Nicholas Rimmer - Piano Music - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Trinity Choir of Trinity Church, Boston - Choral Christmas [COMPACT DISCS] date 09/04/2001

Jeremie Rhorer and Le Cercle de l'Harmonie launch a new collaboration with Alpha Classics, with several projects planned, following the Mozart operas released on the tag in 2016 and 2017. Here they tackle a monument of the sacred repertoire that is fascinating for it's rich, complex, even 'mysterious' conception. Rhorer tells us that his interpretation pays close attention to the question of tempi, which have often become progressively slower and heavier since the post-Romantic period the tempi have 'a direct bearing on the vocal comfort of the singers, since breath control is one of the great difficulties of this work', he says. For this recording, he has called in a quartet of top-flight soloists along with the Audi Jugendchorakademie, a remarkable German youth choir founded in 2007. In conjunction with his period-instrument orchestra, soon to celebrate it's twentieth anniversary, they offer a passionate vision of Beethoven's masterpiece.

Cinema classics performed from such box office hits as 2001 Space Odyssey. This work also covers Sprach Zarathustra, op. 30 / R. Strauss - A room with a view. O mio babbino caro (from Gianni Schicchi) / Puccini - Out of Africa. Clarinet concerto in A major, K 622 / Mozart - Amadeus. Allegro, Serenade Eine kleine Nachtmusik / Mozart - Excalibur. Carmina Burana (excerpt) / Orff - Elvira Madigan. Andante-Piano concerto no. 21, K. 467 / Mozart - Diva. E?ben?- Ne andro lontana (from La Wally) / Catalani - The Untouchables. Recitar!- Vesti la giubba (from I Pagliacci) / Leoncavallo - Hannah and her sisters. Sola, perduta, abbandonata (from Manon Lescaut) / Puccini - Death in Venice. Adagietto, Symphony no. 5 / Mahler - Mona Lisa. Vogliatemi bene (love duet from Madama Butterfly) / Puccini - Lara Croft Tomb Raider. Piano concerto no. 5, 2nd movement, BWV 1056 / J.S. Bach - The pianist. Ballade no. 1 in G minor / Chopin - A clockwork orange. Pomp and circumstance march no. 1 / Elgar. All of these symphonic scores that added to the cinematic experience as part of the ambiance, passion and climatic settings are now yours.