Cantiones De Circulo Gyrante

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This is an essential disc for any collection of contemporary music--and not only because Huber is (with Boulanger and Messiaen) one of the three most important pedagogues of postwar classical music. Fans of medieval and renaissance music will be drawn to Huber's reinvestigation of early music, and his handling of this material makes Arvo Part appear superficial. Converts to the "complexity" school--personified by Huber's most famous pupil, Brian Ferneyhough--will discover a rare directness of expression in Huber's fearless juxtaposition of medieval texts by Hildegard von Bingen, with the purity of early Renaissance polyphony and the violence of postwar instrumental extended techniques. As Ferneyhough has said, this music does full justice to the complexity of its composer's historical position. --Joshua Cody

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Cantiones De Circulo Gyrante ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B0009X3LAE

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Huber: Cantiones de Circulo Gyrante, with texts by Heinric Manufacturer: Disques Montaigne ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music CDs Under $7 | Classical General | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Classical General | Classical | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music ASIN: B000003VR7 Release Date: 1995-06-20

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This is an essential disc for any collection of contemporary music--and not only because Huber is (with Boulanger and Messiaen) one of the three most important pedagogues of postwar classical music. Fans of medieval and renaissance music will be drawn to Huber's reinvestigation of early music, and his handling of this material makes Arvo Part appear superficial. Converts to the "complexity" school--personified by Huber's most famous pupil, Brian Ferneyhough--will discover a rare directness of expression in Huber's fearless juxtaposition of medieval texts by Hildegard von Bingen, with the purity of early Renaissance polyphony and the violence of postwar instrumental extended techniques. As Ferneyhough has said, this music does full justice to the complexity of its composer's historical position. --Joshua Cody

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Poweful overall effect........1999-01-27

I don't usually like modern works that use a speaker to recite poetry to music. Schoenberg's Ode to Napoleon works, I think, but Berio's Laborintus II doesn't, nor have many others, until this work by Huber. He has a male speaker, accompanied by double bass, recite Heinrich Boll's bitter and angry poem about the destruction the Germans wrought on their victims and ultimately brought upon themselves (when their cities were bombed). This is set against the background of choral settings of Hildegaard of Bingen's mystical accounts of visions, with music drawing on modern serialism as well as early music. The overall effect is stunning, putting the listener into a sort of double time-frame, of eternity (with visions of love overflowing the universe) as a backdrop to modern horror. This work is a powerful attempt by a modern German composer to come to terms with the awful legacy of 20th-Century German history.

Track Listings:

1. Classical Spectacular 1
2. Complete Trios for Violin, Cello & Piano
3. Composers from Theresienstadt, 1941-1945: Pavel Haas, Karel Berman
4. Concerts / French Cantatas
5. Dances & Madrigals
6. DANZA ESPAÑOLA - Friedemann Wuttke
7. Dedications for Saxophone & Piano
8. Fantasies on Operatic Themes
9. First Book of Ayres
10. For Stefan Wolpe

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Track Listings

Future Songs [Import]

Kurt Weill: Kleine Dreigroschenmusik / Concerto for Violin & Wind Orchestra / Mahagonny Songspiel

Johnny Adams Sings Doc Pomus: The Real Me

Music: Abandon Your Friends

Hi-Tech Lowlife

Great Love Songs [Import]

I'm Hungry, I Just Don't Know What I Want

Guitar Works

Legends of Country: 36 Great Performances [Import]

Jazz Music: 11 Episodios Sinfonicos [Live]

Island in the Sun (Enhanced) [CD-single]

Johnny Action Figure [Import]

Ibiza Dance Tour

Handel: Acis & Galatea

In Pieces