{"id":50987,"date":"2024-12-20T15:05:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T14:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/91e76d6f-d8d6-4af6-b26d-94ff3eafbddf"},"modified":"2025-01-03T16:09:21","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T15:09:21","slug":"review-the-salvage-men-eric-ericson-chamber-choir","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/rss_feed\/review-the-salvage-men-eric-ericson-chamber-choir\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Salvage Men (Eric Ericson Chamber Choir)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By <\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Friday, 20 December 2024 at 14:05 PM<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html> <head\/> <body> <p><strong>Jeff Beal<\/strong><br\/> The Salvage Men; plus works by Barber, Daniel Nelson and Eric Whitacre<br\/> Eric Ericson Chamber Choir\/Fredrik Malmberg<br\/><em>BIS BIS-2599\u00a0\u00a0\u00a057:45 mins\u00a0<\/em><\/p> <figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"> <audio controls=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/c02.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2025\/01\/CHORAL-Jeff-Beal-The-Salvage-Men-Age.mp3\"\/> <\/figure> <h6 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Clip: Jeff Beal: The Salvage Men \u2013 Age (Eric Ericson Chamber Choir)<\/h6> <p>The Eric Ericson Chamber Choir are justly acclaimed as one of the world\u2019s top choirs and this outstanding new release highlights their many strengths. Featuring four warmly accessible modern works, this is an album of terrific vitality which showcases the choir\u2019s gorgeous breadth of timbre and precise sense of ensemble.<\/p> <ul class=\"wp-block-list\"> <li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/artists\/the-sixteen\">Meet Britiain&#8217;s happiest choir&#8230;<\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/articles\/five-best-contemporary-choral-works\">Five of the best contemporary choral works<\/a><\/li> <\/ul> <p>Jeff Beal\u2019s\u00a0<em>The Salvage Men<\/em>\u00a0(2014) explores themes of pain and transformation, and was composed after Beal found himself living with a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis. Beal is best known for his film and TV scores, but this richly contemplative choral work finds him equally comfortable in the concert hall. The work opens with an affecting setting of a passage from Oscar Wilde\u2019s\u00a0<em>De Profundis<\/em>, followed by settings of taut, beautiful poems by American poet Kay Ryan. As Ryan notes, \u2018It isn\u2019t ever delicate to live\u2019, and Beal\u2019s restless harmonic language offers a nuanced sense of redemption that similarly resists the sentimental.<\/p> <ul class=\"wp-block-list\"> <li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/articles\/best-pieces-music-inspired-american-folk-tunes\">The best pieces of music inspired by American folk tunes<\/a><\/li> <li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/articles\/songs-about-america\">Songs about America<\/a><\/li> <\/ul> <p>Other highlights include a wonderfully alert account of Samuel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.classical-music.com\/features\/composers\/samuel-barber\">Barber<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<em>Reincarnations<\/em>\u00a0(1939-40), which sets texts by the Irish poet James Stephens. Here the choir display a remarkable sense of ensemble, notably in the bell-like clarity of attack heard in the exuberant song of celebration, \u2018Mary Hynes\u2019. The choir is on equally fine form for Daniel Nelson\u2019s\u00a0<em>The New Colossus<\/em>, a setting of Emma Lazarus\u2019s text inscribed at the base of the Statue of Liberty which Nelson explores with commendable nuance, incorporating both blazing sonic force and a sense of tiptoeing hesitancy. Glorious accounts of two appealing Eric Whitacre works complete the selection.\u00a0<em>Kate Wakeling<\/em><\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Published: Friday, 20 December 2024 at 14:05 PM Jeff Beal The Salvage Men; plus works by Barber, Daniel Nelson and Eric Whitacre Eric Ericson Chamber Choir\/Fredrik MalmbergBIS BIS-2599\u00a0\u00a0\u00a057:45 mins\u00a0 Clip: Jeff Beal: The Salvage Men \u2013 Age (Eric Ericson Chamber Choir) The Eric Ericson Chamber Choir are justly acclaimed as one of the world\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":50988,"template":"","categories":[1,82,19],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"2"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2025\/01\/review-the-salvage-men-eric-ericson-chamber-choir.jpg",900,900,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2025\/01\/review-the-salvage-men-eric-ericson-chamber-choir-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2025\/01\/review-the-salvage-men-eric-ericson-chamber-choir-300x300.jpg",300,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2025\/01\/review-the-salvage-men-eric-ericson-chamber-choir-768x768.jpg",768,768,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2025\/01\/review-the-salvage-men-eric-ericson-chamber-choir.jpg",800,800,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2025\/01\/review-the-salvage-men-eric-ericson-chamber-choir.jpg",900,900,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2025\/01\/review-the-salvage-men-eric-ericson-chamber-choir.jpg",900,900,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By Published: Friday, 20 December 2024 at 14:05 PM Jeff Beal The Salvage Men; plus works by Barber, Daniel Nelson and Eric Whitacre Eric Ericson Chamber Choir\/Fredrik MalmbergBIS BIS-2599\u00a0\u00a0\u00a057:45 mins\u00a0 Clip: Jeff Beal: The Salvage Men \u2013 Age (Eric Ericson Chamber Choir) The Eric Ericson Chamber Choir are justly acclaimed as one of the world\u2019s&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/50987"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcmusicmagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}