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Global Choral II : Volume Four
| Artist | Song | |
| Choirs & Audience* of Tallinn Song Festival (trad. Estonia) | Koit ("The Dawn") | |
| The Bulgarsky Rospev (trad. Bulgaria) | The Nobel Joseph | |
| Hugo Wolf (C19th Autria) | Auf ein altes Bild | |
| Ave Sol (trad. Latvia) | Tek sualite tecedama ("The Sun Keeps Rolling") | |
| The Bulgarian Voices Angelite (C20th Bulgaria) | Mechmetio | |
| Linnamuusikud (C20th Estonia) | Au Kiitus Olgu Igavest ("All Glory Be To God On High") | |
| Claudio Monteverde (C17th Italy) | Magnificat: Quia Fecit | |
| Muungano National Choir (C20th Kenya) | Nyathii Onyuol | |
| Alexander Gretchaninov (C19th Russia) | I Have Chosen the Blissful | |
| Anonymous 4 (C13th France) | Dame, que je n'os noumer/Amis donc (Mo337) | |
| Ensemble Georgika (C12 Georgia) | Shen Khar Venakhi | |
| Ensemble Mzetamze (trad. Georgia) | Elia | |
| Ensemble Berehinya (trad. Ukraine) | Vorotarchik ("Gatekeeper") | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (C18th Austria) | Ave Verum Corpus (Motet K.618) | |
| Maurice DuruflT (C20th France) | Ubi Caritas, Op.10 #2 | |
| Georgy Sviridov (C20th Russia) | Ikona ("The Ikon") | |
| Ralph Vaughan Williams (C19th England) | Motets: Prayer to the Father of Heaven | |
| The Rustavi Choir (trad. Georgia) | Tsmindao Chmerto | |
| Thomas Tallis (C15th England) | O nata lux de lumine | |
| Uncredited Lab Women (trad. Albania) | Legend Of The Walled-in Woman | |
| Claude Debussy (C19th France) | Les AngTlus | |
| Samuel Barber (C20th USA) | Agnus Dei | |
| Akira Rabelais (C21st USA/trad. Iceland) | "Gorgeous curves lovely fragments labyrinthed on occassions entwined charms..." | |
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
:)
The final volume in this series starts with more voices than all the tracks on all the other CDs put together. Estonians sure do like their song festival
with up to a quarter of the population turning up for them. On this track we hear an audience of 20,000 accompanying the choir in four-part harmony.
It ends with Akira Rabelais, a man fascinated with sound (as a child he shot metal plates with a BB gun just to hear the sound it made). Here he takes
traditional Icelandic acappella singing from a old tape he came across. Using his own software he manipulates these sources to create his own haunting
soundscapes.
Feedback:
"I saw her today at the reception..." (hmmm, wasn't that sung by a choir, too..?)
Lovely stuff, old chap -- good to hear the choir, & good t'see ya' back.
Lovely stuff, old chap -- good to hear the choir, & good t'see ya' back.
Impressive.
Awe-inspiring, smile-making, and quarter-jaw dropping.
magical once again
the other 2 were Aural Treats, I'd expect nothing less from these also!!!!!!
The whole series looks very good. Great to see that you were able to complete it. I'd love to hear some of this.
One of the best-ever (imho) series on the site. Period. One assumes these two volumes uphold the standard. Slurp...
Always interesting, Muzag.
20,000 voices! that sounds like material for the Guiness book . . . speaking of which, I think you get the AOTM prize for most 12th- & 13th-century material . . .
Hey, have you seen that 2004 French movie "Les Choristes" (a.k.a. "the Chorus" in English release)? A bit sentimental, maybe, but well done & with some good singing.
Hey, have you seen that 2004 French movie "Les Choristes" (a.k.a. "the Chorus" in English release)? A bit sentimental, maybe, but well done & with some good singing.