The Hilliard Ensemble - A Hilliard Songbook: New Music For Voices (2000)
The Hilliard Ensemble - A Hilliard Songbook: New Music For Voices (2000)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 512 MB | 01:59:50
Genre: Classical | Label: ECM New Series
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 512 MB | 01:59:50
Genre: Classical | Label: ECM New Series
This recording represents a wide and diverse repertoire. The virtuosic singing of this male quartet will just blow you away. The vocal style has that distinctly renaissance sound to it, yet put with this modern repertoire the juxtaposition is just wonderful. As previous reviewers have mentioned there are very good liner notes, and much of the material has been written specifically for this ensemble and can be found nowhere else.
Most of the music is some way religious in theme, although certainly not to the taste of some! Several recordings on this disk are among my favorite choral music. The 8 selections from the composition "The Hilliard Songbook" are an interesting take on the idea of harmonies representing colors, with the refrain of 'True beautie.'
Arvo Pärt's "And One of The Pharisees…" is a mini-drama for three voices, very unusual and distinct from anything else I've heard by him. Each verse of the scripture text is set to a different harmony, with the melody only moving away from that harmony if the word is multi-syllabic. One voice represents Christ, another the Pharisee. As these rules get broken in the last couple verses the spiritual lesson is hit home.
"Sharp Thorne" is an exquisite yet difficult pill to swallow, it is amazing how much dissonance can be brought out between four voices. The text juxtaposes a medieval poem written from Christ's perspective ("what might I suffer more than I have suffered, man for thee") with a modern text heaping all the sins of modern atrocities onto that timeless sacrifice (it equates the spear that pierced him with weapons forged at Vickers). Devastating and powerful.
All of the tracks are definitely worth a listen, from the rollicking 'Kullervo's Message,' based on a passage from the Kalevala, to the furious 'Whale Rant' which sets a sermon from Moby Dick.
If you like modern choral/vocal ensemble music this album is a tour-de-force that shouldn't be missed!
Track List:
CD 1
1. Guy: Un Coup De Dés
2. Feldman: Only
3. Moody: Endechas Y Canciones - 1. No Pueden Dormir Mis Ojos
4. Moody: Endechas Y Canciones - 2. Endechas A La Muerte De Guillén Peraza
5. Moody: Endechas Y Canciones - 3. Pués Mi Pena Veis
6. Moody: Endechas Y Canciones - 4. Ojos De La Mi Señora
7. Hellawell: The Hilliard Songbook - 1. True Beautie
8. Hellawell: The Hilliard Songbook - 2. On Black And White
9. Hellawell: The Hilliard Songbook - 3. True Beautie
10. Hellawell: The Hilliard Songbook - 4. Emerodde
11. Hellawell: The Hilliard Songbook - 5. True Beautie
12. Hellawell: The Hilliard Songbook - 6. Iasent
13. Hellawell: The Hilliard Songbook - 7. True Beautie
14. Hellawell: The Hilliard Songbook - 8. By Falshood
15. Robinson: Incantation
16. Tormis: Kullervo's Message
CD 2
1. Traditional: Adoro Te Devote
2. MacMillan: … Here In Hiding …
3. Pärt: And One Of The Pharisees …
4. Pärt: Summa
5. Liddle: Whale Rant
6. Metcalf: Music For The Star Of The Sea
7. Finnissy: Stabant Autem Iuxta Crucem
8. Casken: Sharp Thorne
9. Moody: Canticum Canticorum I - I Surge, Properea Amica Mea
10. Moody: Canticum Canticorum I - II Descendi In Hortum Meum
11. Moody: Canticum Canticorum I - III Ego Dilecto Meo
Performers:
The Hilliard Ensemble
Rogers Covey-Crump, Tenor
John Potter, Tenor
Barry Guy, Double Bass
David James, Countertenor
Gordon Jones, Baritone
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