Kyrie (2008)
by
Christopher Watson, Le Basile, Oxford Clerkes (choir, chorus)
The title of this album, Kyrie: Chant for Quiet Meditation, is not an entirely accurate description of its contents. Chant refers specifically to vocal music, and generally to plainchant, that most often has a single line (sometimes with an added drone note) sung as a solo, or by an ensemble in unison. This album includes some tracks of solo and unison singing, but also a large number of polyphonic pieces -- music with several independent voices -- sometimes played by an instrumental ensemble, and sometimes with instruments ...
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The title of this album, Kyrie: Chant for Quiet Meditation, is not an entirely accurate description of its contents. Chant refers specifically to vocal music, and generally to plainchant, that most often has a single line (sometimes with an added drone note) sung as a solo, or by an ensemble in unison. This album includes some tracks of solo and unison singing, but also a large number of polyphonic pieces -- music with several independent voices -- sometimes played by an instrumental ensemble, and sometimes with instruments and voices together. Most of the 33 tracks are very short, so there is a lot of stopping and starting, and switching back and forth between vocal and instrumental music, some of which is so active that it's hard to imagine it being conducive to conventional meditation practices. The album may not be what it purports to be, but if one takes it simply as a collection of Medieval vocal, choral, and instrumental liturgical works, it's highly successful. It does indeed consist almost...
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- Cunctipotens genitor Deus
- Studentes
- Missa Conditor Kyrie omnium: Kyrie
- 15 improvisations on "kyrie squares" for vocal ensemble: Kyrie square No. 1
- Deus creator
- 15 improvisations on "kyrie squares" for vocal ensemble: Kyrie square No. 2
- 15 improvisations on "kyrie squares" for vocal ensemble: Kyrie square No. 3
- Rex immense, trope de Kyrie
- 15 improvisations on "kyrie squares" for vocal ensemble: Kyrie square No. 4
- Kyrie fons bonitatis, trope in mode 3
- Kyrie eleison civitate
- 15 improvisations on "kyrie squares" for vocal ensemble: Kyrie square No. 5
- 15 improvisations on "kyrie squares" for vocal ensemble: Kyrie square No. 6
- Kyrie lux et origo, mass movement
- Kyrie cunctipotens
- 15 improvisations on "kyrie squares" for vocal ensemble: Kyrie square No. 7
- Omnipotens Pater, kyrie in mode 8
- 15 improvisations on "kyrie squares" for vocal ensemble: Kyrie square No. 8
- 15 improvisations on "kyrie squares" for vocal ensemble: Kyrie square No. 9
- 15 improvisations on "kyrie squares" for vocal ensemble: Kyrie square No. 10
- Orbis Factor, Kyrie XI in mode 1
- Missa verbum incarnatum, for 3 voices: Kyrie
- 15 improvisations on "kyrie squares" for vocal ensemble: Kyrie square No. 11
- 15 improvisations on "kyrie squares" for vocal ensemble: Kyrie square No. 12
- Cunctipotens genitor Deus
- Kyrie, fons bonitatis
- Kyrie Rex Genitor (for Christmas Midnight Mass)
- 15 improvisations on "kyrie squares" for vocal ensemble: Kyrie square No. 13
- Kyrie Rex Mariae
- 15 improvisations on "kyrie squares" for vocal ensemble: Kyrie square No. 14
- Rex Splendens, Kyrie
- 15 improvisations on "kyrie squares" for vocal ensemble: Kyrie square No. 15
- Sol sub nube latuit
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