Dolce Vita -Ltd- – Jonas Kaufmann

   in Choir & Organ (Mar, 2014)
The sturdy durability of Parry, Ireland, Part’s Beatitudes, and Brahms’s early Geistliches Lied tends to overshadow the more delicately woven atmosphere created by pieces by our contemporaries – MacMillan’s Child’s Prayer, Matthew Martin’s Justorum animae, Geraint Lewis’s The souls of the righteous, and Mark Blatchly’s September 1914: For the Fallen, an effective setting of the Binyon poem, with a trumpet playing the last post at its close. These fine performances make an interestingly broad anthology, culminating in Vaughan Williams’s Lord, thou has been our refuge, with a good solo quartet. …