Product description I will ship by EMS or SAL items in stock in Japan. It is approximately 7-14days on delivery date. You wholeheartedly support customers as satisfactory. Thank you for you seeing it. Review With an already distinguished list of recordings to their credit, the award-winning a cappella male choir Chanticleer now turns its attention to music written in homage of the Virgin Mary. This is an outstanding disc whose perfect match of timbre and blend in each piece highlights with more than impressive eloquence the extraordinary emotional range this theme inspired in Renaissance composers around the world. Chanticleer's mellifluous singing in the plainsong items, and in Taverner's alternatim setting of the Magnificat, illuminates the close affinity between chant and polyphony. Heavenly renderings of Monteverdi's richly scored 'Stabat virgo' and 'Maria, quid ploras' touch the heart of the Virgin's grief following her Son's crucifixion. Two works by Valery Titóv (a singing clerk in the 17th-century Russian court) are of special interest. Here, Chanticleer paints the composer's directly expressive setting of the text in 'The Angel Cried Out' and 'O thou Joy' with uplifting and resplendent opulence. The ensemble's brilliant luminescence in Victoria's 'Regina caeli' and transparent purity in 'Alma redemptoris mater' strike a more intimate tone. Meanwhile, Chanticleer's exquisite poise in Palestrina's 'Ave regina caelorum' and the two Josquin pieces brings us closer to the Virgin, most touchingly in the expansive and plaintive 'Salve regina'. Performance **** Sound **** © BBC Music Magazine 2000
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A lovely disc
This is a very lovely disc of music devoted to Mary by Josquin, Taverner, Monteverdi, Cornysh and others. The music itself is extremely beautiful; it is often meditative as in Josquin's limpid setting of Ave Maria sometimes strikingly chromatic in the Monteverdi settings and bounded by some lovely chant. It represents some of the finest 16th and 17th century music and forms a really enjoyable collection.The singing is excellent. I have enjoyed Chanticleer's recordings for some time and this is among the best I know. They have a full, rounded sound in which individual lines are not always completely distinct, but whose overall effect is exceptionally beautiful. The singers are technically excellent with faultless intonation and a genuine engagement with the text and there is a genuine sense of worship and communion with the Virgin and even though this is not a religious belief I share, I find the effect profoundly spiritual and moving.The recorded sound is excellent and the presentation very attractive making this a very fine disc all round, and I recommend it very warmly.
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