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Early Music (Lachrymae Antiquae)
- Artist: Kronos Quartet
- Composer: Alfred Schnittke, Arvo Pärt, Christopher Tye
- Label: Nonesuch Records
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Messe de Nostre Dame, mass for 4 voices:Kyrie 1 0:55
Marja Mutru: Guillaume de Machaut
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Lachrimae antiquae, for 5 viols/violins & lute (from "Lachrimae") 3:56
Wu Man: John Dowland
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Studies (2) on Ancient Greek Scales, for harmonic canon & bass marimba (from "Eleven Intrusions") 3:41
: Harry Partch
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Messe de Nostre Dame, mass for 4 voices:Kyrie 2 0:45
Marja Mutru: Guillaume de Machaut
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Synchrony for string quartet (6 other arrangements):No. 2 2:41
Judith Sherman: Moondog (Louis Thomas Hardin)
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String Quartet in Four Parts:Quodlibet 1:29
: John Cage
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Messe de Nostre Dame, mass for 4 voices:Kyrie 3 1:06
Marja Mutru: Guillaume de Machaut
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Fantasy for 4 viols in B flat major, Z. 736 3:07
: Henry Purcell
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In Nomine a 5 ("Farwell my good 1. for ever") 2:21
: Christopher Tye
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Canon in Memoriam Igor Stravinsky, for string quartet:Collected Songs Where Every Verse is Filled with Grief 8:30
: Alfred Schnittke
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Church Bells:Abbey of St. Peter's of Solesmes, France 1:27
: Recorded Sound
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Description
What's interesting about the latest outing from this prolific chamber group is not so much that they've chosen to create string quartet adaptations of music from the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance -- after all, these are folks who have commissioned arrangements of Jimi Hendrix and Bo Diddley, so we've learned not to be shocked -- but rather that they've chosen to juxtapose the works of Machaut, Pérotin and Tye with pieces by John Cage, Moondog and Harry Partch, among other twentieth-century notables. But maybe that shouldn't come as a surprise, either. It certainly makes lovely musical sense: the stark and static beauty of Arvo Pärt's Psalom fits perfectly with John Dowland's Lachrymae Antiquae (did that man never cheer up?) and John Cage's Quodlibet sounds just right next to Pérotin's "Viderunt Omnes." Was Cage poking fun at his composition teachers with a parody of the raw, open harmonies of the twelfth century? If so, the Kronos folks have turned his intent on its ear in a way that he himself would probably have loved. Puckishness, however, is not really on the agenda here: the overriding mood is one of sadness and devotion, as the album's subtitle (Latin for "ancient tears") makes clear. Like most of Kronos' best work, this is dark, lovely, eerie stuff. Rick Anderson, All Music Guide
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Description
What's interesting about the latest outing from this prolific chamber group is not so much that they've chosen to create string quartet adaptations of music from the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance -- after all, these are folks who have commissioned arrangements of Jimi Hendrix and Bo Diddley, so we've learned not to be shocked -- but rather that they've chosen to juxtapose the works of Machaut, Pérotin and Tye with pieces by John Cage, Moondog and Harry Partch, among other twentieth-century notables. But maybe that shouldn't come as a surprise, either. It certainly makes lovely musical sense: the stark and static beauty of Arvo Pärt's Psalom fits perfectly with John Dowland's Lachrymae Antiquae (did that man never cheer up?) and John Cage's Quodlibet sounds just right next to Pérotin's "Viderunt Omnes." Was Cage poking fun at his composition teachers with a parody of the raw, open harmonies of the twelfth century? If so, the Kronos folks have turned his intent on its ear in a way that he himself would probably have loved. Puckishness, however, is not really on the agenda here: the overriding mood is one of sadness and devotion, as the album's subtitle (Latin for "ancient tears") makes clear. Like most of Kronos' best work, this is dark, lovely, eerie stuff. Rick Anderson, All Music Guide
Features
- Genre: Choral
- Release Date: September 16, 1997
- Label: Nonesuch Records
- Artist: Kronos Quartet
- Additional Artists: Alfred Schnittke (Performer ), Christopher Tye (Performer ), Harry Partch (Performer ), Henry Purcell (Performer ), Hildegard von Bingen (Performer ), Jack Body (Performer ), John Cage (Performer ), John Dowland (Performer ), Mikael Marin (Performer ), Olov Johansson (Performer )
- Composer: Alfred Schnittke, Arvo Pärt, Christopher Tye, David Lamb, Guillaume de Machaut, Harry Partch, Henry Purcell, Hildegard von Bingen, Jack Body, John Cage
- Format: CD
Additional Information
- DPCI: 244-00-9788
- ASIN: B002IKDJL2
- Catalog #: 11358791
- Item can not be gift wrapped.
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- Estimated Ship Dimensions : 5.6 inches length x 4.9 inches width x 0.4 inches height
- Estimated Ship Weight: 0.25 pound.
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