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Polyphony

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Eric Whitacre: Cloudburst and Other Choral Works

(Hyperion)

Here’s a CD to put the hype back into Hyperion. The beleaguered label introduces the extraordinarily beautiful unaccompanied vocal music of the 36-year-old American composer who revels in the most dazzling dissonance in radiant cluster chords, sung echoes and oscillations around plaintive melodic lines. He uses this delicious style to word-paint with sensitivity the verse of his favourite poets (Cummings, Paz, Lorca, Dickinson etc). The recording is blessed with top performers in the choir Polyphony under the conductor Stephen Layton, who carefully shapes the recitativo phrasing and demands crystal clarity in diction and ensemble. Hyperion has a winner.

RICK JONES

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