Dudley - Ancient and Modern

Product Details

Binding : Audio CD
EAN : 0724355686824
Label : Angel
Number of Discs : 1
Product Group : Music
UPC : 724355686824

ASIN : B00001IVKK

Track Listings for

Disc-1
1. Canticles of the Sun and Moon
2. Veni Sancte Spiritus
3. From Darkness to Light
4. Veni Emmanuel
5. Tallis' Canon
6. Holly and the Ivy
7. Testimony of John
8. Canzonetta
9. Coventry Carol
10. Prelude/Three Chorales in Common Time
11. Three Strings
12. Eight Woodwind
13. Sixteen Voices

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Editorial Reviews

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Anne Dudley is an enigmatic figure. She's a founding member of the British dance group the Art of Noise, a noted film composer with an Academy Award for The Full Monty soundtrack, and she's a classically trained keyboardist. In recent months, Anne Dudley has released a new Art of Noise CD, The Seduction of Claude Debussy, that adds dance beats to the classical French composer's melodies, and she has a solo album, Ancient & Modern, on which she rearranges carols, hymns, and fugues for orchestra.

Ancient & Modern lives up to its title. She takes the Bach preludes "Coventry Carol" and Tallis's "Canon" and arranges them for orchestra and a choir called the Sixteen. Although these recordings should rightly be called adaptations and arrangements, Dudley takes writing credits for all, including venerable hymns like "Veni Emmanuel."

The album is at its best when Dudley shows her contemporary influences, as on "Canticles of the Sun and Moon." The song is based around the hymn "From All Who Dwell Beneath the Sky," but Dudley gives it a minimalist turn with cyclical marimba lines. She performs a similar fete with "Veni Emmanuel," building an unusual tension and dynamic explosiveness in this usually sedate hymn. --John Diliberto

Customer Reviews

English choral music meets Philip Glass (2000-08-19)

When you listen to the opening notes of this album you can picture yourself inside King's College Cambridge, and then you notice the difference. Inspired by Anne Dudley's background with Art of Noise, traditionally pure choral sounds are infused with progressive rock bass lines and percussion. Christmas will never be the same once you have experienced the Holly and the Ivy, carried away by the arrangement's Glassian rhythms. However, I think the masterpiece of this album is her arrangement of the Bach chorale - if you are just sitting and listening for the first time without following the album cover you will be unaware that the chorale has started, so subtle is Ms Dudley's intro. Then familiar Bach continuo lines creep in before the choir enters with the chorale in all its glory. Definitely an album for the diverse collector.

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