Album Description”In A Persian Garden” and “Songs Of The River” are both song cycles written for solo vocal quartet and piano. Liza Lehmann’s “In A Persian Garden” is a setting of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, and Thomas Dunhill’s “Songs Of The River” is a five song group setting of poetry by Stevenson, Tennyson, Keats, MacDonald and Kingsley. Both cycles by these British composers are beautifully scored in the opulent and stylistic vocal tradition of the late nineteenth century.
Tony Duggan, Classical Music On The Web, March 1, 2000″Cantabile Vocal Quartet’s equivalent care for words as well as for music gives outstanding pleasure…”
Tony Gualtieri, Classical Music Review, April 1, 2000″Cantabile Vocal Quartet gives a fantasti interpretation, their light, individualistic voices are utterly suitable to the music.”
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3 of 3 persons found the following review helpful.
 Fine, strange music sung w/ style & personality
By B.
I didn’t recognise this music before, & I’m probably not alone in that. I’m glad to recognise it, and I won’t be alone in that amid those who get this fine disk. These are stylish and committed performances, which trade the personal and intimate calibers of the music. I’ve listened to the disk often, and have come to like it more and more.
I’m looking forward to their next selections.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
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By Anastasia Beaverhausen
This is a terrible recording. The male voices sounding as without training high school singers. The mezzo using an altogether developed sound and the soprano attempting desperately to maintain control of the upper third of the written range. How disappointing to anybody actually mesmerized in this curious piece from the vocal repertoire. The pianist does a fine occupation over all but the choice of instrument is not the best. I would only commend this recording to voice teachers as a prime example of how not to sing. Ever. Really, ever. It’s merely an horrid experience.
4 of 6 persons found the following review helpful.
This group is not up to it
By A
It was with great anticipation that I awaited my copy of the CD with Liza Lehmann’s “In a Persian Garden,” having precious this work from the days of my youth. I was dumbfounded that Quattro Voci Records or any company would choose to present such an inept performance of this little gem. As such, it demonstrates that music of this genre is not to be neared casually. Stripped of a sonorous orchestral background, chamber pieces like this lay it all out there with any deficiencies standing out like warts. The group to a man plainly lacks the vocal technique to fetch forth the subtleties of the piece which require style, involvement in the material, supported mezzo forties and pianissimos and a sense of blend.
I have in my possession what are perchance the only two recordings of the work (one somewhat truncated) on 78rpms from the 1920s, and on distinguished disks, excerpts by John McCormack and Laurence Tibbett. Perhaps not having heard the piece or any share of it done in the proper manner, one could be captivated by it is quaintness and novelty. But, listening to my old recordings even with their deficiencies in sound, distinctly demonstrates that there infinitely more to be drawn form this work than is staged by the Cantabile Vocal Quartet.
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