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Beautiful Choral Music, August 28, 2001
This review is from: Scottish Renaissance Polyphony 1 (Audio CD)
Robert Carver was composer to the Scottish throne during the early period of the Renaissance. He was mainly a composer of church music for the royals. The pieces on this cd especially "O Bone Jesu" are startlingly beautiful. The voices emerge in beautiful harmony and slowly different sections begin to vary the melodic theme, then Carver brings it all back to a gorgeous and moving resolution, and then begins the entire process again. This is wonderful and deeply spiritual stuff. There is a meditative mood that pervades the entire work. Capella Nova perform these pieces with sensitivity and flawless tone. I first heard Carver while touring Stirling Castle. Hearing this gorgeous music in such a historic landmark, with the sound bouncing off the medieval walls was nothing short of mind-blowing. Carver is one of the foremost Scottish Composers of any period. This cd is well worth the investment if you are interested in Early Music, Sacred Music or Scottish culture.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Sublime, January 26, 2003
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This review is from: Scottish Renaissance Polyphony 1 (Audio CD)
This is a wonderful recording. I don't know very much about Carver but his music has an "ecstatic" quality that reminds me of Hildegard of Bingen (who is about as distant from Carver as we are, although in the other direction) or the Tallis of the "Spem in alium". Rolling waves of harmony as the voices weave in and out of each other. The Agnes Dei of the Mass "Dum Sacrum Mysterium" has an extreme almost psychadelic beauty.
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