Our very own Philippine Madrigal Singers winning the European Grand Prix in Choral Singing in Arezzo, Italy, for the second time!
I'm not familiar with this particular piece at all (“We Beheld Once Again the Stars” by Z. Randall Stroope and sung in its Italian version) but it is easy to see why they took home the prize: tonal color and balance, and most impressive of all, the dynamics which is pretty amazing, from the whisper-like pianissimo (with a sustained bass line), to the thundering fortissimo, especially during the double fugue part. Extremely difficult.
As the turmoil subsides, the deep and sombre bass voices settle down while the sopranos quietly enter, as if your spirit has been lifted up from the pit and into the heavens. And towards the end, from a very long sustained line (how did they do that!), the voices fade slowly into the horizon, like the last rays of the setting sun. Wow! Bravi!
I'm not familiar with this particular piece at all (“We Beheld Once Again the Stars” by Z. Randall Stroope and sung in its Italian version) but it is easy to see why they took home the prize: tonal color and balance, and most impressive of all, the dynamics which is pretty amazing, from the whisper-like pianissimo (with a sustained bass line), to the thundering fortissimo, especially during the double fugue part. Extremely difficult.
As the turmoil subsides, the deep and sombre bass voices settle down while the sopranos quietly enter, as if your spirit has been lifted up from the pit and into the heavens. And towards the end, from a very long sustained line (how did they do that!), the voices fade slowly into the horizon, like the last rays of the setting sun. Wow! Bravi!
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Their victory/homecoming concert at CCP will be on October 27 and 28. Tara, nood tayo.
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