Post by Beagle October 13, 2007 (1 of 4)
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The wife and I are having a lot of fun with this disc....
Buy this disc and cue up track 12: Danza de la espadas (anon. 1300s); then on your old CD player spin The Pogues' "If I should fall from grace with God" album and cue up track 8. You'll be surprised.
(Review to follow)
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Post by Beagle October 17, 2007 (2 of 4)
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After much internal debate, I gave this disc the full 5 stars for both sound and musicianship.
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Post by ramesh October 18, 2007 (3 of 4)
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Yes, it's a great disc.
I only wished the booklet notes had more musicological detail, of the type which Angela Hewitt provides for her discs.
For instance, there is the very interesting remark that bowed instruments entered Europe from Muslim lands-- certainly in all my books of Western classical and late Roman art there aren't any depictions of bowed instruments. The SACD could've been thematically organised around the diffusion of bowed instruments into Western music, and how this may have affected harmony and melody, but this opportunity wasn't grasped.
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Post by nickc October 18, 2007 (4 of 4)
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ramesh said:
Yes, it's a great disc.
I only wished the booklet notes had more musicological detail, of the type which Angela Hewitt provides for her discs.
For instance, there is the very interesting remark that bowed instruments entered Europe from Muslim lands-- certainly in all my books of Western classical and late Roman art there aren't any depictions of bowed instruments. The SACD could've been thematically organised around the diffusion of bowed instruments into Western music, and how this may have affected harmony and melody, but this opportunity wasn't grasped.
And I wish Mrs. Savall could have been tempted to come along and sing!
I've just ordered the Lachrimae Caravaggio which is composed by Jordi himself.
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