Bright and Clear Tolls the Little Bell
Oct 10th, 2009 by oldfogey
Another evocative choral sound - and a quite extraordinary one. A Russian folk song, sung by a tenor (anonymous) in an almost impossible high falsetto across a ground of deep basses. It’s like a distant animal cry, a wailing carried on the wind across the endless Russian steppes. There are moments when the voices of the other tenors straining into falsetto too move up towards his, and surround him like a flock of starlings. Utterly strange and haunting.
It is sung by the Don Cossack Choir conducted by Serge Jaroff, recorded almost fifty years ago.
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