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| ARTIST: | Palestrina, Turner, Pro Cantione Antiqua |
| CATEGORY: | Music |
| MANUFACTURER: | Hyperion UK |
| FEATURES: | Import |
| TYPE: | Early Music / Chant, Classical, Classical Composers, Classical Music |
| MEDIA: | Audio CD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 034571150956 |
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Read Steven Guy's Review I love the review by Steven Guy, which follows below! The list he offers of glorious music could only be improved by adding Monteverdi's Selva Morale e Spirituale (and possibly a few post-Beethoven items...). Take his advice! Buy it!
As deep and as wide as an ocean
This is a great work. Perhaps it is one of the greatest musical masterpieces in human history? It is certainly "up there" with Machaut's 'Messe de Notre Dame', Ockeghem's 'Requiem', Brumel's 'Missa et ecce terræ motus', Lassus's 'Penitential Psalms', Monteverdi's 'Vespro della Beata Vergine' and 8th book of madrigals, Schütz' 'Psalmen Davids' & three 'Symphoniæ Sacræ', Biber's 'Mystery Sonatas', Corelli's 'Concerti Grossi', Bach's Passions & B Minor Mass, Mozart's da Ponte operas and Beethoven's symphonies.
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>This work is sung by a group of soloists - ten men - rather than a choir. The result is a very much more intimate "chamber" performance of this work. The singers are all very good, with countertenors James Bowman, Charles Brett and Robin Tyson, singing the highest cantus lines.
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>You need to spend time with this music. Not an hour here or there. You NEED to spend years with this music. It isn't music for immediate gratification or titillation. It is music of the most passionate, deep, thoughtful, beautiful and involved kind. Palestrina didn't write this music to "please the masses", he wrote it for the intellectual stimulation of the intellectuals and intellectual faithful of his time, or so it seems to me. The Canticum Canticorum is NOT for philistines, New Agers and people who want "classy Renaissance dinner party music" to impress their friends.
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>This is music which stands outside of time and space. You want a description of the music on this recording? I can't give one, nor will I try. This is, in many ways, what used to be known as "Absolute Music".
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>Wanna know what that is? Look it up!
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>A few final words: this recording is sublime, beautiful, passionate, deep and definitive.
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>There, I hope that is enough for you!
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>Now go out and goddam well buy this disc! Okay? >;-/