Hide player

Hyperion Records

Click cover art to view larger version
Track(s) taken from CDH55169

EnglishFrançaisDeutsch
The suite from the 1958 Thorold Dickinson documentary Power Among Men is entitled ‘Fugues and Cantilenas’ and sits very happily in the immediate vicinity of the 1957 Lively Arts Fugue and the 1962 Joyful Fugue. Do the fugues in Power Among Men, for all their formality and consistency, look back in spirit to the ‘fuguing tunes’ of the late eighteenth-century New England hymnodists like William Billings? Since this was a salient part of Thomson’s heritage the answer is probably ‘yes’. And inasmuch as ‘cantilena’ is a term used for a passage of particularly sustained melodic or lyrical quality—vocal or instrumental—each of Thomson’s ‘fugues’ could legitimately be described as a ‘cantilena’. But all Thomson is really canto, song, singing: even ‘Ruins and Jungles’, ostensibly a mood piece, is really a chorale in disguise, and the ‘Joyous Pastorale’ is an instrumental dance-song.

from notes by Christopher Palmer © 1992

Recording details: October 1991
All Hallows, Gospel Oak, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Christopher Palmer
Engineered by Mike Clements
Release date: February 1992
Total duration: 16 minutes 9 seconds

Show: MP3 FLAC ALAC
   English   Français   Deutsch
over £20 for 10% discount on whole order
over £40 for 15% discount on whole order
over £59 for 25% discount on whole order
over £200 for 35% discount on whole order
(P&P free on almost all orders.)
Your basket:
There are no items in your basket.
Use the Buy buttons across the site.

The following discounts will be applied for CD purchases:
ms'); ' %>