David Patrick Stearns of the Philadelphia Inquirer and Jim Cotter of WRTI’s Creatively Speaking put last week’s radio segment together with this film (just over 5 minutes). Great shots with some raw takes of Herr Christ, der einig Gotts Sohn, Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, Deo gratias, etc.
quiet yet ecstatic… hushed awe floats in every movement… sparkling beauty… tender love for the texts… The Crossing shines in shimmering timbre… [Piffaro’s] members play with sensitivity and grace… profoundly contemporary view of an ancient practice…
Hosting a weekly radio show of contemporary American music on WRTI HD-2 and on the all-classical webstream at wrti.org, I play all styles of concert music. Give a listen and let me know what you think.
Our seventh year on the radio with Discoveries from the Fleisher Collection—the first Saturday of the month we uncover (and/or rediscover) treasures from the largest lending library of orchestral performance material in the world. No kidding.
