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- Summary: Co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall and the Perth Theater and Concert Hall, the recording of David Lang's The Little Match Girl Passion won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Music.
- Record Label: Harmonia Mundi
- Genre(s): Classical
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Positive: 4 out of 4
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The sound of the SACD is vibrant, present, and life-like, particularly in the little match girl passion. Highly recommended for fans of new music.
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What makes it so compelling is the haunting vocal writing. Full of gently lapping lines, close imitation and moments of honeyed homophony, all underpinned by tactful percussion, it is startlingly different from the driving, hard edges of much of Lang's work with the Bang On a Can collective.
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The Little Match Girl Passion is as much a devotional piece as the Bach Passion it is modeled on, and with it, Lang has produced the most profound and emotionally resonant work of his career.
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Listeners familiar with Mr. Lang’s more obstreperous instrumental works may not recognize his style here (though a few more meditative ensemble pieces hint at it). But these choral settings, composed from 2001 to 2007, show that he has idiosyncratic but effective ideas about how to use voices.
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Positive: 1 out of 1
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Jan 3, 2015
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