Ensemble Project Ars Nova - Homage To Johannes Ciconia (1370-1412)
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Artist: Ensemble Project Ars NovaPerformer: John Fleagle
Composer: Johannes Ciconia
Performer: Michael Collver
Performer: Crawford Young
Performer: Laurie Mohahan
Performer: Laurie Monahan
Performer: Steven Lundahl
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2009-11-18
Music Label: New Albion Records
Soundtracks:
- Istampita 'Amor per ti sempre
- Cacando un giorno
- O Padua, sidus praeclarum
- Regina gloriosa
- Aler m'en veus
- Io crido amor
- O rosa bella
- Poy che morir
- Ben che da vui donna
- Le ray au soleyl
- Le ray au soleyl
- Le ray au soleyl
- Petrum Marcello Venetum-O Petre antistes inclite
- Chi nel servir antico
- Per quella strada
- Una panthera
- Gli atti col dancar
- Sus une fontayne
- OPetre, Christi discipule
- Doctorum principem-Melodia suavissima-Vir mitis
- O virum omnimoda-O lux et decus-O beate Nicholae
Music reviews of Homage To Johannes Ciconia (1370-1412)
Music Review: Double Five! for the Music and the Ensemble
Rating: 5 Stars
If you've ever for a moment supposed that the people who choose to perform Medieval music, from which they are unlikely to get rich, are therefore second-rate musicians, lacking the virtuosity and training of symphony players or opera singers, just the first two tracks of this album should change your mind decisively. Both the singers and the instrumentalists of Ensemble Project Ars Nova handle the fiendishly difficult music of Ciconia and other ars subtilior composers with total authority. The polyrhythmic complexity of this repertoire has never been exceeded, and the exposed imtitative passagework at breakneck speed requires singers whose tuning is flawless, whose ability to "sing into each other" is phenomenal, and whose vocal flexibility exceeds the requirements even of operatic bel canto. Some of these caccias and motets remind me of the standard quip about the coloratura arias of Mozart's Queen of the Night: 'just to be able to sing it at all is a miracle, let alone to sing it well.' Soprano Laurie Monahan and counter-tenor Michael Collver sing it very well indeed. John Fleagle has the perfect voice and sensitivity to ensemble for his supporting role, singing the "tenor", that is, the melodic structural line in early polyphony like these pieces. Now that "samples" are available on amazon, I don't feel a need to explain this music so much. I'm just delighted to find that this CD, probably PAN's best,is still available. PAN was the most artful and skillful Medieval ensemble of our times; it's a tragedy that they have ceased to concertize and record. Get their disks while you can!
A word to anyone who depreciates counter-tenors. Listen to Michael Collver and learn why the high male voice was, and is, valued for "early music". Michael is a gruff Southern California surfer dude in his street persona. A very skilled performer on the Renaissance cornetto, he uses his high register voice as athletically as he plays his horn - the same divisions and ornamentations, the same "riffs" of melismatic color. If you can't respond to the virility and artistry of Michael's singing, a pox on your genes!
Instrumentalist Crawford Young and Steven Lundahl perform on their exotic string instruments as fluently as any modern guitarist or fiddler also. Just enough "jazzy" saltarello-like instrumental music is included on the disk to highlight their skills and to set off the complex, intellectual motets, in which the singers often weave together three distinct texts, perhaps even in differnt languages. There are no secondary lines in this music; every 'voice' has to maintain its expressive independence, and yet mix and match with exquisite timing.
John Fleagle has passed away of cancer since this album was released. He was a man of charm and generosity. His friends and fellow musicians will never forget him.
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