Altum [Import]

Altum [Import]

Altum [Import]

Track Listings
 
1. Revangelis
2. Blasphemer
3. To My Beloved One
4. Painless
5. ...Repent...
6. Into The Arms Of The Night
7. Lusticon
8. Sinful
9. Propheter Of The Unenthroned

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Sophomore Album from Finnish Melodic Goth Metal Band!

Altum,Silentium,Spike,Heavy Metal,Rock/Pop
Infinitia Plango Vulnera/Altum
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    		Infinitia Plango Vulnera/Altum
    Silentium
    Manufacturer: Silentium
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B000PE0GT6
    Release Date: 2007-05-14

    Tracks:

    1. Solicitude
    2. Forever Sleep
    3. Redemption
    4. Autumn Heart
    5. Whatever The Pain
    6. Maiden Of The Forest
    7. Requiem
    8. With Blood Adorned
    9. At The Dawn I Wept
    10. Solicitude
    11. Revangelis
    12. Blasphemer
    13. To My Beloved One
    14. Painless
    15. . . . Repent. . .
    16. Into The Arms Of The Night
    17. Lusticon
    18. Sinful
    19. Propheter Of The Unenthroned
    Victoria: O Magnum Mysterium; Ascendens Christus in altum
    Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    • VICTORIOUS
    • Great!
    • A wonderful, soaring experience
    		 Victoria: O Magnum Mysterium; Ascendens Christus in altum

    Manufacturer: Hyperion UK
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

    Sacred & ReligiousSacred & Religious | Renaissance (c.1450-1600) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music
    GeneralGeneral | Classical | Styles | Music
    GeneralGeneral | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music
    MassesMasses | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music
    MotetsMotets | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music
    Renaissance (c.1450-1600)Renaissance (c.1450-1600) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music
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    Similar Items:
    1. O Quam Gloriosum
    2. Victoria: Requiem
    3. Victoria: Responsories for Tenabrae
    4. Victoria: Missa Gaudeamus, etc / Carwood, Cardinall's Music
    5. Victoria: Ave Regina caelorum and Other Marian Music

    ASIN: B000002ZIR
    Release Date: 1993-11-11

    Tracks:

    1. Motet O Magnum Mysterium
    2. Missa O Magnum Mysterium: Kyrie
    3. Missa O Magnum Mysterium: Gloria
    4. Missa O Magnum Mysterium: Credo
    5. Missa O Magnum Mysterium: Sanctus
    6. Missa O Magnum Mysterium: Benedictus
    7. Missa O Magnum Mysterium: Agnus Dei
    8. Motet Ascendens Christus In Altum
    9. Missa Ascendens Christus In Altum: Kyrie
    10. Missa Ascendens Christus In Altum: Gloria
    11. Missa Ascendens Christus In Altum: Credo
    12. Missa Ascendens Christus In Altum: Sanctus
    13. Missa Ascendens Christus In Altum: Benedictus
    14. Missa Ascendens Christus In Altum: Agnus Dei

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars VICTORIOUS.......2004-01-31

    Tomas Luis de Victoria was a Spanish priest, an acquaintance of Palestrina and Lassus. His personal style in his polyphonic masses and motets is a strongly marked one easily distinguished from those of his great contemporaries. Like Palestrina he favours relatively unbroken vocal lines and in general he also avoids the antiphonal effects adopted by the Flemish school of the period and earlier, Lassus and before Lassus Josquin. There the resemblance to Palestrina ends, for me at least. There is a `swarthy' tone to Victoria's music that does not achieve, probably does not aim at, the characteristic radiance and serenity of the Italian master, nor on the other hand the calm but depthless sorrow of his Stabat Mater. It is also a more emotional, if not quite more `extrovert' idiom than Palestrina's, and it is notable that all Victoria's masses are based on upbeat and joyful motets.

    The polyphony is basically four-part, but varies at different points from three to five. The two motets are given here as well as the masses derived from them, the motets majoring in alleluia's - Ascendens has no fewer than five in its short compass. In each mass the composer sets the text of the Agnus Dei only once, but Hill and the Westminster Cathedral choir follow what I believe to be the standard practice of giving it a second time, with the music to `miserere nobis' adapted to `dona nobis pacem' the second time. As each phrase has six syllables accentuated in the same places, I can only imagine that this was the composer's intention.

    The recorded quality is not the most `forward' or striking that I have heard recently in similar productions, but there is nothing about it that would have me even consider witholding a fifth star from the disc. The performance is idiomatic and accomplished, with a proper sense of sharing the exultant feel inherent in the music. It may be one of the happier consequences of the straitened financial position of the classical music industry that there is currently such a superb selection available of ancient music, which must be less expensive to record than, say, Mahler or Shostakovich. Westminster Cathedral is, in the last resort, a parish church, and its younger choristers at least, maybe all of them, cannot by definition be professionals. The sense here is one of belief in as well as enthusiasm for and close familiarity with the idiom of this kind of music. The professionalism in the best sense comes from the directing, and I can only wonder how many performances as accomplished as this the composer himself was privileged to hear.

