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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2016-04-02 17:49:34
Singers Bring Sharp Contrasts and Rarefied Beauty
David Hoose rehearses his last BU show? (Sam Brewer photo) In an adventurous programming gambit Friday night, the Cantata Singers and Ensemble under David Hoose matched up two opposites—Johann Sebastian Bach and Anton Webern—and concluded with the monumental Brahms Requiem—all impeccably rendered. The near-capacity Jordan Hall audience sat rapt for the hour-long German Requiem and burst into a standing ovation after a long climactic sigh. The 53 singers, the full orchestra and Hoose himself, looked spent as they took their bows. Hoose is known for his creative programming (he calls the process “exhilarating”) and explained himself in his thoughtful program notes. He seeks to combine pieces that “suggest vital interactions, dynamic relationships”. He also likes to surprise his audience. And so opening the evening with the rarely heard Webern orchestration of the Fuga a 6 voci, the Ricercare, from Bach’s The Musical Offering (BWV 1079) met his criteria. Webern composed […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2015-10-12 16:20:21
Singing, Chanting and Waltzing Into New Season
Guest conductor Joseph Flummerfelt With innovative, centuries-spanning music under guest conductor Joseph Flummerfelt, Cantata Singers opened its 52nd season. The Saturday night in Jordan Hall began with parallel settings of the same text: O vos omnes, drawn from the “Lamentations of Jeremiah” set both by Tomás Luis de Victoria and by Pablo Casals. The 16th-century Spaniard’s austere and beautiful polyphony was performed with limpid grace, setting and meeting a high standard. The second setting, by the famous Catalan, dates from the early 20th century; lushly romantic in the vein of Brahms, operatic in reach and scope, plaintively expressive of the despair in the words, this choral incarnation also features lusty poetry. Parallelisms continued, this time with three 20th-century versions of the Lord’s Prayer. Peter Maxwell Davies’s declamatory version is filled with interesting tonalities and harmonies which serve to underscore the potent phrases. Maurice Duruflé’s Notre père vocally rendered the […]
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