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| Early Music (Lachrymae Antiquae) | 
 enlarge | Creators: Jack Body, John Cage, John Dowland, Hildegard Of Bingen, Kassia, David Lamb, Guillaume De Machaut, Kronos Quartet, Joan Jeanrenaud
Label: Nonesuch
Category: Music
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (9 reviews)
Sales Rank: 76597
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 79457
UPC: 075597945720
EAN: 0075597945720
ASIN: B000005J4S
Release Date: September 16, 1997
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| Tracks:
| • | Kyrie I | | • | Rachell's Weepinge | | • | Langdans efter Byfans Mats | | • | Lachrymae Antiqua | | • | Psalom | | • | Two Studies On Ancient Greek Scales: 1. Olympos' Pentatonic - 2. Archytas' Enharmonic | | • | Long-Ge | | • | Totem Ancestor | | • | Kyrie II | | • | Brudmarsch fra Osta | | • | Using The Apostate Tyrant As His Tool | | • | Synchrony No.2 | | • | Quodlibet | | • | Viderunt Omnes | | • | Kyrie III | | • | Four Part Fantasia No. 2 | | • | O Virtus Sapientie | | • | Uleg-Khem | | • | Farwell My Good I. Forever | | • | Collected Songs Where Every Verse Is Filled With Grief | | • | Requiem Mass: Bells: Tolling Of The Knell |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com essential recording
Don't get too comfortable with this disc's opening minutes, which sound convincingly like a well-tuned consort of viols performing two short pieces by Machaut and Tye. These two works from the 14th and 16th centuries quickly give way to a piece from 1997 by David Lamb. Then come Arvo Part, Harry Partch, John Cage, and even Moondog, a.k.a. Louis Hardin. Additional instruments come and go- -harmonium, bagpipe, zhong ruan, nyckelharpa, drum--all of which complement and enhance the string sounds. Later, we hear music by Hildegard von Bingen, Perotin, and even Purcell. Most of the selections from early composers are arrangements by the Kronos Quartet and others, but it's a tribute to the recording's producers that in spite of the music's diversity, everything works together to make a coherent, cohesive, intellectually, and musically challenging program. --David Vernier
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| Customer Reviews: Read 4 more reviews...
 Inaccurate Title April 27, 2008
I'm sure the music is very splendid, but being a fan and researcher of Early music (encompassing the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods), I must stress the inaccuracy of this cd's title. John Cage and Arvo Part are twentieth century composers who have been influenced by music of the past, but THEY DID NOT COMPOSE EARLY MUSIC...so why does the group name the CD this?
If you're going to name your album "Early Music," stick with early music.
 one of their best April 13, 2005
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
If you like simple, string quartet music as much as I do, then you've got to listen to this. It is a generous 68 minutes of plaintive music--no discontinuities and surpises like on their Black Angels recording. It is all slow and mournful.
I loved this CD! November 2, 2002
1 out of 7 found this review helpful
When I was listening to MSN I came across it. I love Early Music and they had a Radio station that was playing it. I decided to listen to it. So as I was lisitening to it I came across the song Collected Songs Where Every Verse Is Filled With Grief. That is the besty song I ever heard in a long time. I like the other songs but this one really spoke to me. It was quite moving if I might say.
Not as early as you might think June 6, 2000
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
Yes, there is "old" music on this disc. But works in olden style by John Cage, Arvo Part, et al are also present. Quite a challenging program on the listener - but rewarding as well. I am particularly found of Kronos' setting of Alfred Shnittke's "Collected Songs Where Every Verse is Filled With Grief". Very eclectic recording performed with usual finesse of the Kronos Quartet - and some guests.
Pleonastic March 10, 2000
26 out of 38 found this review helpful
Kronos Quarter has been an agile and versatile instrument in the hands of modern composers. It has (re)interpreted music from many sources in a coherent way, thus creating a very distinctive sound. This album offers a mixed program of composers, juxtaposing the modern and the antique. The thesis of the album is (I think) that early composers are surprisingly palatable to modern sensibilities, and that they are close in spirit to a vast array of contemporary musicians. Also, it seems that the bond linking all these authors is a certain state of affliction; hence the subtitle of the album "lachrymae antiquae", ancient tears. Yet, overall, I found this a pretentious album, even in its use of latin. After so many years of philologically accurate renditions of the early masters, performed on period intruments, the operation of K.Q. sounds at least inappropriate if not even a bit obnoxious. It often seems that they are sacrificing the original intentions of the authors to the altar of this "modernity" thesis. The listener should judge by him/herself.Summing up, I would just say that this is first of all a K.Q. album "inspired by" early music. I would just point out that it doesn't add much to the understanding neither of Machaut & co., nor of K.Q., which is still a great ensemble.
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