Editorial Product Review: essential recording:It would be impossible to adequately describe the inherent haunting beauty of Perotin's music, or to fully detail its far-reaching influence in latter-12th-century France. The opening 'Viderunt omnes' is a perfect illustration of the surprising vitality and highly charged sense of forward motion that can be obtained with relatively simple rhythmic impulses and harmonic devices. The male voices of the Hilliard Ensemble generate an electrifying resonance that vibrates everything in the room that's not solid or nailed down. You can literally feel this music, ringing with natural harmonics and set ...
Editorial Product Review: essential recording:The Hilliard Ensemble bathes these vital vocal works by Josquin in a Mediterranean light: clear, warm, and brilliant. Josquin was a northerner who, like so many other composers of the Renaissance, descended to Italy to pursue his career. The singers bring to life the composer's marriage of the Flemish preoccupation with technique and the southern instinct toward lyricism. This is an extraordinary disc. --Joshua Cody
Editorial Product Review: essential recording:'What is this music?' Fundamentally, it's an exploration of what happens when an improvisatory instrumental voice (saxophone) is placed into the world of early vocal music, which has elements of both improvisation and formal structure. In reality, it's an adventure in which the four male voices of the Hilliard Ensemble travel the 14th- and 15th-century territory of Morales and Dufay, visit the 12th century of Perotin, and roam even earlier ages of plainchant, accompanied by the always sensitive and tasteful, often astonishing, saxophone improvisations of jazz master Jan Garbarek. Sometimes, ...
Editorial Product Review: :The brief opening piece for chorus on this new release, 'Da Pacem Domine,' is based on a 9th century Gregorian work and has the usual, familiar--and very beautiful--Pärt-ian characteristics: a soft, endless stream of easy tritones and harmonies that make this plea for peace immensely moving. The major work, Lamentate, is scored for large orchestra and solo piano--a very unusual combination for Pärt. Even his fans will be surprised. In ten brief sections, it begins with a quiet drum roll, immediately followed by horn calls. There are forte explosions for full orchestra ...
Editorial Product Review: :The brief opening piece for chorus on this new release, 'Da Pacem Domine,' is based on a 9th century Gregorian work and has the usual, familiar--and very beautiful--Pärt-ian characteristics: a soft, endless stream of easy tritones and harmonies that make this plea for peace immensely moving. The major work, Lamentate, is scored for large orchestra and solo piano--a very unusual combination for Pärt. Even his fans will be surprised. In ten brief sections, it begins with a quiet drum roll, immediately followed by horn calls. There are forte explosions for full orchestra ...
Editorial Product Review: 's Best of 2001:In 1994, explains the booklet that accompanies Morimur, Professor Helga Thoene made the surprising discovery that the monumental 'Ciaccona' from Bach's Partita in D minor for solo violin was built around various chorale themes hidden in the music. From the texts of these 'secret' chorales and other symbolic musical devices, she deduced that the 'Ciaccona' was an epitaph for Bach's wife, Maria Barbara. The revelation might have remained an intriguing (and touching) footnote to Bach scholarship if baroque violinist Christoph Poppen hadn't had the bright idea of taking Professor ...
Editorial Product Review: :What is this music? Fundamentally, it's an exploration of what happens when an improvisatory instrumental voice (saxophone) is placed into the world of early vocal music--which has elements of both improvisation and formal structure. In reality, it's an adventure in which the four male voices of the Hilliard Ensemble travel the 14th- and 15th-century territory of Morales and Dufay, visit the 12th century of Perotin, and roam even earlier ages of plainchant, accompanied by the always sensitive and tasteful--and often astonishing--saxophone improvisations of jazz master Jan Garbarek. Sometimes, these new melodies simply ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:CD-package includes 28-page booklet with an introduction by David Skinner in English and German and all sung texts. 'If clarity is a virtue, these people are saints', wrote France's Nouvel Oberservateur about the Hilliard Ensemble when their interpretation of Bach's motets was released in spring 2007. 'Never have these shining works sounded more beautiful' commented Die Zeit while the Guardian observed a 'supremely musical' rendering, 'overflowing with food for thought'. Last November the ensemble received a certificate of honor for their artistic achievements by the jury of Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik, ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:CD-package includes 28-page booklet with an introduction by David Skinner in English and German and all sung texts. 'If clarity is a virtue, these people are saints', wrote France's Nouvel Oberservateur about the Hilliard Ensemble when their interpretation of Bach's motets was released in spring 2007. 'Never have these shining works sounded more beautiful' commented Die Zeit while the Guardian observed a 'supremely musical' rendering, 'overflowing with food for thought'. Last November the ensemble received a certificate of honor for their artistic achievements by the jury of Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik, ...
Editorial Product Review: :Hearing or performing music comes closest in the range of human activity to a visceral connection to the past. As long as we have notation and knowledge of how to interpret it, we can effectively experience something like our ancestors did when they sang the same music. Of course, our 20th-century sensibilities and knowledge--or lack thereof--prevent us from sharing identical responses, but as with the music on this disc, when we hear it we are in some way transported to another place. We know a completely different sound world from our own; ...
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