Ensemble Celadon & Paulin Bundgen – No. Time in Eternity (2017) [Qobuz FLAC 24bit/88,2kHz]

Through a repertoire of Consort Songs for five violas and countertenor, the Céladon Ensemble tries to underline the obvious artistic connections between the music of english Renaissance and contemporary music. This parentage, this harmonic, rhythmic and poetic logic, opens a whole field of exploration into sound identity and tradition. How have such seemingly different composers, belonging to remote eras, dealt with timbre fusion in a similar way, with the same desire to deeply affect, to create a full-bodied sound, both powerful and soothing ? The two eras are not placed in opposition for this concert, as Michael Nyman’s music arises naturally from that of his predecessors ; on the contrary, it is a clever mix of genres that points out to surprising similarities between these works : we could easily believe that Tye’s Sit Fast was composed very recently. From one century to the next, we face a testimony brought to song by the timbre of a countertenor, the intensity of a violas consort that carries a certain magic, the paradoxical expression of a voice which is solitary but also becomes a seventh instrument, one of the violas. © Aeon

Tracklist

01. Songs for Ariel: Full Fathom Five
02. Prepare to Die
03. Songs for Ariel: While You Here Do Snoring Lie
04. Songs for Ariel: Where the Bee Sucks There Suck I
05. Eliza, Her Name Gives Honour
06. Sit Fast
07. Songs for Ariel: Before You Can Say Come and Go
08. Ye Sacred Muses, Race of Jove
09. No Time in Eternity
10. In Paradise
11. In Nomine
12. Send Forth Thy Sighs
13. O Jove, From Stately Throne
14. Songs for Ariel: Come Unto There Yellow Sands
15. In nomine (Crye)
16. Self-Laudatory Hymn of Inanna

Personnel
Paulin Bündgen, countertenor
Ensemble Celadon

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