Templum [Import]

Product Description
Features Recent Compositions as Well as Traditional Tunes Performed with the Irish Chamber Orchestra.

Tracks:

Incantation from NightChants - Jan Gilbert
Axion estin - Nectarie Vlahul
Sound in Spirit - Joseph Jennings
Motet for 12 Singers - Carlos Rafael Rivera
Beata viscera - Plainsong, arr. Jennings
O sacrum convivium - Tomas Luis de Victoria
Como pod'a grioriosa - Alfonso X de Castille
Night Spirit Song - Joseph Jennings
NIghtChant from NightChants - Jan Gilbert
In Winter's Keeping - Jackson Hill
Gloria in Excelsis Deo from Tre canti sacri - Giacinto Scelsi
Past Life Melodies - Sarah Hopkins
Cor meum est templum sacrum - Patricia Van Ness
Glance to You from Nightchants - Jan Gilbert

Album Description

Sound in Spirit represents another leap forward in power and purpose for Chanticleer. On this recording they explore the profound connection between sound and healing. The repertoire weaves together compositions ancient and contemporary, East and West, so the listeners hear familiar and unfamiliar sounds in equal proportions. The texts and sounds are inspired by many different cultures along with religious and musical traditions from Tibet, India, Japan, Africa, indigenous America and Byzantine Greece.

Customer Reviews:

Fantastic.......2007-03-09

As a college trombonist, with decidedly 20th century leanings in my own personal tastes, I found this recording absolutely spellbinding. Weird? Yes! Outside the box? You bet. Awesome harmonic overtone singing? Yes! One of my duties as a musician is to "improv" on jazz solos - they do some of that on this recording as well. This disc has it all. I love ancient sacred music as well (Chanticleers Magnificat disc is excellent as well), but sometimes one tires of the (even though it is beautiful)monotony - the complete tonality and predictability of the works. Sometimes I want some interesting ideas to pop up unexpectedly, something that makes you go "Wow, how did they do that!" Sometimes I want some atonality, some asymmetrical rythmns in my choral singing. It gives the moments of tonality and common time their "glow" for lack of a better word. This disc delivers on all fronts, and is, of course, impeccably sung. In my opinion, Sound in Spirit has a good mix of traditional and non traditional music although it's not something you would put on as back ground music at a dinner or going to sleep. The music forces you to put down what you are doing, and devote your full attention. I definately recommend it.

So rich, so beautiful.......2006-07-08

I really can't understand why this Chanticleer recording in particular should garner such a comparatively large amount of negative reactions. I suppose some people simply have an insurmountable aversion to non-western and/or non-traditional musical ideas. Still, other Chanticleer albums (Colors of Love and Lamentations and Praises both come to mind) have forayed as much or more than Sound in Spirit into such music, and reactions to those tended more towards the positive. If you tend to prefer genre-specific Chanticleer (e.g. gospel, Christmas, early music), then Sound in Spirit may not (I repeat, MAY not) be for you. If, however, you respond equally to a wide range of sounds and styles, or if you enjoy contemporary/adventurous compositions, I cannot recommend this album enough.

Sound in Spirit is a richly evocative and endlessly rewarding musical journey, featuring compositions from diverse artists and genres. Some tracks include ambient outdoor recordings, percussion, or a guest vocalist or two. The liner notes indicate that this, more than any prior Chanticleer recording, is meant to be listened to all in one go, as a shimmering whole that transcends its disparate indvidual elements. Such cohesiveness in a musical release is a remarkable feat by any measure, but Chanticleer truly delivers. Buy it.

A glorious song.......2006-03-08

Como pod'a groriosa, a 10 or 12 minute meditative song, track 7 of the album, is worth the entire price of the CD and more. It is a glorious piece of music that starts out with a lone voice, pleading to Mary for help for his lame daughter, then builds to an amazing crescendo as the daughter is healed and strides out into the world. You can hear the power return to the singer/singers, and it is easy to feel "healed" spiritually one's self, listening to it. I have shared this song with others and their response has been, universally, "Wow."

