Sibelius: Rakastava (performed by the EVCH)

Jean Sibelius (1865-1957): Rakastava (The Lover) (1894, 1898)
Live recording 9/2015, Henrikinkirkko, Turku
performed by the English Vocal Consort of Helsinki:
Mirjam Solomon, soprano
Iida Antola, soprano
David Hackston, countertenor
Edward Ananian-Cooper, tenor
Martti Anttila, tenor
Valter Maasalo, baritone
www.englishvocalconsort.com/

[@rusaka6391]

Truly beautiful. We recently has started to learning this piece in our choir and it is really helpful to listen to you.

[@solyogi6684]

All of a sudden the live performance of this very piece that I heard in 2016(?) in Meilahden Kirkko came to mind.
That was an otherworldly, brilliant and hitherto unsurpassed experience of this piece - which is by no means the easiest to do in a one voice per part version.
Will we ever get to hear EVCH again? Since the members are pursuing their individual careers in different fields and parts of the world it seems less likely.
It’s always a sheer delight to hear ms. Antolas beautiful and intelligent singing. Remember her name - you will definitely hear of her.

[@stevesewall]

Otherworldly is the word for this otherworldly music, beautifully sung here.

[@HowardJohnstone]

Excellent, but no vibrato in female voices, this is Choir. Compare to how this was done in Robert Shaw´s Chorale, he had a lot of soloists who had to be integrated into homophony!

[@andrewhague1521]

It's not renaissance music. Have you ever heard a Russian choir?

[@rolfkristianknudsen2437]

@@andrewhague1521 I agree. Its romantic music, and partly solistic, so vibrato is allowed.