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"We had to wait for its 60th anniversary tour, but the Netherlands Chamber Choir finally made its Los Angeles debut on Saturday evening at Shoenberg Hall. The much recorded and widely traveled ensemble confirmed its reputation for high technical achievement and versatility, delivering a daunting and varied program with passion and poise. The 24-voice choir has a flexible, distinctive sound, suggestive at times of a well matched consort of period wind instruments. Although individual voices occasionally came to the fore in moments of emphasis, the choir sang and breathed as one, spinning supple lines of great tensile strength and peerless textural clarity." --John Henken, The Los Angeles Times "Janacek asked for the almost impossible in this work. but at such moments the Netherlands Chamber Choir is at its best." -- Goudse Courant "This performance by the Netherlands Chamber Choir was gripping because the phenomenal technical security of this excellent choir did not draw attention to itself, The transparent voice leading, the warm timbres, and the wonderfully worked out balance of the voice groups functioned completely naturally." -- Bremer Nachrichten "The singers produce some wonderfully restrained and
impeccably disciplined singing. Uwe Gronostay has drilled this excellent choir so well
that there isn't a single rough moment or dubious decision. The Netherlands Chamber
Choir is capable of producing a sound of great beauty and they take every opportunity to
do so here." "The remarkable thing about the Netherlands Chamber
Choir is that the singers have so perfectly attuned their sound to one another that they
seem to form one instrument together, even while each individual is separately audible. In
this way they achieved a supreme performance of Ligeti's Three Fantasies. It all seemed to
happen effortlessly, an illusion that can only be brought about by great technical
control...an unforgettable evening." "The Barcelona Eddy Music Festival had a conclusion
which could not have been more magnificent. The Netherlands Chamber Choir, which is
professionally devoted to the performance of music of all periods, showed itself to be
virtually unrivaled in this type of music." |
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