Product Details
- An MVD Exclusive
- SKU: BMCCD178
- Format: CD
- UPC: 5998309301780
- Street Date: 08/25/10
- PreBook Date: 01/01/01
- Label: BMC Records »
- Genre: Classical
- Run Time: 50 mins
- Number of Discs: 1
- Year of Production: 2010
- Box Lot: 25
- Territory: NA,GB,AU
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Saint Ephraim Male Choir & Tamas Bubno - Liszt: Male Choruses Ii.
- List Price: $15.99
- Your Price: $15.99
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The first CD in this series, launched in 2009 by the Saint Ephraim Male Choir with the aim of recording all of Ferenc Liszt's works for male choir, contained secular choruses. Now, with this recording of the 'Szekszárd Mass' and some motets, the first disc of sacred music in the complete edition is released.
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Press Quotes
Bubnó builds his sacred programme around the mass Liszt reworked for a performance at Szekszárd that failed to take place; organ solos as introit and recessional, together with interleaved motets, give the semblance of a 'Liszt liturgy'. Those aforementioned traits make the result coherent, however varied, but if there is one piece that stands out, it is the eucharistic prayer Anima Christi, sanctifica me. This suggests how Liszt's respect for plainsong worked in alliance with his harmonic venturesomeness (as in Bruckner's sacred music, which Liszt's occasionally recalls) and also how his devotion to the Church by no means led him to silence his devotion to contemporary opera.
—Paul Griffith, Hungarian Quarterly, 2011/4
The soloists and St Ephraim men acquit themselves marvellously. Their sound is beautifully blended and, even more importantly, they sing with the conviction of true believers. It is hard to imagine a more sympathetic reading of these incandescent works.
—International Record Review, prestoclassical.co.uk
