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the Kyrie from a parody-technique Latin mass by Antony Pitts on Henry Purcell's 'Hear my prayer' - duration: c.5'00
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Rather like a fractal diagram each part of this Mass setting magnifies a smaller and smaller section of the original than the one before: decoration assumes structural importance and then - just when all seems to be utterly and fantastically different - the familiar shape of the original re-emerges.
The Kyrie uses just the opening phrase of Purcell's Hear my Prayer which is heard - forwards, backwards and upside-down - at three different pitches and at three different speeds.
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THE GRAMOPHONE
"His is a compositional voice of real personality and imagination (no surprise to those of us who have admired Pitts's work as a truly original producer at BBC Radio 3)....new music that has immediate appeal without ever relaxing into the 'easy' or the saccharine"
THE INDEPENDENT
"a composer with a special love for all manner of dizzying textural pile-ups and naughty harmonic contradictions..."
INTERNATIONAL RECORD REVIEW
"it is enormously encouraging that every bar of his music is eminently singable....he is, undoubtedly, a serious and committed composer"
THE INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
"remarkable ways with music"
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