classical music: The Hilliard Ensemble     classical music:     The Hilliard Ensemble      Officium Anonymous, Czech Anonymous, ... Ecm Records, 1999 Wow. Gregorian chant is one form of music. If you must have it in the pure form, go elsewhere. Jazz sax is another form of music. If you are offended by restraining the sax to a gentle, wistful, melodious exploration, go elsewhere. Otherwise, consider a rope: ...             Audivi Vocem Thomas Tallis, Christopher Tye, ... ECM Records, 2008 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 ...             Lamentate Arvo Part, Andrey Boreyko, ... Ecm Records, 2005 a somber lament for a world of suffering "Lamentate" reminds us that Arvo Part, the Estonian composer known as a "holy minimalist," was a modernist before he was a postmodernist. The 37-minute work opens with a bang, a great rumble from percussion and a minor-key fanfare from the horns, before subsiding into ...             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 ...             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 ...             English and Italian Renaissance Madrigals Jacques Arcadelt, Vincenzo Bellavere, ... EMI Classics, 2000 Not stilted but powerfully alive My idea of stilted is to sing these madrigals in the phony, glee-club RP style endured for so many years, that made precious, quaint curiosities of them. The Elizabethan pronunciation on this CD is an eye and ear-opener. We may appreciate how much of that speech ...             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. ;)             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 ...             Morimur Johann Sebastian Bach, countertenor David James, ... ECM Records, 2001 A Very Unique Experience "Morimur," as you can read (ad nauseum) on the rest of the page, is the product of an astonishing amount of Bach scholarship on the part of Professor Helga Thoene, a noted Bach scholar. It is important to note two things: 1) Thoene's research applies ONLY to the ...             Officium - Jan Gabarek & The Hilliard Ensemble Cristobal de Morales, Pierre de LaRue, ... ECM Records, 1994 Original, Brilliant, but Flawed I'm a big fan both of Garbarek and of "early music", so I bought this album with enthusiasm when it first came out a decade ago. I wasn't disappointed, but I do find it uneven. Garbarek was experimenting throughout the process of recording this work, and some of his ...             Arvo Pärt: Arbos Susan Bickley, Thomas Demenga, ... Ecm Records, 2000 An icy wind of delicious sadness Arvo Part creates a world where bleakness becomes almost an indulgence, and upon the first hearing of Stabat Mater you'll feel an icy wind of delicious sadness blow over your eager and expectant frown. The solo organ piece Pari Intervallo (which can also be found on ...             Palestrina: Canticum canticorum: Spiritual Madrigals Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina EMI Classics Imports, 2003 Palestrina and His Musical Pals There's good reason to suppose these erotically spiritual motets, which are far too polyphonic and too artistic for use in the Pope's service, were in fact written to be sung in the devotional gatherings initiated by (Saint) Phlip Neri in Rome in the 1560s and 1570s. ...             Miserere Arvo Part, Dennis Russell Davies, ... Ecm Records, 2000 Music for Solace, for the Soul, for Contemplation Arvo Part fills a void in the musical network of contemporary compositions. He creates much out of little, using minimal notes and phrases, repeating these with subtle variations, as though he were creating an atmosphere for Zen-like trance states. The three works ...             Guillaume de Machaut: Motets Hilliard Ensemble Ecm Records, 2004 Deserved a Grammy I understand the complaints lodged against this recording, as I similarly declared that Anonymous 4 sanitized Landini. However, I cannot say the same thing here. There have already been plenty recordings of the more raw and jaunty side of Machaut. This recording really ...             Medieval English Music English Anonymous, Gregorian Chant, ... Harmonia Mundi Fr., 1992          products you might be interested in   search for classical music canticorum, lamentate, madrigals, palestrina, renaissance, spiritual      toavi.com    web randomly chosen book: Plum Spooky (A Between-the-Numbers Novel)