{"id":13675,"date":"2014-11-13T09:25:59","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T14:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/news\/article.php?ArticleID=13675"},"modified":"2019-02-18T13:20:11","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T18:20:11","slug":"13675_msu-chorale-featured-in-nj-symphony-recording","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/john-j-cali-school-of-music\/2014\/11\/13\/13675_msu-chorale-featured-in-nj-symphony-recording\/","title":{"rendered":"Montclair State University Chorale featured in NJ Symphony Recording"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Jersey Symphony Orchestra released a live recording of Verdi\u2019s <em>Requiem<\/em>, conducted by Music Director Jacques Lacombe. Featured artists include Montclair State University Chorale, Heather J. Buchanan, director, and soloists Marianne Fiset, soprano, Janara Kellerman, mezzo-soprano, Russell Thomas, tenor and Peter Volpe, bass.<\/p>\n<p>In April, <em>The Star-Ledger<\/em> hailed the Orchestra\u2019s<em> Requiem<\/em> performance: \u201cFrom the first notes, the rendition effectively conveyed the work\u2019s gravitas, with deep, rich weighty sound in the opening halting chords that created a feeling of being stunned by divine power and mortality \u2026 [Soprano Marianne Fiset], the chorus and the orchestra mustered a shattering final climactic outpouring of sound evoking the cosmic before returning to a simple, unison chant, taking the work touchingly back to a humble, human realm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Superconductor<\/em> also praised the NJSO\u2019s performance of the masterwork: \u201cWhat is needed [to perform Verdi\u2019s Requiem] is an absolute, unshakable faith in the power of voice and orchestra to deliver dramatic thrills equivalent of any staged opera \u2026 Leading the struggle was Mr. Lacombe, [who] brought details of this score into sharp focus, emphasizing the texture of the work and always choosing to luxuriate in the more lyric passage of the score.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Verdi\u2019s <em>Requiem<\/em>\u2014recorded April 3, 2014, at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark\u2014is the second recording the NJSO has released under the baton of Lacombe. The music director\u2019s lauded NJSO 2008 debut performance of<em> Carmina Burana <\/em>is also available on a CD released in 2010. That recording garnered a 10\/10 rating from Classics Today, which praised a performance \u201cso superb\u2014so lively, accurate, cleanly recorded, and handsomely played\u2014that its action-movie, apocalyptic aspects are matched by its introspective moments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For more information, see the New Jersey Symphony website at njsymphony.org\/verdiCD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Jersey Symphony Orchestra released a live recording of Verdi\u2019s Requiem, conducted by Music Director Jacques Lacombe. Featured artists include Montclair State University Chorale, Heather J. Buchanan, director, and soloists Marianne Fiset, soprano, Janara Kellerman, mezzo-soprano, Russell Thomas, tenor and Peter Volpe, bass. In April, The Star-Ledger hailed the Orchestra\u2019s Requiem performance: \u201cFrom the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/john-j-cali-school-of-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/john-j-cali-school-of-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/john-j-cali-school-of-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/john-j-cali-school-of-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/john-j-cali-school-of-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/john-j-cali-school-of-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206620,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/john-j-cali-school-of-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13675\/revisions\/206620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/john-j-cali-school-of-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/john-j-cali-school-of-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/john-j-cali-school-of-music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}