Mon, 27 Feb 2006
Contemporary and Medieval
various, All the ends of the earth
contemporary and medieval music
Choir of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Geoffrey Webber
LP, Signum Classics
The idea here is that some contemporary music is inspired
by that of the medieval. This particular movement started off
as a reaction to the sometimes bombastic Romantics and perhaps
has as its real root, a search for more tranquility in a
noisy world.
The composers range from Anonymous from c. 1000 to Judith Weir,
James Weeks, Bayan Northcott, John Dunstaple, Gabriel Jackson,
and a slew more Anonymous's from the 14th and 15th centuries.
It is nicely concieved and put together and very nicely performed
by the Gonville and Caius (pronounced "keys") choir and somehow
avoids the aura of new-age krankiness that sometimes goes with
this sort of thing.
(Baron K)
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