I paid for this?.......2006-03-08

If I didn't lose the receipt I would have taken this one back.
I was shocked that what I was listening to was really the same Chanticleer on the Rensaissance records I have. I might have enjoyed this more back when I was dropping acid and eatting mushrooms.

Champions of the new and adventuresome........2006-02-17

Chanticleer is most definitely this, and much more. I applaud them for always being willing to try something new and challenge listeners. This is one of the many things that makes them the premier ensemble that they are so well know to be. Certainly, this is not a disc for people who are looking for a non-challenging listen. But it still contains things that will delight such people, especially the magnificently sung Victoria motet. Jennings' Beata plainsong arrangement, Jackson Hill's "In Winter's Keeping", and Past Life Melodies in particular will surely delight almost anyone, especially those who are into "new age" or minimalist music.

The more you listen, the more you realize there is an astonishing amount of variety in this recording. Anyone who is a fan of Chanticleer's adventuresome excursions, incredible flexibility of vocal techniques, and flawless singing will not be disappointed.

Messe de Notre Dame (Guillaume de Machaut)/ Ensemble Organum (Marcel Peres)

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No, friends, it isn't plausible.
Transcendent
The no-nonsense approach we've been waiting for
Machaut's wild ride to heaven
The Missing Link Between Paris and Tunis!

Messe de Notre Dame (Guillaume de Machaut)/ Ensemble Organum (Marcel Peres)
Guillaume de Machaut , Plainchant , Malcolm Bothwell , Jean-Etienne Langianni , Marcel Peres , Antoine Sicot , Jerome Casalonga , and Ensemble Organum
Manufacturer: Harmonia Mundi Fr.
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ASIN: B0000007AY
Release Date: 1997-01-10

Tracks:

Guillaume de Machaut: Introit: Suscepimus Deus misericordiam tuam
Guillaume de Machaut: Kyrie
Guillaume de Machaut: Gloria
Guillaume de Machaut: Graduel: Suscepimus Deus misericordiam tuam
Guillaume de Machaut: Alleluia: Adorabo ad templum sanctum
Guillaume de Machaut: Credo
Guillaume de Machaut: Offertorium: Diffusa est gratia in labiis tuis
Guillaume de Machaut: Preface: Vere dignum et justum est
Guillaume de Machaut: Sanctus
Guillaume de Machaut: Agnus Dei
Guillaume de Machaut: Communion: Responsum accepit Symeon
Guillaume de Machaut: Ite Missa est - Deo gratias

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Although Machaut's oft-recorded Mass is probably the best known work of medieval music, Marcel Pérès and his Ensemble Organum make you literally hear it for the first time. For starters, the movements are performed in a liturgical context, with appropriate plainsong insertions. The vocal lines, in turn, are ornamented with boisterous scoops, Bob Dylan-like slides, and decorations that will sound strange to modern ears. Yet the ornaments illuminate the work's celebratory aspects, and brings Machaut's quirky imagination into firmer focus than more conservative recordings. Pérès is to Machaut as Schnabel was to Beethoven. --Jed Distler

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Machaut's mass is one of the great masterpieces of the Middle Ages. Machaut was a man of many talents whose music represents a point of momentous transition from medieval practice to the emerging Renaissance. This four-voice work, the earliest of its kind by a known composer, is difficult to perform, not because of the notes, but because of questions concerning interpretation of the notation. You'll notice striking differences between Ensemble Organum's performance and every other available version. This group, known for its meticulous scholarship and performance perfectionism, sings in a style that sacrifices modern ideas about vocal purity and beauty in favor of what they believe to be a more authentic 14th-century style. This involves lots of micro-tonal slides and numerous fluttering, nervous ornaments, often done by more than one voice at a time, and a sort of "pushed" vocal quality that some listeners may find strange. Strange, maybe, but it's unique and it's convincing. --David Vernier

Customer Reviews:

