Review of the Dresden Philharmonic Children’s Choir – Folk Songs

The Dresden Philharmonic Children’s Choir opens this CD with a French Renaissance overture of intimate intensity, a simple solemnity that is immediately affecting. In popular tunes from a wide range of countries, often interspersed with quotes from popular electronic music, the art of vocals and higher order come together in the most beautiful way. Sometimes it is very cheerful as in “Bird Wedding”, sometimes very profound as in “Northern Lights” and sometimes experimental as in “Mirunzarna”. The children’s choir is at its best – and the Amacordler proves that even one of the world’s best a cappella groups can act with almost childlike exuberance. The great pleasure that singers both old and young had with this recording is inevitably passed on to the listener.

Popular songs all over the world
Works by Arbeau, Schumann, Guillot, Lassus and others

Dresden Philharmonic Children’s Choir, Amarchord, Günter Berger (conductor)
Sony classic

amarcord

Under the name Amarchord (“I remember” in the Emilia-Romagna dialect), the band was founded in the fall of 1992 by former members of the Leipzig St. Thomas Choir, and performed for the first time in October 1993. The focus of the musical work is…Continue