Bernat Vivancos, Latvian Radio Choir, Sigvards Klava - Blanc flac album

"An impeccable performance of a capella choral works by Bernat Vivancos, a composer who possesses a vast knowledge of choral music and is blessed with great creative abilities. (…) Music that strikes a perfect understanding between images, colours, devotion and translucence, on the border between echo and memory.” RNE RADIO CLÁSICA. SPANISH NATIONAL RADIO "Blanc contains a work of extraordinary delicacy and high quality, in a style reminiscent of Arvo Pärt, James McMillan and Olivier Messiaen, and which definitely proves that Spanish contemporary works are at the forefront of the current European scene. Contemplative, transcendent music. Read more." TRITO EDICIONS "The Latvian Radio Choir signs this wonderful project with a ravishing sound and a portentous performance, overwhelming." DIVERDI MAGAZINE "This album is a treasure. A work of art in every sense: from the wonderful music contained and the sublime performances, to the exquisite edition, almost bibliophile, and the sound treatment, beyond the pure sound craftsmanship. It's impossible to speak in such a short space of all the beauties of this unusual recording, spotless, amazing." REVISTA MUSICAL CATALANA. "The quality shines out over the singing on this recording. Musically, full of images, aesthetically, uninhibited, and in form, like a magnificent ploychoral stained glass window. Its essence reflects references of the finest traditions, from Palestrina to Britten, through Purcell coming to rest in the French taste, refined, impressionist, making it a kind of Catalan Arvo Pärt. And the perfume is so suggestive that one is reluctant to wander through the sources treasuring the chemical composition of Vivancos work, from which a Gaudí-like naturalist architecture flows." CATMUSICA "The audition of this album shows the new acoustic dimension of it, as well as the excellent performances of one of the best chamber choirs in the world: the Latvian Radio Choir. The sound is surrounding and shows balance and mystery." 440 CLÀSSICA "An extremely refined harmonic craft and formal treatment (…) an initiative of superb quality and design.” SONOGRAMA MAGAZINE "The label Neu, in two CDs, presents a selection of attractive choral works which show a number of characteristic ingredients of Vivancos’ aesthetic search and musical language. A search that discovers in sound itself - in its textures, in modality, in colour - a form of beauty, of contemplation, at times highly expressive, and with an enviable inner intensity. His knowledge of choral language is manifest in works such as “Nigra Sum”, “Messe aux sons des cloches”, and popular songs treated in sensitive fashion.” CULTURAS, LA VANGUARDIA "A superb chamber choir.” SCHERZO MAGAZINE