Secular Choral Music by Netherlands Chamber Choir

Netherlands Chamber Choir

Secular Choral Music

Format: CD
Label: Globe
UPC: 8711525520509
Catnr: GLO 5205
Release date: 19 August 2002

1 CD

Label
Globe

UPC
8711525520509

Catalogue number
GLO 5205

Release date
19 August 2002

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About the album

The successor and companion to our highly successful album with Francis Poulenc's Sacred Choral Music: the complete Secular Choral Music, once again with the illustrious Netherlands Chamber Choir conducted by Eric Ericson, recognised as one of the greatest choral conductors of the 20th century. Professor Ericson, as well as the Netherlands Chamber Choir, has always had a special affinity with Poulenc's choral works and nowhere can this be experienced better than on this album and its predecessor which was hailed by critics all over the world as one of the best choral albums ever. Need we say more?

Succesvol album met koormuziek van Francis Poulenc
Dit is de opvolger en metgezel van het zeer succesvolle album met Francis Poulencs Sacred Choral Music: the complete Secular Choral Music, weer met het illustere Nederlandse Kamerkoor onder leiding van de inmiddels overleden Zweed Eric Ericson, die werd gezien als een van de grootste koordirigenten ter wereld. Ericson en het Nederlands Kamerkoor hadden altijd een speciale band met Poulencs korale werken en nergens kan dit beter worden ervaren dan op dit album en zijn voorganger, die werd geprezen door critici van over de wereld als een van de mooiste korale albums ooit. Een waardering die ook terug was te zien in het grote succes van dit album bij het publiek.

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Netherlands Chamber Choir

The Netherlands Chamber Choir exists since 1937, and has been one of the world’s top choirs for decades. The Netherlands Chamber Choir has been internationally praised by critics for its homogeneous sound and for the soloist quality of the singers. One of the choir’s missions is to keep choral music very much alive as an art form, by looking for new formats, by innovative commissions and exciting collaborations. It results in concerts that are not only perceived as beautiful, but that appeal to all senses. Education and participation are a vital part of the choir’s mission. The Netherlands Chamber Choir provides coaching, workshops, and ‘adopts’ choirs as supporting act for their own concerts. Besides their own concert series, the choir often collaborates with renowned ensembles such as the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, ASKO|Schönberg, La...

Education and participation are a vital part of the choir’s mission. The Netherlands Chamber Choir provides coaching, workshops, and ‘adopts’ choirs as supporting act for their own concerts.

Besides their own concert series, the choir often collaborates with renowned ensembles such as the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, ASKO|Schönberg, La Fenice and Concert Lorrain.

From August 1, 2015 Peter Dijkstra watches over the unique sound of the Netherlands Chamber Choir The Netherlands Chamber Choir had Felix de Nobel as its first chief conductor. Uwe Gronostay, Tõnu Kaljuste, Stephen Layton and Risto Joost were his respective successors. Each of them gave the Netherlands Chamber Choir, and choral music in general, new, major impulses.

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Eric Ericson (conductor)

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Francis Poulenc

Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc was a French composer and pianist. Poulenc's wealthy family intended him for a business career in the Rhone Poulenc family company and did not allow him to enrol at a music college. Largely self-educated musically, he studied with the pianist Ricardo Viñes, who became his mentor after the composer's parents died. Poulenc soon came under the influence of Erik Satie, under whose tutelage he became one of a group of young composers known collectively as Les Six. This group of French composers from the 1920s aimed to clear music of the impressionism of Claude Debussy, and German influences such as the Romanticism of Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss. Their motto was 'L'art pour l'art': they composed music for the sake of...

Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc was a French composer and pianist. Poulenc's wealthy family intended him for a business career in the Rhone Poulenc family company and did not allow him to enrol at a music college. Largely self-educated musically, he studied with the pianist Ricardo Viñes, who became his mentor after the composer's parents died. Poulenc soon came under the influence of Erik Satie, under whose tutelage he became one of a group of young composers known collectively as Les Six. This group of French composers from the 1920s aimed to clear music of the impressionism of Claude Debussy, and German influences such as the Romanticism of Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss. Their motto was "L'art pour l'art": they composed music for the sake of music, without any 'meaning' or extramusical intents. In his early works Poulenc became known for his high spirits and irreverence. During the 1930s a much more serious side to his nature emerged, particularly in the religious music he composed from 1936 onwards, which he alternated with his more light-hearted works.

Netherlands Chamber Choir

Secular Choral Music

About the album

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Netherlands Chamber Choir

Eric Ericson (conductor)

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Francis Poulenc

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