The program on this disc replicates one often given live during the holiday season by the Choral Arts Society of Washington under conductor Joseph Holt. It brings together works that certainly deserve wider exposure but may or may not work well together. All three works -- the Misa Criolla and Navedad Nuestra of Argentine composer Ariel Ramírez and the Missa Luba compiled by Belgian missionary Guido Haazen from improvised Christian sacred singing (in Latin) by Congolese musicians -- occupy a space between folkloric material ...
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The program on this disc replicates one often given live during the holiday season by the Choral Arts Society of Washington under conductor Joseph Holt. It brings together works that certainly deserve wider exposure but may or may not work well together. All three works -- the Misa Criolla and Navedad Nuestra of Argentine composer Ariel Ramírez and the Missa Luba compiled by Belgian missionary Guido Haazen from improvised Christian sacred singing (in Latin) by Congolese musicians -- occupy a space between folkloric material and classical composition. They are accompanied by traditional percussion instruments, and they do not so much use traditional materials as the basis for a new classical language as just rework them lightly to make them function in concert presentation. José Carreras issued a disc with the same trio of works a few years back, and this one, with its quieter presentation, is preferable. Yet it's questionable whether the program is really a coherent one at all. The histories of the...
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