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Choral works by: Palestrina Gibbons Monteverdi Bach Brahms Fauré Parry Rachmaninov Poulenc Rutter Pårt Works for saxophone quartet by: Alasdair Nicolson Graham Fitkin Piazzolla |
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Somerset Chamber Choir Saxploitation Richard Pearce Graham Caldbeck |
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Review:
8 & 9 August 2000
St Andrew’s Church, Plymouth & Truro Cathedral
Tour: Psalms, Songs, & Saxes
St Andrew's Church, Plymouth
You can't have too much of a good thing, or so they say. Well, Psalms, Songs & Saxes presented by the Somerset Chamber Choir together with Saxploitation certainly proved just the very opposite!
For this was simply an ongoing feast of music, of great variety and style, and with something for just about everyone's taste. Saxploitation are four highly talented young saxophonists who play with quite astonishing precision, despite the often quite extreme rhythmic complexity of the music, and they really enjoy every minute of it! They were equally at home in the intricacies of Graham Fitkin's Stub, completely caught the style in Alasdair Nicolson's vibrant arrangements of 42nd Street Stomp, and provided some totally effective, yet fresh contemporary obbligati in some of the vocal pieces.
Conductor, Graham Caldbeck produced fine and precise singing from his choir with
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Gershwin's 'Love Walked In' brought all the resources together in a jazz finale, to conclude what had been a highly enjoyable evening, and one with such a welcome mix of fun, together with moments of the utmost poignancy and emotion.
Philip R Buttall -