    5 out of 5 stars Great!.......2000-01-12

    My high school concert choir sang O Magnum Mysterium this year. This is the most wonderful recording I have ever heard!

    5 out of 5 stars A wonderful, soaring experience.......1999-01-09

    Anyone who loves choral music should discover Victoria. This is a sublime introduction.
    Victoria: Ave Maria/Vidi Aquam/Laetatus Sum/Ascendens Christus In Altum
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      		Victoria: Ave Maria/Vidi Aquam/Laetatus Sum/Ascendens Christus In Altum

      Manufacturer: Dorian Recordings
      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD

      Vocal & SongVocal & Song | Early Music | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music | Requiems
      Sacred & ReligiousSacred & Religious | Renaissance (c.1450-1600) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music
      GeneralGeneral | Classical | Styles | Music
      GeneralGeneral | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music
      MassesMasses | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music
      MotetsMotets | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music
      Renaissance (c.1450-1600)Renaissance (c.1450-1600) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music
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      1. Victoria - Missa Ave Regina for 8 Voices

      ASIN: B000001O9T
      Release Date: 1997-01-14

      Tracks:

      1. AVE MARIA
      2. VIDI AQUAM
      3. Missa 'LAETATUS SUM': Kyrie
      4. Missa 'LAETATUS SUM': Gloria
      5. Missa 'LAETATUS SUM': Credo
      6. Missa 'LAETATUS SUM': Sanctus
      7. Missa 'LAETATUS SUM': Benedictus
      8. Missa 'LAETATUS SUM': Agnus Dei
      9. Motet LAETATUS SUM
      10. Missa 'ASCENDENS CHRISTUS IN ALTUM': Kyrie
      11. Missa 'ASCENDENS CHRISTUS IN ALTUM': Gloria
      12. Missa 'ASCENDENS CHRISTUS IN ALTUM': Credo
      13. Missa 'ASCENDENS CHRISTUS IN ALTUM': Sanctus
      14. Missa 'ASCENDENS CHRISTUS IN ALTUM': Benedictus
      15. Missa 'ASCENDENS CHRISTUS IN ALTUM': Agnus Dei
      16. Missa ASCENDENS CHRISTUS IN ALTUM
      Come, Holy Spirit: Music for Ascension, Pentecost & Trinity
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        		Come, Holy Spirit: Music for Ascension, Pentecost & Trinity

        Manufacturer: Guild
        ProductGroup: Music
        Binding: Audio CD

        All Works by J.S. BachAll Works by J.S. Bach | Bach, Johann Sebastian | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music
        Byrd, WilliamByrd, William | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music
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        ASIN: B0002ADW3A
        Release Date: 2005-01-17
        Salve Regina, Sacred Music by Monteverdi and His Venetian Followers
        Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
        • Listen to this and you will buy it
        • a voice teacher and early music fan
        • Intimate Italian renaissance songs
        		 Salve Regina, Sacred Music by Monteverdi and His Venetian Followers

        Manufacturer: Hyperion UK
        ProductGroup: Music
        Binding: Audio CD

        All Works by MonteverdiAll Works by Monteverdi | Monteverdi, Claudio | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music
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        ASIN: B00005A9XS
        Release Date: 2001-04-10

        Customer Reviews:

        5 out of 5 stars Listen to this and you will buy it.......2007-03-17

        This is an extraordinary recording of some of the music for solo voice from Italy in the first half of the 17th century. The composers represented are probably familiar to many early music lovers.

        Robin Blaze is accompanied by a string ensemble & basso continuo group. Strings were popular at this time in Italy, although cornetts and sackbuts continued to be used in ceremonial and ecclesiastical music in Italy for the rest of the 17th century.

        Whenever I play this CD at work, someone always comments upon it and wants it.

        It is one of the best recordings Mr. Blaze has made. A fine achievement.

