进口CD:鲁特:儿童弥撒曲 阴影 婚礼颂歌 RUTTER:Mass of the Children Shadows Wedding Canticle(CD)8.557922

《进口CD:鲁特:儿童弥撒曲 阴影 婚礼颂歌》Beginning with the last piece on this CD, we have a brief Wedding Canticle, a graceful, lovely melody sung smoothly by the choir and underpinned by the odd but also gentle combination of flute and guitar. The middle work, Shadows, is a song cycle composed in 1979 and consisting of eight songs based on 16th- and 17th-century poems; the subject matter is sleep, death and dream-states. Baritone Jeremy Huw Williams colors the text well, and the guitar accompaniment is fluid and interesting, but the cycle is not particularly compelling. The Mass of the Children, however, which takes up most of the CD, is a beautiful, affecting work. It begins with a lively tune and moves at once into a well-blended "Kyrie"; the "Benedictus" is rich and full, with both children's and adult's choirs joining together. The "Agnus Dei" incorporates William Blake's "The Lamb" into the usual text, with the kids' voices intoning it with charm, and the final "Dona nobis pacem" is warm and peaceful. This is a fine program, and even if the Song Cycle is not up to the standards set by the Mass and Canticle, there's still enough here that is superb, and the performances are excellent. 01 Mass of the Children: Kyrie 02 Mass of the Children: Gloria 03 Mass of the Children: Sanctus and Benedictus 04 Mass of the Children: Agnus Dei 05 Mass of the Children: Finale: Dona nobis pacem 06 Shadows: I.Shadows 07 Shadows: II.Gather ye rosebuds 08 Shadows: III.Sonnet 09 Shadows: IV.The Epicure 10 Shadows: V.Sic vita 11 Shadows: VI.O Death, rock me asleep 12 Shadows: VII.In a goodly night 13 Shadows: VIII.Close Thine Eyes 14 Wedding Canticle

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