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Latvian Radio Choir, Sigvards Klava - Sacred Love: Yuri Falik, Arturs Maskats, Georgy Sviridov (2014)

Posted By: Designol

Date: 24 Dec 2023 19:03:31

Latvian Radio Choir, Sigvards Klava - Sacred Love: Yuri Falik, Arturs Maskats, Georgy Sviridov (2014)

This release from the Latvian Radio Choir, conducted by Sigvards Kłava, features timeless choral works by three composers from Russia and Latvia: Yuri Falik, Artūrs Maskats and Georgy Sviridov. These 20th and 21st century choral works present the profound and sacred, which is to be found and enjoyed in many areas of our lives, from nature and the seasons to personal relationships and love. The Latvian Choir’s previous release on Ondine – Rachmaninov’s All-Night Vigil – was chosen as ‘Record of the Month’ for Gramophone Magazine and also received a nomination for ‘best choral disc’ in the 2013 Gramophone Awards. The Latvian Radio Choir is considered one of the best chamber choirs in Europe.

Pushkin, Blok, Gogol, Pasternak: some fine Russian writers come together here. Their elusive and allusive verses both invite and defy assimilation into choral works by Yuri Falik, Arturs Maskats and Georgy Sviridov.

The texts aren’t helped to give up their secrets by the album’s magpie approach to programming, gathering single movements from choral cycles, incidental music and choral concertos into a beautiful but rather incoherent collage. Sviridov, for example, is represented by two movements from Pushkin’s Garland, music for Aleksey Tolstoy’s play Tsar Feodor Ionnovich and individual works from three other cycles. This is more sampler than sustained exploration.

That being said, the Latvian Radio Choir (directed by Sigvards Kl,ava) prove themselves adept at reinventing themselves. Falik’s A Stranger and Habanera pulse with worldly rhythms and life, swooping and swooning in wild portamentos, while Sviridov’s Icon and Sacred Love demand complete restraint and glowing understatement.

A rich bass section helps anchor the Russian music, grounding it not only harmonically but also stylistically in the Russian Orthodox choral tradition that lies behind the music of all three composers. It’s a shame that the upper voices can’t match them for rounded blend. The choir’s soprano line is characterised throughout by an unusually tight, pinched sound that fails to find the maturity to carry these densely woven texts. There’s nothing naive or folk-innocent here in these complicated narratives of faith and human isolation, and it would have been nice to hear a choral sound evolved to reflect that.

Review by Alexandra Coghlan, Gramophone

Latvian Radio Choir

Performers:

Aleksandrs Antoņenko tenor (4, 6, 8)
Ieva Ezeriete soprano (2, 10)
Latvian Radio Choir
Sigvards Kļava, conductor

Tracklist:

Yuri Falik (1936-2009)

01. A Stranger (01:53)
02. Your Temple, Lord (05:11)
03. Habanera (02:10)
04. Autumn (03:35)

Arturs Maskats (b.1957)

05. Let My Prayer Be Granted (09:08)
06. Spring (13:41)

Georgy Sviridov (1915-1998)

07. Winter Morning (03:54)
08. About Lost Youth (04:04)
09. Christmas Carol (01:57)
10. Sacred Love (03:19)
11. Natasha (02:05)
12. Icon (05:59)

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