Taverner & Tudor Music I - The Western Wind - Dacapo: 8226050 - CD

Hillier turns the choir into a true theatre of voices, with some startling results. — BBC Music Magazine, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 28th Aug 2006
Catalogue No: 8226050
Label: Dacapo

Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days

Taverner: Mass 'The Western Wynde'

Ars Nova Copenhagen
Paul Hillier

Taverner: Kyrie 'Le Roy'

Ars Nova Copenhagen
Paul Hillier

Cornyshe: Woefully arrayed

Ars Nova Copenhagen
Paul Hillier

anon.: Ah, my dear, ah, my dear Son!

Ars Nova Copenhagen
Paul Hillier

Sheryngham: Ah, gentle Jesu

Ars Nova Copenhagen
Paul Hillier

Browne, J: Jesu, mercy, how may this be?

Ars Nova Copenhagen
Paul Hillier

Tye: In pace in idipsum

Ars Nova Copenhagen
Paul Hillier

Reviews
Explore

Reviews

Hillier turns the choir into a true theatre of voices, with some startling results.

November 2006

Few understand such music better than Paul Hillier, who has directed the 16-voiced Scandinavian choir Ars Nova since 2002. His approach to the Mass is brisk but flexible, with an admirable sense of the alternation of intensity and dissipation that inhabits this music.

November 2006

Taverner's Western Wynde Mass is often held up as one of the composer's masterpieces. Tempi are brisk, the projection of the lines energetic… In some of the fiercely demanding sections for reduced voices (the Benedictus, for example), the Danish singers are heard to strain but in the full sections they are as dynamic and outgoing as the music itself. As to the brief settings of the Kyrie (Leroy) and In pace with which the disc opens and closes, they show a more contemplative side to Taverner, to which Ars Nova respond most movingly.

Taverner & Tudor Music I - The Western Wind

CD

Contents

Download queue