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CD-review: Joep Franssens
02.05.2008"Franssens is about emotion and spirituality, and there’s nothing wrong with that” -
says ‘jvs’ in the Dagblad van het Noorden, 2 May 2008, about the CD “Harmony of the Spheres”, with the Nederlands Kamerkoor, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and Netherlands Radio Choir conducted by Gerd Albrecht and Tõnu Kaljuste, music by Joep Franssens (Magnificat, Roaring Rotterdam and Harmony of the Spheres).
The works featured on this CD (recordings from the late nineties) are very approachable and melodious. They are also beautifully sung and played by the Nederlands Kamerkoor, the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and Netherlands Radio Choir. But unfortunately the slowly meandering, minimalist music does occasionally become bombastic and kitsch, which results in the intended emotional impact being destroyed. [...]
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