Andreas Hallén - Ett Juloratorium (A Christmas Oratorio)

ID: CDS1028-2 (EAN: 7393338102823)  | 1 CD | DDD
Ausgefolgt: 1996

LABEL:

Sterling Records

Kolektion:

World Premiere Recording

Subkolektion:

Christmas Music

Komponisten:

HALLÉN, Andreas

Interpreten:

HOEL, Lena (soprano) | ZACHARIASSEN, Mathias (tenor)

Ensembles:

Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Choir

Dirigenten:

ANDERSSON, B. Tommy

Andere Infos:

It is impossible to recognise the grumbling old man Hallén in his music. Contemporaries thought of him as impossible. But the truth is probably that he was uncompromising in his musical ideals. This is a truly stunning Christmas Oratorio for everybody fed up with Christmas music. Of course never recorded before!!

I recommend that all folk who enjoy choral music try out this piece. It is, as we say in the North Country, 'a right good sing'. I played this work to a few friends, who are big Wagnerians. They thoroughly enjoyed it. If this work were a long lost, but recently discovered, essay by Wagner, it would soon become well known. It would certainly form part of his canon. - MusicWeb