★★★★★
There are two major names on the block regarding male vocal ensembles: San Francisco's Chanticleer and Minneapolis' Cantus. The latter releases A Harvest Home , a collection of Autumn pastoral affairs celebrating the traditional season of Thanksgiving. This follows last year's release of Songs of a Czech: Dvorak and Janacek for Men's Voices (Cantus, 2013), a fine if narrowly focused affair...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2014-09-28
★★★★★
There are two major names on the block regarding male vocal ensembles: San Francisco's Chanticleer and Minneapolis' Cantus. The latter releases A Harvest Home , a collection of Autumn pastoral affairs celebrating the traditional season of Thanksgiving. This follows last year's release of Songs of a Czech: Dvorak and Janacek for Men's Voices (Cantus, 2013), a fine if narrowly focused affair...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2014-09-30
★★★★★
If you like Spirituals sung by a male choir, you won't do much better than the performances on this excellent program by the Minneapolis/St. Paul-based professional chamber ensemble Cantus. Although there are only 12 voices here, their collective sound has a fullness and richness often lacking in larger groups...
- www.classicstoday.com
2010-08-23
★★★★★
Choral music lovers will find a wealth of interesting and unusual repertoire here, expertly performed by the professional, all-male, Minnesota-based vocal chamber ensemble Cantus, recorded in lively, vibrant, detailed sound. Even the more familiar songs ("Danny Boy", "Loch Lomond") in this profoundly eclectic mix drawn from all over the world--Chinese, Georgian, Irish, Indian, Inuit, Zulu, African-American, Venezuelan--are presented in new or less-common arrangements...
- www.classicstoday.com
2010-08-23
★★★★★
The male vocal ensemble Cantus offers a program based on songs of the sea (or in one case, a Great Lake). It's as diverse a collection as you can imagine, ranging from Charles Stanford's cycle Songs of the Sea Op. 91 and Amy Beach's Sea Fever, to two significant Veljo Tormis pieces, Peter Schickele's rousing Jonah's Song, a world-premiere by Edie Hill, and arrangements of Sting's Valparaiso and Gordon Lightfoot's Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald...
- www.classicstoday.com
2010-08-23
★★★★★
There are many styles of choral singing around the world, and what we get from the professional all-male Minnesota-based ensemble Cantus is as distinctly American as that term can be defined: free use of vibrato, a certain interpretive homogeneity (not a lot of difference between Sibelius and Josquin), and an exuberant sincerity that informs everything, governed by an obvious love of beautiful sound and warm expression...
- www.classicstoday.com
2010-08-23
★★★★★
The focus here is definitely on "joy", which probably should be written in capital letters, for these performances and arrangements by the excellent Cantus male vocal ensemble are as exuberant and dynamic as you will hear from any group, especially in Christmas music. (For a review of the first volume, type Q8385 in Search Reviews...
- www.classicstoday.com
2010-08-23
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