Andrea Bocelli [Tenor], Bryn Terfel [Bass-Baritone], Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia [Orchestra], Myung-Whun Chung [Conductor], Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia [Chorus] Cecilia Bartoli [Mezzo-Soprano] - Hymn for the World 2 / Bartoli, Bocelli, Terfel, Chung
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Artist: Andrea Bocelli [Tenor], Bryn Terfel [Bass-Baritone], Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia [Orchestra], Myung-Whun Chung [Conductor], Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia [Chorus] Cecilia Bartoli [Mezzo-Soprano]Composer: Johann Sebastian [Composer], Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus [Composer], Fauré, Gabriel [Composer], Tavener, John [Composer], Verdi, Giuseppe [Composer], Bruckner, Anton [Composer], Schubert, Franz [Composer], Gounod, Charles [Composer] Bach
Conductor: Myung-Whun Chung
Orchestra: Orchestra dell'Accademia Santa Cecilia
Performer: Cecilia Bartoli
Performer: Andrea Bocelli
Performer: Bryn Terfel
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2012-03-14
Music Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Product features:
- VARIOS INTERPRETES VOICES FROM HEAVEN
- Domine ad adiuvandum a 6
- Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris
- 5. Laudate Dominum omnes gentes (Ps. 116/117)
- 3. Sequentia: Lacrimosa
- 10. Chor: Stimmt an die Saiten
- Sanctus
- Locus Iste (Motet)
- Chorus: ""Va, pensiero, sull'ali dorate""
- Ave Maria: arr. from Bach's Prelude No.1 BWV 846
- 4. Pie Jesu
- 6. Libera me
- Sanctus
- Gloria in excelsis Deo
- Song for Athene
- I Believe
Music reviews of Hymn for the World 2 / Bartoli, Bocelli, Terfel, Chung
Music Review: Don't be fooled!!!
Rating: 1 Stars
CD's such as this one are intended, as Gramophone aptly put it, for "The Three Tenors" audience, the kind of "classical music for dummies" fare that I would urge you to avoid. Neither performer on this recording deserves much praise. Bryn Terfel is neither a deep basse like, for example, Cesare Siepi, not a warm-colored basse-taille like Nicolas Rivenq or Stephen Varcoe. He is particularly unispiring in baroque repertory. The hype over him baffles me. But the biggest hype in recent memory (whose ridiculous magnitude is comparable only to the medieval Dutch tulip bubble) is Andrea Bocelli. I was happy to read a recent review of this album by Gramophone, replete with some pretty scalding remarks, particularly about Bocelli (somebody finally said it!). Paraphrasing Gramophone, Bocelli just has no sense of tonal consistency or proper technique; all he does is alternating his annoying and unsteady baritonal droning with his shrill forays into high B's and C's. And alas, the normally excellent Cecilia Bartoli doesn't save this ill-begotten disc. She simply must have had a bad day. To hear her at her best, buy either her "Portrait" album or a more recent album entitled "If you love me, 18th-century songs." To hear a good performance by Terfel, buy "The Damnation of Faust" (Chung). To hear a good Bocelli... well, there isn't anything good with Bocelli. If you want a good "standard" tenor, try Jose Cura. If you are curious about some "non-bel-canto" tenors, check out Bostridge, Agnew or Padmore. In other words, spend your money elsewhere!
Description of Hymn for the World 2 / Bartoli, Bocelli, Terfel, Chung
Voices from Heaven by Cecilia Bartoli [Mezzo-Soprano], Andrea Bocelli [Tenor], Bryn Terfel [Bass-Baritone], Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia [Orchestra], Myung-Whun Chung [Conductor], Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia [Chorus]This product is manufactured on demand using CD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply.
This is the second installment in a recording project originally inspired by Pope John Paul II's visit to Paris in 1997 to celebrate the Worldwide Days of Youth. A surprisingly effective anthology of mostly sacred liturgical music, the selections here occasionally give the impression of "bleeding chunks" (as in the majestic opener from one of Monteverdi's sublimest creations, the 1610 Vespers) but have been chosen with imagination. Chung coordinates his forces in larger choral pieces with power and vertical balance, making a standout of the Beethovenian mystery and drive apparent in the "Sanctus" from Schubert's Mass in E-flat. Contributions by Cecilia Bartoli find the mezzo in top form--listen to her finely spun line interweave with the oboe d'amore in a selection from Bach's B Minor Mass--and as evocative as bright stained glass in Fauré's "Pie Jesu." Bryn Terfel brings charismatic presence to his one selection here (also from the Fauré Requiem). Also included are the interminable "Song for Athene" by John Taverner and a sentimental but earnest performance by Andrea Bocelli in Eric Levi's hymn for the world, "I Believe." --Thomas May
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