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05.28.2008 04:33 AM |
Scattered Rhymes: Tarik O'Regan - Guillaume De Machaut - Gavin Bryars
(Orlando Consort - Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir - Paul Hiller)
This is just wonderful - Guillaume De Machaut was a poet and composer who lived in Medieval France. He wrote the first mass which can be attributed to a single composer - "Messe de Nostre Dame". This CD is a recording of this mass by the Estonian Philharmonic Choir, but it also contains modern neo-classical pieces composed or arranged by Tarik O'Regan and Gavin Bryans (who played with Tony Oxley and Derek Bailey at one point). All the modern pieces use De Machaut's mass as a deperature point, harmony-wise but also poetically as well. O'Reagan's Scattered Rhymes is particularly amazing for its complex, intertwining choral soundscapes.
Check it out - it's on harmonia mundi.
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