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DiscountDelight - Lauridsen: Lux Aeterna, etc. / Salamunovich, Los Angeles Master Chorale
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List Price: $18.98
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Manufacturer: Rubeda Canis Musica
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0707651970521
Label: Rubeda Canis Musica
Manufacturer: Rubeda Canis Musica
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Rubeda Canis Musica
Release Date: 1998-05-19
Studio: Rubeda Canis Musica
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Gorgeous
Comment: It's incredible that I've listened to this CD at least 300 times over the last two years and still love it. Without a doubt, Lux Aeterna is the most beautiful piece of music I've ever had the opportunity to sing.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Ethereal
Comment: The title says it all. The hamonization, clear tones, and excellent recording are out of this world. The balance of the chorus with the orchestra is wonderful.
Buy it!
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Summary: Lux Aeterna Describes the Disk Perfectly
Comment: I am an avid follower of the classical genre but somehow have missed the music of Lauridsen. All of the selections on this disk are exceptional in their ability to evoke peace and the beauty of creation. Lauridsen's music is truly inspirational and the performance by the Los Angeles Master Chorale is exceptional. This is a must disk if you love inspirational chorale music.
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Summary: Masterful - O Magnum
Comment: The Los Angeles Master Choral has captured the heart of Lauridsen's music. Each of the pieces is "masterfully" accomplished and dynamically phrased effortlessly.
To be imitated is the most sincere form of flattery.
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Summary: Music you will listen to again and again and again
Comment: I first heard this when a friend played this CD for me. It is stunning, haunting, passionate, beautiful. I immediately bought my own copy and three for friends in the UK. All are critical musicians and all were blown away by this work. One emailed me to say that this composer, new to him, had a fantastic feel for the chorus and "writes for the voice like Palestrina". Morten Lauridsen is a most sensitive soul and his music reflects the deep personal emotions he underwent while composing 'Lux Aeterna'. The man is a composer in the mainstream of things, equal in every sense to Rutter. I predict they will be playing his music in a hundred years. We are blessed to be among the early audience for this master of choral work. If you even remotely enjoy choral music buy this. You will not be disappointed. Lux is not his only work by any means. Do a search and you will find that he has written work in a more modern tone...believe me ...it is excellent without exception.
And you will enjoy it over and over again, I promise.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Modern choral music for amateur singers may be America's biggest musical underground. That's the only explanation of why Grammy-nominated composer Morten Lauridsen can claim that his works are some of the most often-performed new pieces in years, although few among the East Coast intelligentsia have ever heard of him. Like the similarly popular John Rutter, Lauridsen inhabits an extremely conservative style directed simply and single-mindedly at showing off the beauty of choral singing while it illustrates inspiring texts. Unlike many of his fellow neo-Romantic conservatives, Lauridsen displays a brand of conservatism that is completely convincing and sincere. His music also has range, from the spellbindingly rapturous Lux aeterna to his playful settings of Rilke's poems about the beauty and thorniness of roses in Les chansons des roses. There is, moreover, a Coplandesque streak heard in his Mid-Winter Songs, which are settings of poems by Robert Graves. Though the Los Angeles Master Chorale has a suitably red-blooded sound, the music would be better served with more precise diction. --David Patrick Stearns
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