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General recommendation

majorka | Norway | 11/13/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Knut Nystedt was born in 1915, and is still alive and active in 2003 to my knowledge. He has been knighted by HM King Olav V of his native Norway for his contribution to music. He also has numerous other awards for his work, inclucing a Distinguished Service Citation from the Augsburg College in Minneapolis for his contributions to US musical life. He specialises in choral music and started "The Norwegian Soloists Choir", who have premiered a great many of his original compositions, but he has also composed orchestral music. His works are performed all over the world. He studied with Aaron Copeland, amongst others, and his style is unmistakably modern. His compositions vary in intensity from ppp to fff, use a modern tonal language and choral effects like hovering chords. He is usually excellent at the balancing act between creativity and unlistenability - most of the works I know are just very interesting. It's a shame only this recoring of his choral music is available on Amamzon, because several others exist.If you like choral music by Britten, Kodaly or Pärt, you should definitely give this a try!"

Fantastic buy

Aaron McFarlane | Montreal, QC Canada | 10/26/2001

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This CD is worth the price. The music is hauntingly beautiful, the immortal Bach track makes your spine tingle in that familiar way (music-lovers will understand...). The singing is fantastic - overtones are present with the impecable intonation. All in all a good buy with hours of repeated listening provided."