Say Amen
Today I'm listening to an album from the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, directed by Stephen Cleobury. It's a wonderful sampler of the music of Górecki, Tavener and Pärt, with plainsong sung in between each main track. Plainsong sandwich ... mmmmm. The singing is superb, although when it comes to the Górecki Amen (Opus 35), I happen to be partial to John Nelson's more percussive approach.
What? You've never heard the Amen? It's a great piece. Don't just sit there -- continue sitting there while you follow the links above to listen to the excerpts. Both of them. Do it now.
This had to be an influence. The stylistic similarities are too obvious.
Umie the Umlaut says, "ask your doctor about the Fredösphere!"
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Thanks for commenting on King's Choir under Cleobury and his piece by Tavener. In my homepage I have posted a QuickTime movie slideshow of about 28 sketches of King's, Cambridge, with the music selected Tavener's "Song for Athene" by King's Choir under Cleobury. Incredible stuff, although I wonder if the choir did not do greater things under Sir David Willcocks. I call my slideshow "Tenebrae at King's". You might want to look see.
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