Daniel Reuss, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, RIAS Kammerchor - Handel: Solomon (2007)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 746 Mb | Total time: 80:11+75:07 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMC 901949.5 | Recorded: 2006
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 746 Mb | Total time: 80:11+75:07 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Harmonia Mundi | # HMC 901949.5 | Recorded: 2006
Conductor Daniel Reuss' splendid new recording of Handel's Solomon expands the extraordinarily broad range of music, including works by Bach, Mozart, Berlioz, Elgar, Ligeti, Stefan Wolpe, and the Bang on a Can composers, in which he has shown his mastery. His 2006 recording of Martin's Le vin herbé was one of the highlights of the year. Handel scored the oratorio for unusually large choral and orchestral forces, and the sound of this performance, with the RIAS-Kammerchor and Akademie für Alte Musik, Berlin, is warmly humanistic, beautifully paced, and tonally sumptuous, and is sung and played with stylistic assurance and lively dramatic passion.