranos in Sleep have their counterparts in a firm bass line. In Cloudburst he adds piano and percussion to the unaccompanied chorus to dramatic effect, and in some works, such as Cummings' "hope, faith, life, love" he chooses to set only a handful of the poem's text, with harmonic movements and other unexpected twists focusing attention. The fine English chorus, Polyphony, is at their best here, clearly relishing the inventiveness of the music, and the sound is from Hyperion's top drawer. --Dan Davis
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