Sensation

Anúna - Sensation

Sensation
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Artist: Anúna
Composer: Michael McGlynn
Performer: Noel Eccles
Performer: Kenneth Edge
Performer: Máire Breatnach
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-06-27
Music Label: Danu
Product features:
  • Anuna - Sensation
Soundtracks:
  1. O Ignis Spiritus, for vocal ensemble & saxophone
  2. Brezairola, for vocal ensemble
  3. Sensation, for vocal ensemble, violin & harp
  4. Silver River, for saxophone & vibraphone
  5. Shining Water, for vocal ensemble, viola, harp, low whistle & percussio
  6. Lux Aeterna, for vocal ensemble
  7. The Road of Passage, for vocal ensemble
  8. Whispers of Paradise, for vocal ensemble, violin, harp & percussion
  9. Maid in the Moor Lay, for vocal ensemble
  10. Tenebrae IV, for vocal ensemble
  11. O Maria, for vocal ensemble

Music reviews of Sensation

Music Review: All Music Guide Review
Rating: 5 Stars

Sensation, the 10th album by Irish choral ensemble Anúna, brings together a wide assortment of music, all of it arranged or composed by its conductor, Michael McGlynn. While McGlynn's treatments may rankle purists, who, for instance, only want to hear Hildegard von Bingen performed by unaccompanied women's voices, when taken on its own terms, his cross-pollination of musical styles is never less than intriguing and is most often beguiling.

McGlynn's sophistication as a composer accounts for much of the album's appeal. The title track, featuring a speaker reciting an idyllic Rimbaud poem, accompanied by violin, harp, and women's chorus singing a sensual, impressionistic setting of the same text, vividly captures the serenity and eroticism of Rimbaud's imagery. McGlynn's setting of the medieval text Maid in the Moor Lay is disarming in its folk-like simplicity and purity. His O Maria is harmonically and texturally complex, but never sounds "difficult," and conveys an otherworldly and enveloping serenity. Other pieces, such as Silver River and Shining Water, bring a new age sensibility to the Irish folk tradition.

The other factor in making this album so sensually appealing and rewarding is the extraordinary technical prowess and secure musicianship of the singers. The ease and precision and musicality of their performances of extremely demanding music puts them in the ranks of the very finest chamber choirs. It would be a pleasure to hear them bring their formidable strength to the broader repertoire of exceptional (and exceptionally difficult to perform) choral music that is being written today.

Review by Stephen Eddins
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Track Listing 1. O Ignis Spiritus 2. Brezairola 3. Sensation 4. Silver River 5. Shining Water 6. Lux Aeterna 7. The Road Of Passage 8. Whispers Of Paradise 9. Maid In The Moor Lay 10. Tenebrae IV 11. O Maria

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