No, friends, it isn't plausible........2007-05-01

The long review by Christopher Forbes above makes a very good case for taking this performance at face value in terms of scholarship, but certain facts are asserted as proven that are in fact quite in question. The influence of North African (Islamic? Arabic? Moorish?) music on Medieval Europe, for instance. Most people who argue this case seem to me to project modern Arabic music backwards 1200 years in time and assume that it sounded much the same; really we have no idea how it sounded. The North African origin of the bowed string instruments that became the vielle, viol, and violin is also very uncertain; much has been made of peg-boxes versus peg-disks, and as good a case can be made for a Nordic ancestry of the vielle as for a Moorish.
But big problem, however, with Ensemble Organum's hyper-ornamentation is that it makes no sense in terms of the developments of ars nova notation and contemporary treatments (in words and notes) of prolation. How could you get from Machaut a la Peres to Ars Subtilior composers like Ciconia, let alone Dufay and Ockeghem? And are we to believe that France was more Islamicized than Italy, half of which had been under North African rule for centuries before the Normans? Why would the trecento Italian composers like Landini be so obviously on a different course?
Okay, forgetting my musicological doubts, I have to say I find this version of Machaut less interesting than some other reviewers, and less listenable than the Hilliard's or other performances. There are bits I like and bits I loathe, but on the whole I sense some compulsion to "get spiritual" with the music, as if it weren't deep enough on its own terms. I have thoroughly enjoyed and respected other recordings by Marcel Peres -- the Josquin Pange Lingua, for example, and the Chantilly Codex CD -- but this Nostre Dame, judged just as music, is not to my taste.

Transcendent.......2005-11-29

Forget all the talk about historical accuracy, and interpretation. The real object of a performance is to get at something beyond the music, and without a doubt, Marcel Peres and Ensemble Organum take you there. This disk was a revelation. A truly transporting experience.

The no-nonsense approach we've been waiting for.......2005-10-26

Does anyone else get it besides them? If Ensemble Organum are as correct as they are believable, Guillaume de Machaut was a composer of energetic, driving, bold and rhythmic music. Unfortunately, it is not stylish nor is it scholarly to believe this today. We live in the world where early music is treated as abstractly ornate and void of true emotion. Elizabethan music is often played with excessive frills and highly "expressive" hesitations and tempo shifts that in actuality break the rhythm that this music, written for dancing, originally was meant to have.

The same thing happens, unfortunately, to the music of fourteenth-century France. Dominated by lofty British scholars who try to speak for France's history instead of their own, the music is often marred in the quest for a pure, but sterile, sound. Men sing in forced falsetto voices, trying to impersonate the soul-less eunics whom the British automatically figure must have sung this music. Thank God for a group that knows how to render a sound that makes the music come alive.

The energy, the feeling, the power, the beautiful roughness of Machaut is finally conveyed. The urgent despair of the Kyrie. The uncertain optimism of the Sanctus. The loving caress of the famous Agnus Dei. At last, all of these, in their forcefullness and subtlety, are here, carefully crafted and brilliantly executed.

Machaut's wild ride to heaven.......2004-06-29

First off, this version of Machaut's mass is the sort of daring interpretation that is likely to spark controversy. The way Peres and the Ensemble Organum add ornamentation, slide in and out of notes, and sing with an agressive, non-vibrato style, will be strong drink to those who think this music should be sung with modern style vocal technique. But I found this disc a revelation, connecting Machaut's work to Middle Eastern styles, Eastern European chant and religious music, as well as to the raucous mode of singing used by Shape-note singers in the US. In the words of Charles Ives' father, "You won't get a wild ride to heaven on pretty little sounds." This performance is just such a wild ride, and it's heavenly. There are plenty of "nice" versions of this music available, but this version really rocks.

The Missing Link Between Paris and Tunis!.......2004-04-06

The Early Music field is full of schisms. What once seemed like a monolithic movement, dedicated to challenging the hegemony of 18th and 19th century classical music in the concert hall has turned into a vigorous section of the musical market in its own right. And, as a field that is equal parts musician driven and musicological, it is inevitable that there should develop schisms around points of interpretation. This particularly CD is the product of the very well-researched theories of Marcel Peres. Peres, taking his cues from the historical record, has created a performance of Machaut's historically important and very beautiful Mass and restored the art of ornamentation, microtonal inflection, just intonation, and rhythmic flexibility that reflects at least one of the dominant vocal styles prevalent in 14th century church music. The results have been controversial ever since the release of this CD in 1996.

