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Anonymous four-part piece from the Notre-Dame repertory, edited/arranged by Antony Pitts
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recorded by TONUS PEREGRINUS and released on Naxos in July 2005 (8.557340) |
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MUSICWEB www.musicweb-international.com September 2005 RECORDING OF MONTH
on Leonin / Perotin - Sacred Music from Notre-Dame Cathedral (Naxos 8.557340): "...recorded by the nine strong group TONUS PEREGRINUS. It follows their wonderful recording of the Missa Tournai which came out last year. This disc has proved to be even better. In fact it is one of the most intriguing discs of 12th/13th-century music issued for some time...
...TONUS PEREGRINUS have a new approach, in fact several new approaches. These throw new light on this repertoire and make for a fascinating and generous seventy minutes of listening...
...an ideal acoustic with real atmosphere. It is also aided by superb singing which is not only powerful but also sensitive to dynamic variation...
...a terrific sense of accumulating architecture....
...a simple and moving unaccompanied performance of Perotin’s Beata Viscera by the perfect Rebecca Hickey...
...The CD booklet is a model of its kind. All tracks are clearly explained. There is a superb introductory explanation by an expert...
To sum up. A wonderful seventy minutes of the earliest polyphonic music known in Europe. Praise cannot be high enough for the entire project and team. One of my recordings of the year so far. You should go out and buy it instantly."
ALL MUSIC GUIDE www.allmusic.com September 2005
"one of the very best recorded options ever made for this music"
on Leonin / Perotin - Sacred Music from Notre-Dame Cathedral (Naxos 8.557340): *****performance *****sound
"...a group of expert singers...TONUS PEREGRINUS, under the direction of Antony Pitts, ...emphasizes the importance of skilled solo singers in this literature by inaugurating the disc with an outstanding rendering of Perotin's monophonic conductus setting of Beata viscera, sung magnificently by Rebecca Hickey...
...TONUS PEREGRINUS marries these principles to a setting of Psalm 115, Non nobis domine, and in some places the voices seem to lift into the stratosphere - it is a truly 'heavenly effect' that has to be heard to be believed. In works by Léonin and Pérotin, the Organum travels at the same speed as the plainchant, a radically different approach from virtually all other choirs, which tend to perform the Organum at a faster clip as opposed to the chant. It makes a huge difference in the sound of the composition, and makes total sense in terms of realizing this style...
...the manifestation of the Organa in Leonin/Perotin: Sacred Music from Notre-Dame Cathedral is redolent with the atmosphere we know from the books, architecture, and painting of that distant time, and is one of the very best recorded options ever made for this music."
BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE August 2005 - Choral & Song Choice
"An utterly beguiling introduction to Léonin and Pérotin"
on Leonin / Perotin - Sacred Music from Notre-Dame Cathedral (Naxos 8.557340): "...none of the available collections, I think, quite matches the approach of this album in the way it helps the listener make connections between the different forms of organum... ...Scholarly the approach may be, but dry it ain't.....on the contrary, this is an ideal introduction to this music, better even - and I thought I'd never say this - than David Munrow's Music of the Gothic Era. The clarity, balance, sensitivity and sheer beauty of the performances makes for an utterly beguiling 70 minutes, from the opening Beata viscera, a lovely solo by soprano Rebecca Hickey, to the final four-part compositions."
THE TELEGRAPH 6 August 2005 - Classical CD of the Week
on Leonin / Perotin - Sacred Music from Notre-Dame Cathedral (Naxos 8.557340): "Building a programme of music around a non-musical concept may or may not work in practice, but this utterly spellbinding disc is a fine example of how successful such a project can be. It relates the increasing complexity and sophistication of the music written for the cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris during the later 12th century to the contemporaneous stages of its construction. This is truly great music. Rebecca Hickey brings a beautiful tenderness and sense of wonder to Pérotin's unaccompanied single-line Beata viscera. The disc also reveals Léonin's varied and fascinating exploration of the possibilities of two-part writing, and the overwhelming grandeur and mind-boggling intricacies in Pérotin's monumental four-part settings of Viderunt omnes and Sederunt principes. TONUS PEREGRINUS sing with forthright confidence and a strong sense of rhythmic purpose, in both lilting triple-time passages and more harmonically static sections, which develop an almost hypnotic quality. They communicate their infectious enthusiasm for this distant sound-world, and recreate it most persuasively."
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