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Track(s) taken from CDH55273

De la virge Katerine/Quant froidure/Agmina milicie/AGMINA

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Agmina milicie

Gothic Voices, Christopher Page (conductor)
Recording details: March 1990
Church of the Hospital of St Cross, Winchester, United Kingdom
Produced by Martin Compton
Engineered by Tony Faulkner
Release date: September 1990
Total duration: 2 minutes 15 seconds
 

Reviews

‘Gothic Voices at its most imaginative. The group's choice of repertory is sublime and the freedom of its interpretation is bracing. Recommended’ (BBC Music Magazine)
In this piece the essential idea of the polytextual motet is carried to its limit. Here are three separate poems which speak of two different subjects in two different languages. Since the note-values of the Tenor are fairly long relative to those of the upper parts, there is a ‘pedal’ effect in many measures. There is a very clear contrast in the piece between a first section, where all the voices phrase together, and a second, where the phrases overlap and we sense that each part is struggling for mastery. The strategic placing of the penultimate dissonance—in this case an added sixth—produces a striking effect.

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