Denver Post Reviews "Across the Sea"
Read the full review online at The Denver Post
One of its most successful seasons yet, Kantorei recently wrapped up its 2009-2010 concert season by bringing internationally acclaimed conductor Simon Carrington to the Denver arts
community. Most recently the professor of choral conducting at Yale University, Carrington is best known for co-founding the renowned
British vocal ensemble The King’s Singers. Carrington joined Kantorei for an evening of choral music from several British composers
including William Byrd, Henry Purcell, and Benjamin
Britten. Britten's rarely-performed "A.M.D.G. (Ad majorem Dei gloriam)," a setting of seven texts by English poet Gerard Manley Hopkins, highlighted the selections under Carrington's direction.
Denver Post reviewer Sabine Kortals was on hand and wrote, "Under his baton, a pair of William Byrd
pieces illuminated the smooth, warmly resonant tone of the choir's well-blended voices."
Also featured in the concert was the world-premier performance of Lost in the Loving, Floating Ocean of Thee, the latest work from Kantorei’s own Timothy Tharaldson. The piece was very well-received by our audiences and was featured heavily in the review, in which Kortals writes, "...Tharaldson expertly employs the rich sound of the 52-voice choir to communicate a poignant serenade to a merciful Death."
Read the full review online at The Denver Post - "Kantorei's voices bring hymn to death sweet poignancy."
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