Track Listings (11) - Disc #1| All Artists: Johannes Ockeghem, Peter Urquhart, Capella Alamire, Bradford Findell, Charles "Vision" Turner, Charles Kamm, John Bradley, Karin Hagaman, Kristin Dexter, Peggy Monahan Title: Music of the Modes: Three Masses by Johannes Ockeghem Members Wishing: 1 Total Copies: 0 Label: Dorian Recordings Release Date: 3/11/1997 Genre: Classical Styles: Opera & Classical Vocal, Historical Periods, Early Music, Renaissance (c.1450-1600) Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 751758015227 |
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 | Johannes Ockeghem, Peter Urquhart, Capella Alamire Music of the Modes: Three Masses by Johannes Ockeghem Genre: Classical
You don't have to be a scholar or an early music fanatic to enjoy music like this. Just close your eyes and let the warm voices, flowing lines, and gentle harmonies wash over you. Yes, this is sacred music, intended for ... more » |
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Amazon.com You don't have to be a scholar or an early music fanatic to enjoy music like this. Just close your eyes and let the warm voices, flowing lines, and gentle harmonies wash over you. Yes, this is sacred music, intended for worship, but its sensuousness can't be denied. While not as stylish or masterful in linear development as the later music of Byrd, Tallis, Palestrina, or Victoria, it projects an assured sense of melodic motion and harmonic destiny. Although 1997 was the 500th anniversary of the death of Flemish composer Johannes Ockeghem, much of his music remains in obscurity--and what there is has often been criticized for its "lack of formal consistency." If this is a bad thing, only a musicologist will care. In the hands of the very fine Capella Alamire, who sing with seamless phrasing and near-perfect ensemble blend and balance, what the rest of us hear are richly colored, deeply felt expressions of great beauty that elevate the revered texts of the Mass to heavenly heights. --David Vernier Similar CDs
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CD ReviewsThey Knew What They Were Doing! Giordano Bruno | Wherever I am, I am. | 10/18/2007 (5 out of 5 stars) "It's a shame and pity that this CD and others by Capella Alamire are scarcely available. Alamire is a choir, with the usual weaknesses of choral timbre which I often criticize in reviews of Renaissance polyphony. However, they're a very good choir. What's special about them is that they both understand and execute modal solmization; lots of modern performers diddle with the modes and ficta of Renaissance polyphony until it sounds homogenized. I think the best of Alamire is this "Music of the Modes", a performance of three masses by Ockeghem. Old Ockeghem and other Flemish polyphonists knew what they were doing. Singing Ockeghem's Missa Sine Nomine in its most authentic modal fashion, for instance, reveals its harmonic boldness and creates excitement where a "corrected" modernized version merely sounds like yet more sacred sameness. Director Peter Urquhart emphasizes the harmonic challenges of the three masses by setting very thoughtful tempi throughout; the result is sublimely meditative rather than jaunty. The notes which accompany the disk are also especially clear and useful in understanding the concepts of a musical language more different from ours than one might assume."
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