Tonus Peregrinus is a group of expert singers who come together once in awhile to attack a special project, this one being Léonin/Pérotin: Sacred Music from Notre-Dame Cathedral in Naxos' early music series. Any attempt to perform or record twelfth century polyphony requires some ingenuity in preparing a text that remains musical, yet makes ...
Beauty and the Beatbox is the Swingle Singers' first album in which all the tracks are accompanied by vocal percussion, specifically the sound of the human beatbox. Some of the tracks are accompanied by British beatboxer extraordinaire Shlomo. He and the members of the ensemble are awe-inspiring in the realism of the effects and in their ability ...
In opposition to the nineteenth century's taste for grand, operatic requiems as exemplified by the works of Berlioz and Verdi, Gabriel Fauré and Maurice Duruflé both sought to make their requiems more appropriate for liturgical use and to avoid drama as much as possible. Neither setting makes use of the terrifying Dies Irae, and references to the ...
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