The Male Choir of St Petersburg
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 | Product Details: Release Date: 01 February 1999 Record Label: Début Rating:   Sales Rank: 58594 | | Look for similar items by category:
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| | Customer Reviews: I want to give it ten stars (09 December 2009)Those guys can sing - I wish I could recall the year I paid a visit to the Albert Hall in the 70's when the Russian Choir - the Red Army Choir sang for us - I did not want to go home - I did not want the Concert to be over - this record is much the same sort of Choral - just settle down and listen - be inspired good music (26 January 2005)this is very good music with a nice mix of styles. it doesnt all stay as deppressing stereotypical russian music there are some very lively songs. despite a tendancy to use the very lower range of the basso profundo it can be very relaxing Broad survey of Russian choral tradition (14 November 2002)Another very good disc in EMI's debut series, and another which they have been forced by the music press and public demand to reissue with texts and translations. Unfortunately (like the Shtoda, Karneus and Gunn reissues) EMI have distingished the new issues by colour booklet photos but not updated the catalogue number. So whether you get texts or not is pot luck. However in this case at least one can always go to the EMI website to download the texts (except oddly for the best release in the whole series, the Jonathan Lemalu recital). To come to the music, you'd have to go back to old recordings of Bulgarian Boris Christoff singing with various Russian choirs to find singing of this quality, and there of course the sound is rough. There are alternative modern recordings of some of these works on various Red Army choir discs but musically Afanasiev's choir are much sweeter to listen to. |