Machaut's Mass is perhaps the most famous product of the late Middle Ages. It is the first complete setting of the Ordinary of the Mass ever produced by one composer. What is not clear is whether the work was just a collection of separate Mass movements that Machaut assembled for an occasion, or if they were originally intended to be performed together. Machaut uses a wide variety of polyphonic techniques in this work, from long melismatic textures to almost chordal writing. He ingeniously varied his given material, Gregorian chant which is placed in the lowest voice. Machaut shows a new concern for the combination of vocal textures that was not present in the works of earlier polyphonic composers. In a deeply felt performance, this work never fails to sound ancient, and surprisingly fresh, no matter what the approach taken by the ensemble.

The approach toward this work is what distinguishes the present disc from its competition. The best renditions that I own, the Taverner Consort on EMI and the Hilliard Ensemble on Harmonia Mundi take a very respectful and conservative approach to the score. There are differences between them in details, as source material in this work can vary wildly. But both sing exquisitely and with an ear for accurate just intonation. Both also take the work at a good clip, giving the piece a forward drive and rhythmic intensity that is wonderful to hear. This recording is nothing like them!

Peres approaches the work from almost as an ethnomusicologist. Vocal tone is nasal and throat and chest driven. It has the tone of an Arabic muezzin chanting the call for prayer. In addition, the score is used as a framework for extensive improvisatory ornamentation, often with scoops, vibratory ornament and microtonal inflections. The result is much closer to the sound of the choral music of the Caucasus, the singing in Orthodox Churches and most especially, the chants of Sufis in Moorish Spain. This concept can be justified I think in the historical literature and musicologically. Moorish influence on Western Europe cannot be doubted, particularly in architecture and in instrument development. Instruments that make their first appearance in the Middle Ages, like the lute and the viol almost certainly came into Europe via Spain and North Africa. The Arabic influence on education and the arts is widely acknowledged. Why should it not be the same in the field of music? I believe that Ensemble Organum makes an impressive case for the school of thought that believes in Islamic influence on the rise of polyphony in the west.

Of course, all of this would be moot if the CD were poorly executed. The good news is that this CD is a spectacular rendition of the Machaut work. Peres and company choose to present the piece in its greater liturgical context, alternating the polyphonic Ordinary with plainchant sections from a set of Marian Propers. The approach to the chant is similarly ornamented and microtonal. Setting the Mass in its context is not new, Andrew Parrott pioneered this in the 1980s. But in the present CD, the polyphony comes naturally out of the plainchant texture rather than sounding like the intrusion of a later age, as it can with a more traditional performance. Also, given the high emphasis on ornament, the work could sound like a fantasy on Machaut rather than an interpretation on the work. Comparative listens to a more conservative rendering indicate that Peres and Ensemble are fairly faithful to the original scaffolding. This is clearly Machaut's work, not the performers. But the rendering is a fascinating glimpse into what the composer may have actually intended with his groundbreaking work.

The sound of the CD may be difficult for those used to a more contemplative reading of the Mass like the Hilliard's. The vocal quality too will take some more traditional lovers of Medieval music back. But I find the spectacular ornamentation of moments like the In Terra Pax, which is breathtaking, to more than make up for any weaknesses in the disc. And the vocal quality is no stranger than that of the Bulgarian Woman's Choir. I would suggest however, that if you are not familiar with the Machaut Mass, that you get another recording, preferably the Taverner Consort or the Hilliard Ensemble in addition to this one. The comparative approach on this work is essential to understanding both the framework of the Machaut piece and the incredible power and freedom of the present recording.

The Saracen and the Dove: Music from the Courts of Padua and Pavia
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The best!

Medieval bel canto

The Saracen and the Dove: Music from the Courts of Padua and Pavia

Manufacturer: Polygram Records
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Ockeghem: Missa Cuiusvis Toni / Missa Quinti Toni

ASIN: B00000JLFO
Release Date: 1999-07-20

Tracks:

Doctorum principem
Per quella strada lactea
Imperial sedendo
O felix templum jubila
O Maria, virgo davitica
O Padua, sidus preclarum
La douce cere
Con largreme bagnandome
Gloria: Spiritus et alme
Una panthera
Del glorioso titolo
Un fior gentil
Sus une fontayne
Le ray au soleyl
Sumite, karissimi
Dime, Fortuna
Gloria: Ad ogni vento

Customer Reviews:

The best!.......2006-04-20

Briefly, this is the best recording of Ars Subtilior music ever made--the finest control of tuning and rhythmic complexities, the most insightful interpretation, the most lucid program notes, and the clearest audio. Don't hesitate! Buy it!

