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2019-12-04 11:30:36
Rating: 0 Advent Carols from King’s College LondonThe Choir of King’s College, London/Joseph FortDelphian DCD34226 A beautifully atmospheric recording of the Advent service from King’s College, London. Don’t miss the new pieces, especially George Benjamin’s and Kerensa Briggs’s. The life of composer George Benjamin Christmas The Gesualdo Six/Owain ParkHyperion CDA68299 A delightful album by an all-male a cappella group is hard to come by – all too often they’re po-faced or schmaltzy; but this is neither. An elegant blend of old and new. In dulci jubilo Harmonia […]
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2019-04-24 04:03:00
Eternal Notre Dame de Paris | Franz Liszt: Via Crucis – Maîtrise Notre Dame de Paris, David Selig, Nicole Corti (Download 44.1kHz/16bit)
Liszt's position as a composer for the Church has always been controversial. The paradox that the most modern composer of the age, the supporter of the revolutionary ideals of 1789, 1830 and 1848, ended up writing music for an institution regarded as a bastion of everything conservative and reactionary, has led to a questioning of Liszt's motives. With the rapidly advancing secularization of culture, Liszt was seen as disillusioned, and his decision to take minor orders in 1865 was considered a startling about-turn for one so worldly.In fact, Liszt wrote sacred music with reform in mind. The dismal state of church music in the first half of the nineteenth century, when it was common to hear opera cabalettas sung to liturgical words, encouraged him to go back to plainsong and the music of Palestrina for inspiration.Via Crucis is an extraordinary work. It is a devotion describing the journey of Christ […]
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