Sacred Songs
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Composer or Director: Andrew Lloyd Webber, (Abraham) Louis Niedermeyer, Traditional, Felix Mendelssohn, Krzysztof Penderecki, Charles-François Gounod, Gioachino Rossini, James M. Black, Pietro Mascagni, César Franck, Franz Schubert, Leonard Bernstein
Label: EMI
Magazine Review Date: 4/1991
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 74
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: 754098-2
Tracks:
| Composition | Artist Credit |
|---|---|
| Ave Maria |
Charles-François Gounod, Composer
Barbara Hendricks, Soprano Charles-François Gounod, Composer Eric Ericson, Conductor Stockholm Chamber Orchestra |
| Panis angelicus |
César Franck, Composer
Barbara Hendricks, Soprano César Franck, Composer Eric Ericson, Conductor Stockholm Chamber Orchestra |
| Ave Maria, 'Ellens Gesang III' |
Franz Schubert, Composer
Barbara Hendricks, Soprano Eric Ericson, Conductor Franz Schubert, Composer Stockholm Chamber Orchestra |
| Pietà, Signore |
(Abraham) Louis Niedermeyer, Composer
(Abraham) Louis Niedermeyer, Composer Barbara Hendricks, Soprano Eric Ericson, Conductor Stockholm Chamber Orchestra |
| Salve o Maria |
Pietro Mascagni, Composer
Barbara Hendricks, Soprano Eric Ericson, Conductor Pietro Mascagni, Composer Stockholm Chamber Orchestra |
| Hear my prayer |
Felix Mendelssohn, Composer
(Eric) Ericson Chamber Choir Barbara Hendricks, Soprano Eric Ericson, Conductor Erik Lundkvist, Organ Felix Mendelssohn, Composer |
| Messe solennelle de Sainte Cécile, Movement: Sanctus |
Charles-François Gounod, Composer
(Eric) Ericson Chamber Choir Barbara Hendricks, Soprano Charles-François Gounod, Composer Eric Ericson, Conductor Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra |
| Stabat mater, Movement: Inflammatus et accensus |
Gioachino Rossini, Composer
(Eric) Ericson Chamber Choir Barbara Hendricks, Soprano Eric Ericson, Conductor Gioachino Rossini, Composer Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra |
| (A) Polish Requiem |
Krzysztof Penderecki, Composer
Krzysztof Penderecki, Composer |
| Symphony No. 3, 'Kaddish' |
Leonard Bernstein, Composer
(Eric) Ericson Chamber Choir Barbara Hendricks, Soprano Eric Ericson, Conductor Leonard Bernstein, Composer Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra |
| Requiem, Movement: Pie Jesu |
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Composer
(Eric) Ericson Chamber Choir Andrew Lloyd Webber, Composer Barbara Hendricks, Soprano Eric Ericson, Conductor Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra |
| Amazing Grace |
Traditional, Composer
Barbara Hendricks, Soprano Eric Ericson, Conductor Orphei Drängar Traditional, Composer Ulf Johansson, Piano |
| When the Saints go marching in |
James M. Black, Composer
Barbara Hendricks, Soprano Eric Ericson, Conductor Instrumental Ensemble James M. Black, Composer Orphei Drängar Ulf Johansson, Piano |
| Sometimes I feel like a motherless chile |
Traditional, Composer
Barbara Hendricks, Soprano Traditional, Composer |
Author: hfinch
It is difficult to know quite how seriously to take this disc of Chants sacres, recorded as it is by a French/Swedish team in Stockholm's Conserthuset and sung by an all-American girl, robe de Givenchy, bijoux Ebel (the documentation is rather less thorough on other points).
In a vein of either low-key camp or gently reverent Victorian revivalism, Barbara Hendricks is joined by Erik Lundkvist's wheezy organ for a Bach/Gounod Ave Maria of chaste ardour, then by the Stockholm Chamber Orchestra for a distinctly incense-free Panis angelicus, pure and clear as Scandinavian glass.
After some interminable wanderings in the side-chapels of Stradella and Mascagni, Hendricks permits the Eric Ericson Chamber Choir to come into its own for a surprisingly sprightly Hear my prayer. The choral responses to Hendricks's almost disarming solo are sober and staid. More interesting stylistic dichotemies are to be found in the smouldering flames of the Walesa dedicated ''Lacrimosa'' of Penderecki, and a somewhat perfunctory Lloyd Webber ''Pie Jesu''.
For Bernstein's ''Kaddish II'' and for the spirituals, Hendricks at last seems able to enter into the spirit of things. The former makes finely poised, unforced progress; the latter, in Robert Sund's busky piano arrangements, enable the fingers of Ulf Johansson and the cavernous male voices of the Orphei Drangar to have the time of their lives.'
In a vein of either low-key camp or gently reverent Victorian revivalism, Barbara Hendricks is joined by Erik Lundkvist's wheezy organ for a Bach/Gounod Ave Maria of chaste ardour, then by the Stockholm Chamber Orchestra for a distinctly incense-free Panis angelicus, pure and clear as Scandinavian glass.
After some interminable wanderings in the side-chapels of Stradella and Mascagni, Hendricks permits the Eric Ericson Chamber Choir to come into its own for a surprisingly sprightly Hear my prayer. The choral responses to Hendricks's almost disarming solo are sober and staid. More interesting stylistic dichotemies are to be found in the smouldering flames of the Walesa dedicated ''Lacrimosa'' of Penderecki, and a somewhat perfunctory Lloyd Webber ''Pie Jesu''.
For Bernstein's ''Kaddish II'' and for the spirituals, Hendricks at last seems able to enter into the spirit of things. The former makes finely poised, unforced progress; the latter, in Robert Sund's busky piano arrangements, enable the fingers of Ulf Johansson and the cavernous male voices of the Orphei Drangar to have the time of their lives.'
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