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- From: gtaylor@vme.heurikon.com (Gregory Taylor)
- Newsgroups: rec.music.classical
- Subject: Re: 20th Century Choral Work....
- Message-ID: <1982@heurikon.heurikon.com>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 16:30:33 GMT
- References: <1992Dec11.174004.16257@tc.fluke.COM> <1992Dec17.153251.10891@vax.oxford.ac.uk>
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- wilcox@vax.oxford.ac.uk writes:
- >Never one to hide my light under a bushel, particularly if it means people
- >buying the CDs, Schola Cantorum of Oxford have recently released two discs of
- >twentieth-century music on the Proudsound label (distributed by Gamut). And you
- >no longer have to take my word for it that they are good. The first (sacred:
- >Martin's mass for double choir, motets by Durufle, Stanford, Gorecki and Byron)
- >was a critic's choice in the December Gramophone; the second (secular: Vaughan
- >Williams, Ravel, Debussy, Ligeti, Dallapicolla) got a very good review in
- >Classic CD. And neither are what you'd call the usual English stuff.
-
- Sounds pretty interesting. But since I have one of our continental
- cousins on the net on this subject, I don't suppose that you're aware
- of any existing recording of Bryars' "Cadman Requiem", are you? With
- the anniversary of the Lockerbie tragegy so near at hand (Gavin's friend
- Cadman was on that flight), I was reminded again of the urge to hear
- Bryars trying his hand at vocal writing (the original performance was by
- the Hilliard Ensemble, I believe).
-
- Curiously,
- Gregory
- --
- The law moves quickly in the rain/and chokes the world with memorials./The
- courts accept the lowest superstition/into evidence. And we embrace quickly in
- the rain,/conceiving a hale infant with hands to wrinkle/the bedsheets toward
- it, wave by trough by wave./Gregory Taylor/Heurikon /Madison, WI/608-828-3385
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