COMPOSERS: Adams,Rachmaninov
LABELS: Telarc
WORKS: Adams: Harmonium; Rachmaninov: The Bells
PERFORMER: Atlanta SO & Chorus/Robert Shaw
CATALOGUE NO: CD-80365
Shaw’s home territory here: as bright and chirrupy a Bells as you could wish for, show-casing the divine Renée Fleming. Harmonium’s thrumming textures are well matched with Atlanta’s unmistakably American choral tone, humming, heady and glowing. William Whitehead