An iridescent performance of Rachmaninoff’s Vespers at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin in Manhattan capped the White Light Festival residence of the Berlin Radio Choir on Friday. Earlier in the week, this excellent choir, founded in 1925, had shown extraordinary personal commitment and textual nuance in Peter Sellars’s heart-wrenching ritualization of Bach’s “St. Matthew Passion” at the Park Avenue Armory. Here, under the direction of its principal conductor, Simon Halsey, the choir showed off a different sound — homogeneous, silky and ... continue reading
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