One, before the onslaught of naysayers who say that early music was a fad and that before the passage of novelty and is entering its decline and to those that dictate the sentence of extinction for the disk, as we know it day, you feel extremely happy on days like today. And that is because, with daily visits to the home page must Diverdi , finds that: nine of the ten albums that are among the most sold under the field of early music. There are some recordings that we label as most sellers but the variety of selection and the huge number of items is a happy news. In this list-topping sales are-the last record of La Venexiana dedicated to Monteverdi Scherzi Musicali. The number two is for the new album from English Concerto (Emilio Moreno), recording dedicated to the tune of the century. Thirdly this medley of songs of minstrels that Savall just reprinted. The fourth is to I Barocchisti (Diego Fasolis) and Duilio Galfetti in a record of violin concertos recently appeared in the Vivaldi Edition -. For the fifth disc is reserved for Vespers at the Imperial Court of Vienna, Arsys Bourgogne and L'Arpeggiata -a disc with works by Fux and Sances and others. To find the Dahpnis & Chloé de Boismortier, with Le Concert Spirituel (Hervé Niquet), we have to go to sixth place, in a recent reissue of this album. Following this, in seventh place, we have an anthology of works of the Renaissance, with authors such as Ockeghem, Desprez, Isaac, De la Rue, which revolves around deplore and lament, sung by British all The Clerks' Group (Edward Wickham). Eighth place, occupied by a work of Rimsky-Korsakov, is the only music not present with pre-XVIII. For the ninth since the last record we have of Alexis Kossenko traverse, accompanied by the Polish Arte dei Suonatori , the second album devoted to the transverse flute concertos of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. And for the last spot has been the last record breakers Graindelavoix (Björn Schmelzer), with a repertoire dedicated to the cult of Mary Magdalene in the early sixteenth century.
certainly great satisfaction to see how people still appear to be in this country that appreciates the good-but rare, and consume these products. Be it for many years ...
For those who are dedicated to a greater or lesser extent, to contemporary choral music, say the name of Eric Whitacre is very, very much. American and even thirties, your reputation among the choristers from around the world and lovers of contemporary choral music, without necessarily having to interpret it, which also are many-is brutal, and clearly demonstrate the number of visits and discharges obtained in official website, myspace , Facebook profile, personal blog and countless entries that appear on search engines, shows that it is a global author who has also managed to use the most positive manner possible new technologies to artistic creation.
Trained at the University of Nevada and The Juilliard School, in these last under the foster care of John Corigliano and David Diamond, "this girl is world renowned for his choral works, although he has written and arranged works for various configurations, such as brass ensemble, string ensembles , bands, orchestra and even an electronic opera entitled Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings , in which, on John Milton's epic poem, makes a recreation through electronic music, ambient, trance and techno. However, his reputation has been forged through his choral works, real gems of the genre, which shows the great heir of Renaissance polyphony, the great choir of romanticism and the best of contemporary schooling. Whitacre has become famous through a very recognizable style, some compare it with that of Morten Lauridsen's great too, although somewhat more novel techniques, "style that has forged based on the use of seventh and ninth chords, with or without suspension of second-and fourth-harmonic series, chord inversions, progressions series ... a long series of techniques that have resulted, even in what has been termed "Whitacre chords, combined with a stunning use of rhythm, using unusual patterns and penchant for mixing and alteration. Beautiful melodies, captivating harmonies and manages to create eerie harmonics, eventually create an atmosphere of peace and quiet really apabuyante-all summing lot, obviously.
Well, the end of this entry today is, apart from to name the figure and extraordinary quality of this composer is none other than make a comparison between the two albums they spend so monograph, the content to the work of this master. The first appeared in 2002 and released under the U.S. label Arsis Audio, entitled The Complete A Cappella Works 1991-2001 and is led by Brigham Young University Singers , Led by Ronald Staheli. The second in "discord" is the album titled Cloudburst and Other Choral Works , an album appeared on the English label Hyperion in 2006 and is starring Polyphony and Stephen Layton address . Both discs have the tremendous quality of being devoted entirely to the teacher and choral work but have a very high number of matching pieces, the first containing a book and the second three works that does not contain the other disk. Note that two separate disks are really well played and the singing of both sets is excellent, but the benefits of one of them make the other is overshadowed.
Here is my final comparative analysis and input a sample of three parts, in separate versions-first and then the BYU-Polyphony: Sleep (one of his most known and interpreted. Wonderful) Cloudburst (a works very unique, colorful and chilling) and "When David Heard (his true masterpiece and a monument coral of all time):
Ultimately, Polyphony stands as the most appropriate choice-of-overwhelmingly , as happens with many other contemporary composers. In its ranks, several of England's most renowned singers in the interpretation of Renaissance polyphony -View is to associate those names, automatically, large groups of that repertoire, and that together with voice quality and craftsmanship of the master in these LIDES Layton, make them the best choir in the world in the interpretation of Whitacre, Lauridsen, Pärt, Tavener, MacMillan, Jackson-his last-performed and recorded composer, Rutter ... in view of a server and with the result that his discography offers. PS Another reason in favor of the version of Polyphony, although not listed in the comparison, is making the disc sound-something always necessary in a disc of classical music, but even more, if possible, on a disk in a chorus is facing the whole recording with their sound quite limited at times, albeit limited at will-quite mediocre in the case of Hyperion Arsis and noteworthy.
Eric Whitacre (1970). Sleep Album: The Complete A Cappella Works 1991-2001 Brigham Young University Singers - Ronald Staheli 2002 Arsis Audio Eric Whitacre (1970). Sleep Album: Cloudburst and Other Choral Works Polyphony - Stephen Layton Hyperion 2006
Eric Whitacre (1970). Cloudburst Álbum: The Complete A Cappella Works 1991-2001 Brigham Young University Singers - Ronald Staheli Arsis Audio 2002 Eric Whitacre (1970). Cloudburst Álbum: Cloudburst and other choral works Polyphony - Stephen Layton Hyperion 2006 Eric Whitacre (1970). When David heard Álbum: The Complete A Cappella Works 1991-2001 Brigham Young University Singers - Ronald Staheli Arsis Audio 2002 Eric Whitacre (1970). When David Heard Album: Cloudburst and Other Choral Works Polyphony - Stephen Layton Hyperion 2006
