Artist	Song
Anonymous 4 (C13th France)	Ne M'Oubliez Mie (Mo 236)
Bjork (C21st Iceland)	Vokuro
Alban Berg (C20th Austria)	Die Nachtigall
Einojuhani Rautavaara (C20th Finland)	Vigilia: (vii) Evening Hymn
Etty Ben Zaken (trad. Israel, Spain)	El Rey De Fransia
Carlo Gesualdo (C16th Italy)	Resta Di Darmi Noia
Hildegard von Bingen (C12th Germany)	O Ignis Spiritus
Maurice DuruflT (C20th France)	Requiem: In Paradisum
John Tavener (C20th England)	Hymn for the Dormition of the Mother of God
Dzintars (trad. Latvia)	Sleep My Child
Gabriel FaurT (C20th France)	Pavane
Voces ¦quales (C15th Hungary)	O Domine Jesu Christe
Krzysztof Penderecki (C20th Poland)	Magnificat: Sicut Locutus Est
Fryderyk Chopin (C19th Poland)	Lulajze, Jezuniu (Largo, Sonata Op. 58)
Francisco Guerrero (C16th Spain)	O Lux Beata Trinitas
Ensemble Mzetamze (trad. Georgia)	Bat'onebis Nanina
Ravi Shankar & The Madras Choir (C20th Indian)	Hey Nath
Kavkasia (trad. Georgia)	Tsintsqaro
David Hill (C20th England)	Dominus Illuminatio
Sharakan (C18th Armenia)	Ter Voghormya
The Hilliard Ensemble (trad. Estonia)	Marjal Aega Magada

Comment:

glō'bal
a. world-wide; pertaining to or embracing the whole of a group.

chor'al (k-)
a. 1. of or sung by choir; 2. (read or said) by group of voices; of or with chorus.



I've been delaying the creation of a sequel to Global Choral for so long that I

now find I have accumulated a stockpile of tracks-in-waiting. As it turns out, enough for a four CD set.

Again the concept is choral music that spans time and geography. The net has been widened at times, stretching & abusing those above definitions, but the

spirit remains the same.
And, in truth, I find these volumes are about as 'global' as the first mix; that is, not really representative of the entire globe that we live upon but

predominantly sourced from within a quarter of that area. So be it, those are my tastes and "Quarter Sphere Choral" just doesn't have the same appeal to it

:)



This volume starts off with a French song dealing with fin amours (true love). Apparently the two inviolable precepts of this subject were deemed to be, first, that true love may existing only outside marriage and second, that a man must subject himself totally to the will of his beloved, whether her requests seem rational or not. Only a fool would comment further on this.

Maurice DuruflT was hugely self-critical, resulting in him producing only 14 works in a 50 year career. His Requiem is the most famous of these and uses the same text as FaurT's.

Ensemble Mzetamze were formed in the mid-1980's by 6 women musicologists from Tbilissi Conservatory and are dedicated exclusively to the traditional music of women in Georgia.

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