Жанр: Сhorus, Classical Vocal Crossover, Celtic
Год выпуска: 2007
Формат: 256 mp3
Продолжительность: 43.47 minutes
Размер: 80.3 MB

Anúna's first new album since 2000, this 2006 release takes the group further into uncharted waters. This album features some of Anúna's finest recorded work, with contribution from guests Ken Edge [saxophone], Noel Eccles [vibraphone and percussion], Andreja Mahlir [concert harp], Máire Breathnach [viola and violin] and Breton legend Gilles Servat.
Review [April 20th 2006] in Hot Press

Музыка древних Кельтов была почти утерена, но благодоря Ирландскому коллективу «Anuna», она стала вновь популярна во всем мире. Группа была основана молодым Дублинским композитором Майклом Мак Глином, в 1987 году. Создавая коллектив он преследовал одну лишь цель, воссоздания средневековой и традиционной Ирландской музыки.


Sensation, the 10th album by Irish choral ensemble Anúna, brings together a wide assortment of music, all of it arranged or composed by its conductor, Michael McGlynn. While McGlynn's treatments may rankle purists, who, for instance, only want to hear Hildegard von Bingen performed by unaccompanied women's voices, when taken on its own terms, his cross-pollination of musical styles is never less than intriguing and is most often beguiling.

McGlynn's sophistication as a composer accounts for much of the album's appeal. The title track, featuring a speaker reciting an idyllic Rimbaud poem, accompanied by violin, harp, and women's chorus singing a sensual, impressionistic setting of the same text, vividly captures the serenity and eroticism of Rimbaud's imagery. McGlynn's setting of the medieval text Maid in the Moor Lay is disarming in its folk-like simplicity and purity. His O Maria is harmonically and texturally complex, but never sounds "difficult," and conveys an otherworldly and enveloping serenity. Other pieces, such as Silver River and Shining Water, bring a new age sensibility to the Irish folk tradition.

The other factor in making this album so sensually appealing and rewarding is the extraordinary technical prowess and secure musicianship of the singers. The ease and precision and musicality of their performances of extremely demanding music puts them in the ranks of the very finest chamber choirs. It would be a pleasure to hear them bring their formidable strength to the broader repertoire of exceptional (and exceptionally difficult to perform) choral music that is being written today.

Anuna : Shining Water
T r a c k L i s t i n g s
1 O Ignis Spiritus 5:59
2 Brezairola 3:32
3 Sensation 5:02
4 Silver River 3:09
5 Shining Water 5:25
6 Lux Aeterna 3:40
7 The Road of Passage 2:20
8 Whispers of Paradise 4:25
9 Maid in the Moor Lay 1:28
10 Tenebrae IV 2:39
11 O Maria 6:07

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