Michel Corboz, Orchestre Gulbenkian - Arthur Honegger: Une Cantate de Noël, La Danse des morts (1990)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 224 Mb | Total time: 54:22 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Erato | # 2292-45520-2 | Recorded: 1989
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 224 Mb | Total time: 54:22 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Erato | # 2292-45520-2 | Recorded: 1989
It is good that there is a recording of Honegger's charming Christmas cantata with French-speaking soloists that does full justice to the work. It was the last completed work for baritone, choir and organ in 1953. In fact, it certainly deserves greater fame outside France. The recording was made in Lisbon and was later remastered by Cascavelle. We hear very beautiful, and in the case of the Danse des morts from 1938/40 (for speaker, soprano, baritone, choir and orchestra), even very concise renditions.