Polyphony and its conductor, Stephen Layton, are among the most familiar presences on the British choral scene, and it may be with some trepidation that choral music fans greet this album of American music, released in conjunction with the U.S. Independence Day celebrations in 2015. They needn't have worried: diction isn't much of an issue in the repertory Polyphony has chosen, and the program is a nice mix of familiar numbers and worthwhile surprises. It's framed by Randall Thompson, whose Alleluia will be familiar to many ...
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Polyphony and its conductor, Stephen Layton, are among the most familiar presences on the British choral scene, and it may be with some trepidation that choral music fans greet this album of American music, released in conjunction with the U.S. Independence Day celebrations in 2015. They needn't have worried: diction isn't much of an issue in the repertory Polyphony has chosen, and the program is a nice mix of familiar numbers and worthwhile surprises. It's framed by Randall Thompson, whose Alleluia will be familiar to many Americans who've sung in a collegiate choir; the Fare Well at the end, a setting of a poem by Walter de la Mare, is considerably more novel. Thompson's music was written with the big, more ceremonial type of American choir in mind, and he sounds a little constrained here. But at the center of the program is Samuel Barber, and here Polyphony works wonders. Layton includes the Agnus Dei (track 2), the vocal version of the famed Adagio for strings (which has become as popular in...
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