Rating: 2/5
Review:
A poor recording
I’m afraid I don’t like this recording at all. Pierre de la Rue
was a wonderful composer and there are some excellent recordings of
his work; this isn’t one of them.
To put it bluntly,
the singers aren’t very good, and nor is the direction. There is
almost nothing in the way of blend or, more importantly, balance so
the impression is of a group of people doing their own thing with
little reference to anyone else – which entirely negates much of
the point of polyphony. The singers themselves sound tentative to
the point of being scared much of the time, intonation is
occasionally dodgy, there is some intrusive vibrato...it just sounds
pretty grim to me.
I don’t like to be
so critical, but I really think this is a poor recording which does
no justice to de la Rue’s music. My advice is to try some of the
fine recordings by The Clerk’s Group, Henry’s Eight, Amarcord,
Gothic Voices and others and to leave this one well alone.
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