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Croft, Crowe, Minkowski, Musiciens Du Louvre - Handel: A Song For Saint Cecilia's Day (2011)

Posted By: peotuvave

Date: 5 Mar 2015 16:35:28

Originally released as part of a Purcell-Handel-Haydn ‘trilogy’, this recording of A Song for Saint Cecilia's Day directed by Marc Minkowski, a recognised specialist in the Handel repertoire, is now available separately for the first time. The outstanding soloists also contribute to making this disc a reference.

Composer: Henry Purcell, George Frideric Handel, Franz Joseph Haydn
Performer: David Bates, Nathalie Stutzmann, Richard Croft, Lucy Crowe, …
Conductor: Marc Minkowski
Orchestra/Ensemble: Les Musiciens du Louvre

Reviews: Let's not waste time: get this for soprano Lucy Crowe's voice, for her performance of "What passion cannot Music raise", for her "The soft complaining flute"–and don't forget the glorious "But oh! What art can teach". Okay–just get this for the magnificent Crowe, whose golden, ringing tone and impeccable, uninhibited technique sets Handel's arias ablaze in vibrant, scintillating glory, relegating any recorded competition to second-class status. (Listen to that long-held, stratospheric note in the final chorus, on the words "The trumpet shall be heard on high"–on high, indeed; it seems like Crowe could have sustained it forever!) To sing Handel requires technical ease and comfort, range and unreserved explicatory ability–and in this, and in her complete habitation of the world of Handelian style Lucy Crowe is unsurpassed. Lately it seems that Crowe's presence is ever more common on recordings that prick the ears and spark the question: who is that?

Of course there are many more contributors to this fine recording: tenor Richard Croft is a dynamic and worthy partner to Crowe, and the chorus is simply stunning in its near hyper-energetic renditions of those, well, hyper-energetic choruses, supported in equal measure by the first rate, crisply articulate, unreservedly exuberant orchestra. No question, the spirit of this work is rendered faithfully and reverently by Marc Minkowski and his Grenoble forces. The sound, which has the background-noisy air of a live recording (no indication given) nevertheless hands us the soloists' voices on a shining golden platter–or is it a celestial, harmonious cloud? Never mind: this is Handel at its most wondrous and compelling.

Tracklisting:

1. Overture
2. From Harmony
3. When Nature
4. From Harmony
5. What Passion Cannot Music Raise
6. The Trumpet's Loud Clangor
7. March
8. The Soft Complaining Flute
9. Sharp Violins Proclaim
10. But Oh! What Art Can Teach
11. Orpheus Could Lead
12. But Bright Cecilia
13. As From the Pow'r of Sacred lays

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