Jason Victor Serinus reviews Cappella SF and Ragnar Bohlin‘s Timeless: Ten Centuries of Music in the August 2018 issue of Stereophile Magazine.
“Happily, some very fine recordings have come my way in the last six months. … If forced to single out one from the crowd, I’d grab Timeless: Ten Centuries of Music by Cappella SF, a 24-voice choir conducted by its founder, Grammy-winner Ragnar Bohlin… Timeless begins with Columba aspect, by the 12th-century Benedictine abbess Hildegard von Bingen, and concludes with a Shaker hymn. Along the way are works by everyone from Machaut and Gesualdo to Britten, Pärt, and Whitacre. … There’s a pious, heartfelt sincerity to these perfectly enunciated, gorgeously sung performances of music whose depth and variety engage both mind and spirit. Cappella SF’s impeccable musicianship is presented in the best possible sound. Captured in San Francisco’s St. Ignatius Church by David v.R. Bowles… the blend of direct sound and natural resonance strikes me as ideal.…he worked under executive producer Carol Rosenberger to produce, engineer, edit, and master a program that is of demonstration class. Bowles and Rosenberger deserve kudos for the naturalism of the results.”
See the full review in the August 2018 issue of Stereophile Magazine
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