Pilgrimage to Santiago
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Composer: Codex Calixtinus AnonymousComposer: Llibre Vermell de Montserrat Anonymous
Composer: Clemens non Papa (Jacob Clement)
Composer: Guillaume Dufay
Composer: Orlande de Lassus
Composer: Cristobal de Morales
Composer: Jean Mouton
Composer: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Composer: Tomas Luis de Victoria
Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner
Performer: Elin Manahan Thomas
Edition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2006-11-14
Music Label: Soli Deo Gloria
Soundtracks:
- Kyrie
- Gloria
- Sanctus
- Benedictus
- Agnus Dei
Music reviews of Pilgrimage to Santiago
Music Review: John Eliot Should Have Known Better
Rating: 3 Stars
Not all pre-classical music should sound the same! Not all pilgrimages tread the same paths. The performance of Medieval music requires specific techniques - unique voice timbres as well as unique instruments - and it's as much a travesty to sing the troped chants from the Codex Calixtinus like Bach Chorales as it is to perform the Goldberg Variations on a Hammond organ. The tempi Gardiner takes for many of the pieces on this CD are ridiculously slow, and the chorus makes no effort to sing in the modal tunings required to recapture the energy of this music. Apply your ears to the amazon samples of "congaudeant catholici" on the CDs by Sequentia (Sons of Thunder) or Anonymous Four (San'tiago) if you want to confirm or refute my opinion.
Likewise, Gardiner's selections here, and his ruminations on pilgrimage, are rampant self-indulgence. Lumping Aquitanian polyphony and Palestrina together serves no musical purpose. Chronologically, one might as well snip arias from Monteverdi and Verdi, and potch them together all in the same style. It seems as if Gardiner is merely attempting to tap into the craving of our times for spiritualized music. All of us who love Bach, Ockeghem, Perotin, or anonymous chant have to confront the religious content of that music on our own terms, but we needn't sacrifice musical values to do it. The bottom line is that I don't think these performances are up to snuff. None of them will bear comparison with recordings of the same pieces by other ensembles more focused the Renaissance and Medieval performance practices.
General CDs
- Styles > Classical
- Featured Composers, A-Z > ( D ) > Dufay, Guillaume
- ( L ) > Lassus, Orlando di(Lasso) > All Works by Lassus
- ( M ) > Morales, Crist?bal de
- Historical Periods > Renaissance (c.1450-1600) > Sacred & Religious
- Sacred & Religious > General
- Opera & Vocal > General
- Historical Periods > Renaissance (c.1450-1600)
- Vocal Non-Opera > Hymns
- Masses
- Motets
- Dufay, Guillaume - Works by Dufay
- Classical - Featured Composers, A-Z - ( M ) - Morales, Crist?bal de - General
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