CD, стоящие на полке рядом : Classics (Modern Classics/SU)      

Flanders Fiamminghi Orchestra

I Fiamminghi's vibrantly warm sound, the electrifying virtuosity of their playing and the expressive impact of their performances have excited critics and audiences alike.

Fratres is based on the repetitions of an austere, hymn-like theme played above a continuous drone on the interval of an open fifth. The dynamic peak is reached in the middle of the work, after which the music gradually diminishes to a silence. The piece ends in a hushed spirituality. Fratres, in its original version of eight variations, was composed in 1977 for string quartet and wind quintet. Telarc presents seven of the eight original variations for the first time.

Also included on the CD are three additional works by Part; Cantus in memoriam of Benjamin Britten for strings and one bell, Summa for strings and Festina Lente. The Cantus is brief but deeply moving, based on a single thematic idea, while Summa creates a mysterious aura with its haunting modal sound. Festina Lente's long serpentine melody is simultaneously sounded in three different tempos, borrowing a compositional technique known as "mensuration canon" from Ockeghem and the other most learned fifteenth-century masters.

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