Sacred Treasures IV: Choral Masterworks, Quiet Prayers
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Brand: Heart Beat RecordsComposer: Arvo Part
Composer: Nikolai Sr Kedrov
Composer: Tomas Luis de Victoria
Composer: Morten Lauridsen
Composer: Gabriel Faure
Composer: Dobri Hristov
Composer: Maurice Durufle
Performer: Christoph Maria Moosmann
Performer: Angela Yoffe
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2006-03-14
Music Label: Hearts of Space
Soundtracks:
- PART: O Weisheit
- KEDROVE: Ochte Nash
- VICTORIA: Jesu Dulcis Memoria
- LAURIDSEN: Contre Qui, Rose
- FAURE: Benedictus
- CHRISTOV: Cherubic Hymn No 4
- DURUFLE: In Paradisum
- LAURIDSEN: O Nata Lux
- FAURE: In Paradisum
- LAURIDSEN: O Magnum Mysterium
- PART: Spiegel Im Spiegel
- PART: Pari Intervallo
Music reviews of Sacred Treasures IV: Choral Masterworks, Quiet Prayers
Music Review: Stunning Musical Expressions of Piety
Rating: 5 Stars
This CD is another fine offering in the "Sacred Treasures" series. Unlike many other compilations, the represented ensembles are some of the best in the world and each piece has been chosen with deliberation and care. This particular volume highlights the continuity of the sacred music tradition, reaching back to high craft of Renaissance Polyphony (Tom?s Luis de Victoria) to today's more contemporary composers such as P?rt and Lauridsen. From pieces as seemingly disparate as Kedrov's Russian Orthodox "Otche Nash" and Lauridsen's "Contre qui, Rose" the listener obtains the same sense of a very personal piety.
Although the CD implies choral masterworks, there are also two stunning instrumental offerings ("prayers without words") and not all of these "quiet prayers" are even sacred, as with the Lauridsen "Contre qui, Rose." Most of the pieces rely on subtlety of harmonic texture, as with the P?rt "O Weisheit" which rests upon a simple harmonic idea that travels through the ebb and flow of faithful prayer. Lauridsen's "Contre qui, Rose," features a beautiful Rilke text that is sacred in its own way and the composer carries his listeners through rich swells of choral texture, lifting them through waves of gentle dissonances, and setting them gently on the shores of cadence and consonance.
The Faur? "Benedictus" from the Messe Basse is a real treasure not only in that it is less-known than the famous Requiem, but this particular performance by the Cambridge Singers under the direction of John Rutter most aptly conveys the beauty and simplicity of Faur?'s sacred music.
The compilation features "classics" such as the "In Paradisum" from both the Durufl? and Faur? Requiems, as well as less common performances such as the "Otche Nash" performed by the distinctive Bulgarian women's choir, KITKA. Lauridsen's "O Nata Lux" and "O Magnum Mysterium" both communicate the sense of illuminating hope that is carried through each of the pieces on the CD.
The "quiet prayers" offered on this album are some of the richest and most beautiful representations of the sacred in music. It is refreshing to see such high quality ensembles and performers represented on a compilation CD, as well as such a varied sampling of repertoire. Far from being mere ear-candy, the pieces on the CD testify to music's ability to be the ultimate expression of faith.
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