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CD Les Noces, Mass, Cantata (RIAS Kammerchor)
The shelves are not overflowing these days with recordings of Stravinsky's les Noces.
Aside from the re-release of the Karel Ancerl recording on Supraphon and one by Peter
Eötvös for Hungaraton, it was a desert until the arrival of this superb SACD by the RIAS
Kammerchor, which also features the Mass and Cantata. (...) Choir and soloists outdoing themselves
in rigour and stylistic precision to find the 'archaic' Russian timbre of the score, then matching
each other with the weightless homophony of the 1948 Mass, with a transparency that is brought out by
the exemplary recording, even in traditional stereo.
(...) the Cantata from 1952 burns with the superb timbres of tenor Jan Bokow and soprano Carolyn Sampson, making
this recording the modern reference.
Liberation, June 2006
As for his attractive setting of the Mass,
for chorus and wind ensemble, it simply has never been better played and sung than it
is here. While acknowledging the music’s obvious restraint and austerity, Reuss has the
RIAS Kammerchor singing with amazing virtuosity. The group’s accuracy of intonation, ensemble
balance, and rhythmic precision is little short of miraculous, and it gives the performance a lightness
and flow (check out the Gloria) that you will rarely encounter in this piece. Instead of sounding like an
act of penance, the music has that cool, luminous,
Palestrina-like beauty that Stravinsky no doubt intended but probably never heard in his
own lifetime.
Classicstoday, David Hurwitz, 10 may 2006
Empfehlung des Monats
Fono Forum, September 2006
Dirigent Daniel Reuss stellt einmal mehr unter Beweis, dass er nicht nur ein sehr guter Chor-Erzieher, sondern auch ein vielseitiger, erzmusikalischer Interpret von höchstem Rang ist.
Benjamin Cohrs, Klassiek Heute, 2006br>
This new recording gives us the modern reference of Les Noces that we've justifiably been waiting for. (...)
Daniel Reuss (served thus by perfect singers and keen instrumentalists) takes a nearly savage approach to Les Noces
and a veritable joy in the overlapping of minute shifts in the music. (...)
(...) a worthy replacement for the Ancerl version, which no one has matched until now.
(...) one of the year's great discs.
Christophe Huss, Classics Today
Following Marcus Creed, the German-born Dutch conductor will have reinforced the adaptability and fascinating plasticity
that make this choir an instrument often unrivalled in its joyful eclecticism in music ranging from the Baroque to
contemporary. In this regard, this disc is an extra milestone for an ensemble which can always extend its playing
field a bit more without the fear of being either stylistically totally inappropriate or merely approximate..[RIAS]
allying the dramatic inspiration with an engagement and precision (at the level of nuance and rhythms) that calls for
superlatives.(...)
Of course, the plainly timeless jewels that are the Mass and Cantata would seem even more the business of the chamber
choir from Berlin. The hallucinogenic colours of their singing, their reflective virtues, work wonders on these pieces.
A cappella, the group shows off its homogeneity (the Agnus of the Mass), and even passages of total abandon
(Cantata verses) do not alter its horizontal stability.
Diapason, June 2006
This new one by Daniel Reuss is one of the very best.
In a fully realised performance, and Daniel Reuss and his forces have given us one here,
it has a visceral impact on listeners, it possesses them.
(…) top recommendation for this masterpiece. (…) Urgently recommended to anyone interested in Stravinsky.
Ung-Aang Talay, Bangkok Post, 2006
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"(....) Les Noces wordt slechts zelden uitgevoerd; goed dat
het nu op cd staat, samen met topuitvoeringen van Messe (1948) en
Cantate (1952) door het Rias Kammerchor en MusikFabrik onder leiding
van Daniel Reuss. Les Noces laat een zeer Russische boerenbruiloft horen
met schrille, volkse stemmen. Er is veel 'oer', aansprekend voor liefhebbers
van Orffs Carmina Burana. Maar men hoort hier en vooral ook in Messe en Cantate
al veel van Stravinksy's mooiste latere werk: Oedipus Rex en de Psalmensymfonie."
Kasper Jansen, NRC Handelsblad, 29.04.06
(...) Met z'n combinaties van lieflijke expressie en strenge canontechniek lijkt
de magnifieke Cantata haar grootheid maar met tegenzin te willen openbaren. En dan alleen als er een groep aan het werk is met verstand van zowel 17de-eeuwse als Anton
Webernachtige muzikale intimiteit.
Reuss huldigt er een kalmte bij die weldadig aandoet.
Roland de Beer, Volkskrant, 11.05.06
Van de solisten waren de dames Engels en de heren Russisch, maar dit gemengde huwelijk kent
geen grenzen. Er wordt op het scherp
van de snede gemusiceerd en gezongen, en de opname klinkt letterlijk als een klok – denk maar
aan de slotakkoorden. Bovendien maakt het geheel nog een authentiek Russische indruk ook.
Siebe Riedstra, www.opusklassiek.nl, januari 2011
Let's say this first off, this disc is a veritable wonder of coherence, direction, rhythmic élan, beauty, warmth
and intelligence. Daniel Reuss conducts his little world along a perfectly marked route where everything seems
the fruit of an absolute mastery. The vocal balance, the choir's depth and the beauty of its harmonies, the passion
of the soloists. Everything is in place and the miracle is produced in each work ...incontrovertibly a discovery...A magical Super Audio CD!
Opus Haute Definition
Of the six or so recordings of Stravinsky's Les Noces currently available, this new release is probably the
most aesthetic, most harmonious and most perfected.
Luister Magazine, June 2006
Ce superbe album s'impose désormais comme une référence absolue, indispendable à toute discothèque.
Pierre-Jean Tribot, Resmusica, 2006
Mit dieser Aufnahme, [...] setzt
Daniel Reuss zweifellos Maßstäbe. Chor und Instrumentalisten bringen den pulsierenden
Klangkosmos von Strawinsky mit unglaublicher Genauigkeit und Intensität zu Gehör.
WDR 3, Barbara Overbeck
Les Noces klingt dank Daniel Reuss endlich wie sie klingen muss; rhythmisch, saftig, derb. Ein Referenzeinspielung.
Die Märkische Algemeine, Oktober 2006
Diese Produktion ist in jeder Beziehung beispielhaft; unverbrauchtes Repertoire, kompetente und Inspirierte Interpretation, guter Klang; eine preisverdächtige Rehabilitierung des oft Ignorierten “späten” Stravinsky.
Georg Henkel, Musik an sich, 2006
Dagegen ist die neue Aufnahme mit Rias-Kammerchor unter Daniel Reuss eine wohltuend differenzierte, auch die Herztöne einfangende Darbietung des Werks.
In Stravinsky's eigener Aufnahme klirrt die Musik, hier schwingt sie.
Rheinische Post, Wolfram Goertz, 2006
Einfach gigantisch.
Manuel Müller, Klassik.com, 2006
Released by: Harmonia Mundi
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