        5 out of 5 stars a voice teacher and early music fan.......2006-11-26

        Venetian Sacred Music changed drastically in the 1620s from the polychoral style of Gabrielli to a new and different idiom. Instead of extravagent writing for large divided choirs, the emphasis was on a few solo voices singing music that required great skill and virtuosity. In addition, somewhat in the style of Monteverdi the music became more intimate, and reflected the influence of secular music. This recording concentrates on the music for the countertenor voice, since much of it was written originally to be sung by falsettists and/or castrati.
        Alessandro Grandi seems to have invented the motet for solo voice with violins, and there are 2 on this disc: 'Amo Christum' and 'Ave Maria Stella'.
        Very little is known about Francesco Marini, but his fine setting of the hymn 'Jesu dulcis memoria' is notable for its Venetian flavour.
        The setting of 'Exultate Deo' is the only known vocal work of a Venetian wind player and important composer of Sonatas, Dario Costello.
        Monteverdi's 'Pianto della Madonna' is a strange and problematic work taken from his lost opera 'Arianna' and one cannot envision this as a religious work.
        Giovanni Rigatti and Giovanni Rovetta replaced Monteverdi at St. Marks after his death in 1643. Rigatti's setting of Psalm 4 "Cum invocarem" and the "Nunc dimittis" came from a collection of music for Compline, and they show that he was a master of the Monteverdi stye. In Rovetta's setting of 'Salve Regina' the instruments have a more modern role, accompanying the voice, as well as alternating with it.
        The 2 instrumental sonatas by Marini and Legrenzi exemplify the changes in the Italian sonata between the 1620's and 1650's. Legrenzi's charming Christmas motet "O Mirandum Mysterium" exemplifies clarity and sweetness and finally deeper things.
        Now comes my FAVORITE selection on the disc:'Ascendit Christus in altum' by Johann Rosenmuller. He takes the music a step forward; it consists of a joyful triple-time passage that encloses a brief recitative and a duple-time strophic aria. It is incredibly attractive.
        This, in my opinion, is Robin Blaze's BEST RECORDING!!!!!..His countertenor voice has more depth and emotion than I hear on his other recordings. His diction has always been flawless and his technical ability considerable. The Parley of Instruments led by Peter Holman is, as usual, excellent. A great disc for the lover of early music.

        4 out of 5 stars Intimate Italian renaissance songs.......2001-10-21

        This is a fine album of Italian Venetian Renaissance singing to string accompaniment. Most of these pieces by diverse composers were apparently written in the decades following 1620, when Venetian music transitioned from the stentorian and brassy bi-choral music of the Gabrielis to the more virtuosic but intimate, small-scale, and string-based trio sonata with voice. The sacred texts and music--not from the mass--are mostly rather quiet but upbeat, set in contemporary secular opera rather than grand church styles, and thereby more expressive. Cut #2 is in fact a love song to Christ!, one of several texts with a tinge of sensuality. All the compositions were conceived for, and are performed here by, a solo voice and limited string accompaniment (plus two string sonatas as interludes). This produces a "small" and intimate sound, closely recorded to fill your room (much more realistically than a 19th century symphony would).

        Most of this music is rather somber and played at a slow to moderate tempo. Some are strophic songs while others are through-composed with greater attention to freely expressing the text, for example the extraordinarily intense "Cum invocarem..." by the neglected master G.A. Rigatti (who unfortunately died young). The final piece, by the German interloper, Rosenmüller, is of interest to hear not only for its outbreak of joyous propulsiveness but because he was a prime importer of Italian styles into Germany, eventually leading to Bach. The soloist is Robin Blaze, a wonderfully robust sounding countertenor (male alto) without breaks in his range nor a piping falsetto. The Parley of Instruments consists of six string players using small-voiced 17th-century-type instruments and led from what must be a small organ by Peter Holman (leader, music editor, and crafter of the chronological and expressive order of the pieces recorded here). Altogether a very full and fine performance that revives very rarely heard but lovely works.
        Hoyoul: Sacræ Cantiones
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          		Hoyoul: Sacræ Cantiones

          Manufacturer: Christophorus
          ProductGroup: Music
          Binding: Audio CD

          Vocal & SongVocal & Song | Early Music | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music | Requiems
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          ASIN: B00005A0FV
          Release Date: 2001-02-27
          Altum
          Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
          • Breath-taking.
          		 Altum
          Silentium
          Manufacturer: Sp.Fa
          ProductGroup: Music
          Binding: Audio CD

          GeneralGeneral | Rock | Styles | Music
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          ASIN: B00005J989
          Release Date: 2005-08-09

          Tracks:

          1. Revangelis
          2. Blasphemer
          3. To My Beloved One
          4. Painless
          5. ...Repent...
          6. Into The Arms Of The Night
          7. Lusticon
          8. Sinful
          9. Propheter Of The Unenthroned

          Album Description

          Sophomore album from Finnish melodic goth metal band! 9 tracks. Spinefarm. 2006.

          Album Details

          Sophomore Album from Finnish Melodic Goth Metal Band!

          Customer Reviews:

          5 out of 5 stars Breath-taking........2005-06-25

          As a fan of many other operatic/symphonic metal bands (Tristania, After Forever, Ambeon, Lacuna Coil, The Gathering, Nightwish, and Susperia) I can quite honestly say that this album is wonderful. There is a strong metal element to the songs, but it also blends well with the violins and pianos. The female vocalist is stunning. The male vocals are very present, but are clean, as opposed to the rougher growls of Tristania and After Forever's male vocalists. If you are a fan of operatic metal, this would make a find addition to your collection. I give it 5 stars. :)

          Music Track:

          1. America Must Be Destroyed [Explicit Lyrics]
          2. Antietam Comes Alive [Live]
          3. BBC Radio 1 Live [Live]
          4. Better Live Than Dead [Enhanced] [Live]
          5. Better Than Raw [Import]
          6. Black Flower
          7. Buio Omega (1997 Reissue of 1979 Film) [Soundtrack]
          8. Coal Chamber [+Bonus Track] [Import]
          9. Collection [Import]
          10. Dark Command [Import]

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