Medieval bel canto.......2005-03-14

The secular and religious works on this cd are composed by some of the great italian composers from about 1400 in the courts of Padua and Pavia.
The music makes use of many complex techniques like canons, and yet it is melodic and beautiful, like italian music in later centuries used to be.
It is a delight to listen to The Orlando Consort presenting these works.

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Lancastrians to the Tudors
John Dunstable , Walter Lambe , Richard Davy , John Merbecke , Thomas Tallis , John Sheppard , Christopher Tye , Robert Parsons , Robert White , Andrew Carwood , and Cardinall´s Musick
Manufacturer: Gaudeamus
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Binding: Audio CD

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Merbecke: Ave Dei Patris Filia; Domine Ihesu Christe
The William Byrd Edition, Vol. 5: The Masses

ASIN: B00004SC0A
Release Date: 2000-05-23

Tracks:

Requiem Eternam
Gloria
Credo
Sanctus
Salve Mater Domini / Salve Templum Gratie
Descendi In Ortum Meum
Nesciens Mater
O Domine Celi Terreque
Funeral Sentences
Verily, Verily I Say Unto You
Christ Our Paschal Lamb
Ad Te Clamamus
Ave Maria, Gratia Plena
Lamentations

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Here's one of those recordings that are far more interesting than their very dry titles suggest. The Cardinall's Musick has made a post-Tallis Scholars niche for itself as specialists in English Renaissance sacred music, and for this disc they've assembled a fascinating program of music associated with All Souls' College, Oxford, during its first 150 years--and showing the enormous changes the English church and its music underwent during that time. In 1438, when the college was founded, the Wars of the Roses were about to begin, England was solidly Roman Catholic, and the sweet (if not terribly emotive) music of John Dunstable was having a strong influence on the Continent. By 1588, of course, England had become Protestant not once but twice, and recusant Catholics were gathering for secret services with profoundly melancholy music such as Robert White's Lamentations. In between, English church music ranged from the florid, lavishly scored style of Eton Choirbook composers Walter Lambe and Richard Davy to the radically simplified English-language music composed after the reforms of Thomas Cranmer, England's first Protestant archbishop. The Cardinall's Musick captures all these stylistic shifts wonderfully. Many modern performances of Dunstable and his contemporaries are slow to the point of drowsiness (White's Lamentations suffer from the same problem), but not this one. Conductor Andrew Carwood gives the 15th-century works (including two Mass movements attributed to King Henry V) an almost bouncy momentum; Davy's O Domine celi sounds like the fabulous showpiece it is. Consequently, the plainness of the early Anglican music seems startling in contrast. This is more than just an enjoyable recording, it's a fascinating history lesson. --Matthew Westphal

Monastic Chant: 12th & 13th C. European Sacred Music

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Monastic Chant: 12th & 13th C. European Sacred Music

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ASIN: B0000APHOA
Release Date: 2003-11-11

Century Classics, 1100-1200: Music of the Monasteries

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The spirit of the Medieval Church

Century Classics, 1100-1200: Music of the Monasteries

Manufacturer: RCA
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000DHJ9
Release Date: 1998-11-10

Tracks:

Aquitanian Monasteries: 1. Alleluia! Iustus ut palma florebit
Aquitanian Monasteries: 2. Clara sonent organa
Aquitanian Monasteries: 3. O Maria, Deu maire
Aquitanian Monasteries: 4. Instrumental piece
Saint Martial De Limoges: Rex Salomon fecit templum
Letamini plebs hodie fidelis: Saint Martial De Limoges: Letamini plebs hodie fidelis
Rupertsberg: Instrumental Piece
Rupertsberg: Favus distillans
Rupertsberg: O Ecclesia
Rupertsberg: Instrumental Piece
Santiago De Compostela: Ad superni regis decus
Santiago De Compostela: Exultet celi curia, Fulget dies
Santiago De Compostela: O adiutor... Qui subvensis... Portum in ultimo
Santiago De Compostela: Regi perhennis glorie

