SKU: ST.EC32
ISBN 9790220218378.
Included are Libera me, Domine, de morte aeterna, the ninth respond at Matins in the Office of the Dead, and WhiteAs only surviving essay in respond form. There are also four hymn settings with Sarum texts, and two Lamentation settings. They hold an important place in the ranks of a genre that briefly flourished during the Elizabethan period, despite a lack of indigenous precedent for the form. Individual titles from this volume are available as Adobe PDF files...
SKU: HL.14042598
ISBN 9788759827482.
Programme Note Poul Ruders WIND-DRUMMING WIND-DRUMMING was written in 1979 on a commission from The Danish Percussion Ensemble. The piece is a clash of two kinds of sound-associations, the mystic, exotic impact of Latin-American drumming, and the more well dressed reputation of Western concert-instruments, in this case a wind-quintet (w. electric flute). The two instrumental camps either melt into one soft humming ritual or are split wide apart, the winds tearing their way through the undergrowth of rainforest-drumming. There is more than one way of getting on to WIND-DRUMMING: obviously it is about the confrontation of two incongruent ways of living, a lament on the damage done tothe tropical rainforests of the world by modern civilisation. One can hear it plainly as a direct rhythm-show, a downright number or a joyous homage to the most exiting kind of folkloristic music at all: the carnal spell of the Brazilian Samba. Poul Ruders.
