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| Vladimír Godár's Mater The recently-released recording of Vladimír Godár's cantata "Mater" - performed by Czech singer Iva Bittová with the Chamber orchestra Solamente Naturali and the Bratislava conservatory choir - has been highly acclaimed by the press: "Drawing you into a labyrinth of musical memories, this outstanding overview of the composer's recent work references everything from the ancient intonational patterns of folk music and archetypal Baroque-like textures to the ghostly remembrance of a Monteverdi madrigal and startling dissonances. And there's a powerfully distinctive authorial voice at work here, and a rich arterial force courses its way through the collection… Singing in Yiddish, Latin, English and Slovak, Bittová is a thrilling protagonist, I can think of no other singer whose voice traverses such a vast emotional range, caressing the lyric one moment, raging and wailing the next." says Peter Quinn in the International Record Review. For Kent Hunt in Jazzwise Godár's creation is simply "the stuff of genius". write your comments about the article :: © 2007 Jazz News :: home page |