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Glorious
Hill – Bryars, Vasks, Ešenvalds
Latvian
Radio choir
GRAMOPHONE - Editors Choice
February 2008
THE INDEPENDENT - Album Of The
Week
December 2007
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1.
Gavin
Bryars: Lauda 22
2.
Fammi cantar
l'amor (13th century)
3.
Gavin Bryars:
Lauda 23
4.
Gavin Bryars:
Glorious Hill
5.
Ēriks
Ešenvalds: Légende de la femme
emmurée
6.
Dammi conforto
Dio (13th century)
7.
Gavin Bryars:
Lauda 24
8.
Pēteris Vasks:
Zīles ziņa
9. Gavin Bryars: Cadman Requiem
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“Gavin
Bryar’s music and the special qualities of the Latvian Radio Choir fit one
another like hand and glove. (..)
Overall then an eminently collectable disc, beautifully sung and recorded from
first note to last.”
David Fanning, Gramophone, February 2008
“No
British choir sings with the precision and vibrato-free purity of this
brilliant group from Riga,
so it’s no wonder Gavin Bryars has been inspired to work with them. This lovely
CD draws partly on work by two Latvian composers, but Bryars’s own ecstatic
brand of neomedievalism, adapting material from 13th – century Spanish manuscripts,
is what powers it.” Michael Church, The Independent, December 2007
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