Customer Reviews:

The spirit of the Medieval Church.......2002-08-16

Despite all scandals and all skirmishes among the religions today, when you start listening to this CD, specially in the Instrumental Pieces, close your eyes and you will see a better pleasant time, when life was hard, but simpler. Faith were not questioned, and mankind were experiencing a slow motion in science and philosophical advances.
I do not tend to defend Christianity with this review, even because I'm not. But anyone that ever had an urge to the past life, the medieval scheme and lifeway, or for any enthusiast of the old days, this CD is amongst the best ever made.

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Chants De L'Eglise Milanaise
Ensemble Organum , and Peres
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Chants sacrés de l'Orient (tradition melchite)

ASIN: B00007EEKE
Release Date: 2003-07-08

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magnificent

Templum
Michael O'Suilleabhain
Manufacturer: EMI Int'l
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ASIN: B00005NDVI
Release Date: 2001-09-17

Tracks:

In Search Of Ancient Ireland - National Chm Chor Of Ireland/Micheal O Suilleabhain
Hup!: Third Movt: Session - Irish CO
Missa Gadelica: Templum
Brosna: Seachtain
Casadh Na Graige
Maranatha
Bean Dubh An Ghleanna
Aisling Geal
Turas Go Tir Na NOg
Hup!: Second Movt: Streetwalk
Ave Maris Stella

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Features Recent Compositions as Well as Traditional Tunes Performed with the Irish Chamber Orchestra.

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magnificent.......2003-04-27

Micheal O'Suilleabhain is a performer, composer, and teacher who heads the internationally renowned World Music program at Limerick College. His improvisations are masterful, the music exqusite. I first heard him some years ago on Brian O'Donovan's Celtic Sojourn show on 89.7 WGBH, public radio in Boston, and he has been a frequent return guest on that fine program. Words escape me-- one listen and you'll be hooked as I was. If you love good music you will love this CD.

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Very nice selection of very early music.

The Age of Cathedrals

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ASIN: B0000007F2
Release Date: 1996-10-22

Tracks:

Resonemus hoc natali
Natus est rex
In hoc anni circulo
Congaudeant catholici
De monte
Ve mundo
Benedicamus Domino - Humane prolis
In natale
Lilium floruit
Propter veritatem
Orienti oriens
Virgo flagellatur
Mors
Templum cordis
Benedicamus Domino
Beata viscera

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In the late 12th century, the city of Paris, with its university and cathedral, was unequaled as a center of music and learning. The musical innovations achieved at Notre Dame and the abbey of St. Martial laid the groundwork for many important developments in music, including polyphony, rhythmic notation, and metrical organization of melody. This recording features 16 works from this period, by both known composers at Notre Dame--Leonin and Perotin--and unknown ones working in monastic anonymity at St. Martial. Although relatively austere and harmonically limited, these revolutionary pieces-- inspired in part by the majesty of the new cathedral buildings built during the 12th century--have an incredible range of emotion, from passionate declamations to intensely moving florid lines. The performances by Paul Hillier and his superb singers are resonant, warm, dynamic, and rhythmically exciting, recorded with spacious sound that preserves the detail of the vocal parts. --David Vernier

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Very nice selection of very early music........2005-12-24

'The Age of Cathedrals' by the Theature of Voices directed by porminant vocal director, Paul Hillier is a very good collection on Latin liturgical music written for the Paris Notre Dame cathedral.

As a layman when it comes to early music, I am simply reporting on how enjoyable I find this album compared to other recordings of early liturgical works. In general I find two weaknesses. First, it is done entirely with male voices and second, the collection of tracks do not constitute a full mass, but fragments of music for various festivals and monastic activities.

If you simply like some old music, I would suggest some of the albums by Sequentia which includes some instruments and some female voices. If you are a died in the wool liturgical wonk, you will love this album.