Release Date: 01 November 2010
Label: Hyperion Records Ltd
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 034571178189
Genres: Classical  Choral  
Composer/Series: Time Is Endless
Release Date: 01 November 2010
Label: Hyperion Records Ltd
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 034571178189
Genres: Classical  Choral  
Composer/Series: Time Is Endless
Description
Royal Holloway’s debut Hyperion recording (of the Latvian composer Rihards Dubra) received a rapturous response from the critics. Now they have produced a second volume of Baltic delights, turning this time to Lithuania and the sumptuous music of Vytautas Miskinis, the doyen of current Lithuanian choral culture.
His music, while bearing identifiable Lithuanian roots, is a synthesis of different influences carefully shaped and moulded with an experienced understanding of choral orchestration. Like many other Baltic composers of the same generation, Miskinis takes an essentially diatonic approach but with much overlaying of harmonies and coloured cluster-chords. What makes the music unmistakably Lithuanian is the influence of two folk-song genres. The overall effect is luscious, radiant and exotic. This music is passionately performed by these talented young singers and sensitively recorded in a generous church acoustic.
Tracklisting
Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica
Laurence Perkins
Takacs Quartet, Marc-Andre Hamelin
English National Opera Orchestra / Martyn Brabbins
The Gesualdo Six / Owain Park
Steven Osborne
Stephen Hough, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Sakari Oramo
Steven Isserlis, Philharmonia Orchestra / Paavo Jarvi
The Choir of Merton College, Oxford, Britten Sinfonia, Benjamin Nicholas
Magnificat; Philip Cave
David Hill, The Choir of Durham Cathedral, Joseph Beech, Daniel Cook
Choir of New College Oxford; Robert Quinney
Torsten Mossberg; Jerry Adbo; Stina Hellberg Agback; Ann-Marie Henning; Jonas Isaksson; Isak Josefs
New York Polyphony; LeStrange Viols
Miriam Feuersinger; Natasha Schnur; Alex Potter; Marie Henriette Reinhold; Benedikt Kristjansson; D
ChengCheng Ma; The Choir of the Church of the Advent, Boston; Mark Dwyer