classical music: Paul Hillier     classical music:     Paul Hillier      Scattered Rhymes Tarik O' Regan, Guillaume de Machaut, ... Harmonia Mundi, 2008 Stunning and exhilarating! Wow! I guarantee most people will not have heard a disc like this before. The Machaut is sublime, gritty, unexpected and just excellently performed here by the Orlando Consort. However it's Tarik O'Regan's 'Scattered Rhymes', which opens the disc that will blow you ...             Crossing the Stone Kevin Horsley, Laurence Cottle, ... Sony, 2003 A Towering Musical Achievement While biographies disguised as reviews are tiresome, some background is in order, in this case. At the age of 23, Catrin Finch has been playing the harp for 18 years. She was appearing on British television and with major orchestras by the time she was 10, and was ...             Perotin / The Hilliard Ensemble Perotin, Anonymous, ... Ecm Records, 2000 The Best Perotin Recording. Perotin was a 12th century composer in Paris at the Cathedral of Notre Dame. We know almost nothing about him. Perotin (which is a diminutive of Peter) is described by a mid-thirteenth century student identified today as Anonymous IV who states that Perotin was the ...             Early American Choral Music, Vol. 2 Anonymous, William Billings, ... Hmf Classical Exp., 2002 The Better of the two I have both disc in the series. I liked the music on this disc much more than the first. The selections seem more focused and the sounds are much clearer. Also, the particular pieces fit better together. I love the sound of this group and hope they make more in the ...             Mozart: Vespers K. 321 & 339/Ave Verum Corpus; King's College Choir, Cambridge; Hilliard Ensemble Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Stephen Cleobury, ... EMI Classics, 1989 Elegant performances of Mozart's Vespers plus... Mozart composed the two Vesper Services ('Vesperae de Dominica' K321 and 'Vesperae solennes de confessore'K339) in 1779 and 1780 for performances in the Salzburg cathedral and so it is very fitting that this lovely recording is performed in the cathedral-like setting ...             Stockhausen: Stimmung [Hybrid SACD] Karlheinz Stockhausen, Paul Hillier, ... Harmonia Mundi Fr., 2007 Not music as we know it, Jim... The only works by Stockhausen that I'm familiair with are Mantra, Gesang der Junglinge and Kontakte, so I'm by no means an expert. And the Theatre of Voices I know mainly through their renditions of works by Arvo Part, so again: not an expert. Frank Zappa once ...             Early American Choral Music, Vol. 1 William Billings, Paul Hillier Hmf Classical Exp., 2001 How well do you like this kind of music? I ended up ordering this CD, as well as Vol. 2, and "Make A Joyful Noise: American Psalmody." I thought the quality was excellent on all three, but I wanted to say that if you're not sure how well you like this kind of music, I would recommend the American Psalmody CD ...             Machaut: Messe de Notre Dame / The Hilliard Ensemble Guillaume de Machaut, The Hilliard Ensemble, ... Hyperion UK, 1993 The World of Machaut The Mediaeval Frenchman Guillaume de Machaut is one of those composers who shaped the course of musical history most significantly. He wrote some of the earliest known polyphonic pieces of vocal music, as well as writing astonishing poetry for his own semi-sacred songs ...             Josquin Desprez: Motets & Chansons Josquin Desprez, Paul Hillier, ... EMI Classics, 1997 Splendid Other reviewers have pretty much said it all-- all I can add is-- if you don't like James's voice, then don't listen to Hilliard. David James is to the Hilliard Ensemble what The Edge is to U2. ;)             Arvo Pärt: Da Pacem Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Paul Hillier Harmonia Mundi Fr., 2006 Transcendental Purity meets Slavonic Psalms Mastery Many things have been said about Arvo Part. Nevertheless, I will venture some words about this CD. Part's compositions evoke a meditative, deeply thoughtful atmosphere. When I played this CD for the first time, my visceral reaction was to close my eyes and let the ...             Baltic Voices 1 / Kreek Sandstrom / Rautavaara / Part / Vasks Arvo Part, Einojuhani Rautavaara, ... Harmonia Mundi Fr., 2003 Ethereally amazing Many composers from Baltic countries round out this incredible compact disc, sung by a collection of excellent voices. The vocal blending is tremendous, despite isolation of the voices over several parts in, at times, serious dissonance. The music is so haunting, I ...             Arvo Pärt: De Profundis Arvo Part, Paul Hillier, ... Harmonia Mundi Fr., 1997 Power and Grace Hillier's Theatre of Voices gives an absolutely wonderful rendering of Pärt's work. The music is amazing, recalling medieval choral music as well as contemporary ideas in musical composition. Pärt manages to touch on a wide range of feeling throughout all of these ...             Arvo Pärt: Passio Michael George, Catherine Duckett, ... Ecm Records, 2000 One of my favorite religious pieces ever One is never sure what to expect when listening to contemporary music. I am into contemporary art music of all types (Ligeti, Nono, Schoenberg, etc.). I saw that Pärt was popular (this cd was displayed in stores that I go to), so I decided to get a hold of this cd. I ...             Proverb/Nagoya Marimbas/City Life Jay Elfenbein, Jeanne LeBlanc, ... Nonesuch, 1996 Composer-journalist's observations become chilling prophecy For the past twelve years Reich has labored in the shadow of his unassailable masterpiece, "Different Trains." Both its concision and its monumentality made that sampling exposition of Holocaust testimony the standard for the work Reich has accurately if immodestly ...             Steve Reich 1965-1995 Hugo Munday, Donald Palma, ... Nonesuch, 1997 Essential The term "essential" gets thrown about too much. And heck, the claim that certain words get thrown about too much gets thrown about too much. But here is a collection that really *is* essential to understanding the nature of a whole shift not just in classical ...          products you might be interested in   search for classical music cambridge, profundis, rautavaara, sandstrom, scattered, stockhausen      toavi.com    web randomly chosen book: VITE DI UOMINI ILLUSTRI DEL SECOLO XV