The Sixteen - Renaissance: Music For Inner Peace
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Artist: The SixteenEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-04-12
Music Label: Decca
Soundtracks:
- Miserere
- Agnus Dei Opus 11
- Crucifixus (8-Part)
- The Lamb
- Christe adoramus te
- Kyrie
- If Ye Love Me
- Totus Tuus, Op.60
- Locus Iste
- When David heard - (Anthem)
- Iustorum animae, 5vv
- Salvator mundi (Cantiones sacrae 1575)
- Agnus Dei
- Ave Maria - (4vv)
- Salve Regina
- Libera nos, salva nos 1 - antiphon:7vv
Music reviews of Renaissance: Music For Inner Peace
Music Review: Beautiful CD
Rating: 4 Stars
I heard some sample tracks on iTunes and they really had an effect on me.. had to have the rest of the album. The singing is awe-inspiring. The Sixteen is an incredible.. "singing troupe"? Whatever you call them they're great.
The one thing I noticed in the recording was a very slight humming that's not audible at normal volumes. But if you really crank it, to like 11, it becomes irritatingly noticeable. I don't think it was my stereo equipment but anything's possible.
Very good CD though. Recommended.
Description of Renaissance: Music For Inner Peace
This new release is somewhat mistitled: while most of the pieces are, in fact, from the Renaissance (or early Baroque), there are works here also by Samuel Barber, Poulenc, John Tavener, Bruckne,r and Gorecki. What they all have in common is their beauty and serenity. Perhaps the CDs subtitle, "Music for Inner Peace," also refers to a type of renaissance, i.e., spiritual re-birth: in which case, they're right on the money. The Sixteen, led by Harry Christophers, is one of the greatest proponents of this sort of choral music in the world, and they don't disappoint here: The Allegri "Miserere," with its wickedly beautiful ascent to high C by soprano soloist, is ravishing; Barber's own arrangement of his "Adagio for strings" for chorus (1967) is polyphony at its most "renaissance" without actually being so, and Gorecki's "Totos Tuus" is otherworldly in it mysticism. The selections by Byrd, Tomkins, et al., are, like the others, impeccably performed. Even an early piece by contemporary composer John Tavener, normally the master of excruciatingly pretentiousness, is lovely. This recording is a gem. --Robert LevineGeneral CDs
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