Kamerkoor Jip Camber Choir concert spotify

Last weekend, Dutch chamber choir JIP gave a concert in Amsterdam and Utrecht. As I don't have too much choral music on this blog, I thought it was a nice idea to re-create that concert on Spotify. The two Dutch items are not on the list alas (although youtube has the Shakespeare Sonnet 43 by Jurriaan Andriessen, yes, brother òf...), but the rest is there, and makes a fine playlist :-)
Enjoy!

Ralph Vaughan Williams – Come away, death
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Silence and Music 
Quink vocal ensemble
Hubert Parry – Music, when soft voices die
Canzonetta Chamber Choir, Jeffry Wynn Davies
Camille Saint-Saëns – Calme des nuits Op. 68 no. 1
Camille Saint-Saëns – Les fleurs et les arbres Op. 68 no. 2
Monteverdi Choir, John Elliot Gardiner
Johannes Brahms – Fünf gesänge Op. 104
Capella Amsterdam, Daniel Reuss
Charles.V. Stanford – Blue Bird
Choir of new College Oxford, Edward Higginbottom
Edward Elgar – My love dwelt in a Northern land
Musica Intima

http://open.spotify.com/user/otterhouse/playlist/4REcltptWBJq042KFvqIj1 (HTTP link)

JIP Chamber Choir

So Classical, it's classic!... 001

Here are three "classic" classical records. Weird enough each with it own little flaws; Edward Elgar's cello concerto was better played by other cellists, than Jaqueline du Pre's 1965 recording. "Von Fremden Länden" and "Wichtiche Begebenheit" from Robert Schumann's Kinderszenen, played by Daniel Barenboim in 1979, is more Daniel than Robert. Too pounderous... And the 1981 recording of Brahms fouth symphony, conducted by Carlos Kleiber can seem a bit straightforward on first hearing. But the emotionally charged du Pre, backed up by Sir John Barbirolli and the London Symphony orchestra is unchallenged in utter expression and expressive depth. It is said that Mislav Rostopovich dropped the concerto off his repertoire after hearing this recording, as he had nothing to add anymore... At the time of the Schumann recording, Daniel Barenboim had already dropped his then handicapped wife Jacqueline du Pre (as mercilessly is depicted in the brilliant movie Hillary and Jackie), but nothing of that can be heard in his recording of the Kinderszenen. Lightweight playing on a heavy Steinway at a time when he was technically an musically at his peak. Kleiber and the Wiener Philharmoniker make Brahms human again. No autumn colours here, but a shining spineshivering sound... There are so many details in this recording that *work*, so many fine moments; it's never boring or really superficial. There was always a complain that with 39 minutes, the CD version made it only half-a-CD, but with Spotify, that is no longer a problem :-)

Hope you enjoy this classic pack!

http://open.spotify.com/user/otterhouse/playlist/15ps5rpjoRvF7tWGHu0FeP

(one hour, twenty-eight minutes of fine performances... :-)