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Post Subject: The great Corus performances!Posted by Romy the Cat on: 10/12/2008
James Levine, Boston Symphony and Tanglewood Festival Chorus played 3 weeks ago Brahms’s "German Requiem". It was one day Friday concert that I did not pay attention – the Brahms’s Requiem is not the work to which I have a warmth. I heard it once before live and have some recordings but I did not find it festinating. Today WGBH broadcasted the live-to-tape recording of the concert. Wow! How I understand why I never got this work – I never heard it with properly performing chorus.
The Tanglewood Festival Chorus was not just wonderful in this work but it truly showed off the amplitude of amassing expressive tools that a Chorus can possess. Chorus is immensely complex to reinstate by playback. The wonderfully performing Corus is immensely difficult to come along. Here where everything comes together.
http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2008/09/29/brahms_requiem_becomes_a_celebration/#commentAnchor
God bless Tanglewood Chorus and Boston FM.
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