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ID: NMCD114 (EAN: 5023363011426) | 1 CD | DDD Ausgefolgt: 2005
- LABEL:
- NMC
- Kolektion:
- Vocal Collection
- Subkolektion:
- Ensemble
- Komponisten:
- FOX, Christopher
- Ensembles:
- EXAUDI
- Dirigenten:
- WEEKS, James
- Andere Infos:
Exciting new vocal ensemble EXAUDI's second recording for NMC features choral works by Christopher Fox with the common theme of Puritanism, Liberty and dissent. American Choruses is one of the composer’s earliest works, exploring his relationship to an American tradition which includes Ives, Cage and the poetry of Walt Whitman. In A Glimpse of Sion’s Glory, conflicting lines voice the idealisms of protestors including the histoical Levellers' movement and John Milton; and the monolithic Missouri Harmony for solo organ evokes the meditative aspect of Shaker worship. Rendered Account, setting Ian Duhig’s lively political verse on the nature of walls and boundaries, and Open the Gate, with its basis of plainsong, complete the disc.
Disc 1
1 EXAUDI/ James Weeks, director Open the Gate 2'05
2 EXAUDI/ James Weeks, director A Glimpse of Sion's Glory 11'28
3 Benjamin Bayl, organ The Missouri Harmony 16'48
4 EXAUDI/ James Weeks, director Rendered Account 5'09
5 EXAUDI/ James Weeks, director American Choruses: 1 - Walt Whitman 3'11
6 EXAUDI/ James Weeks, director American Choruses: 2 - Song 4'55
7 EXAUDI/ James Weeks, director American Choruses: 3 - America 4'26
8 EXAUDI/ James Weeks, director American Choruses: 4 - Transcription 21'14
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"Christopher Fox is 50 this year, and it is hard to think of a better birthday present than this marvellous disc... Exaudi traverse the demands of this music with ease. Recommended."
Performance *****/ Sound ****
BBC Music Magazine 2005
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