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Music : Pärt: Miserere/Festina lente/Sarah was Ninety Years Old
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Pärt: Miserere/Festina lente/Sarah was Ninety Years Old from: ECM New Series List Price: £17.99 CD-Charts Price: £13.48 You Save: £4.51 (25%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0042284753920 Label: ECM New Series Manufacturer: ECM New Series Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: ECM New Series Release Date: March 24, 1993 Running Time: 66 minutes Studio: ECM New Series Sales Rank: 72604 MPN: 847539 Disc 1: Related Items: Related Items:      see moreBrowse for similar items by category:
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 Rating: - Three Masterpieces on One CDThis was the first Arvo Part CD I ever bought, and it's still one of the best. Miserere can fairly claim to be one of Part's greatest works: its soundscape is little short of awesome, and occasionally almost terrifying. It is of course also extremely beautiful and serene (especially towards the end). Festina Lente is one of his best short orchestral pieces, and compares favourably to the most well-known piece of this type, Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten. Sarah Was Ninety Years Old is a radical reworking of the 1976 piece Modus. I've heard the original (never officially released) and I can happily report that this 1990 reworking is vastly superior. Like Miserere, this is both peaceful and - when the ... Read More: Rating: - Into the abyssIf you're a fan of Part's work and haven't heard this album, buy it. You simply can't claim to have experienced what his music has to offer without having heard what is a truly unique listening experience. Immediate comparisons are the other ECM choral albums - Arbos, Passio and Te Deum. But this release takes Part's bleak, desolate vision to its ultimate extreme. The title track is without doubt the main feature of the album. The Hilliard Ensemble have never been better placed and the piece simply wouldn't be the same without them. Their usual medieval monk sound seems to take on a whole new character that at times hardly seems human. The atmosphere is icy, almost other-wordly. But the larger mixed choir and warm instrumental textures ... Read More: Rating:  - The Beauty of AbsenceDespite Part's most recent work 'Orient and Occident' or indeed his 'LamenTate' scored for Anish Kapoor's remarkable sculpture at the Tate Modern, Miserere still exists as a celestial and cavernous masterpiece, overshadowing or rather still evidently commanding his present work. Scored for an extraneous cacophony of the finest soloists (the favourites from the Hilliard Ensemble), chorus and orchestra, the dimension of sound created within the stases of extreme texture-both restrained and humble against the declarative and mighty his effect is extraordinarily overwhelming on both scales. One is made ultimately aware of a direct embodiment of the composer's ineffable intent. And so with a conscious recourse to previous works such as 'Arbos' ... Read More: Rating: - A spacious recording of sparse music for reflective solitudeA nicely recorded CD, that conveys the space and atmosphere of a interesting music composer. The composer Part cuts his sound down to its minimum components, so instead of a full orchestra and choir you have the essential players only. The use of space and acoustic in the music process is critical to this music. The music of Part has a spiritual quality to it that is timeless and has instant appeal that will reward listeners on each listen. An interesting CD that is well worth investigating. The CD comes with a booklet inside a slipcase. The booklet contains information about the music and contains pictures from the recording sessions that were attended by Part. The only quibble for me is that the booklet is separate to the CD, and it would have been ... Read More: |
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