Libera

2008 double CD anthology from the British boy choir vocal group. Eternal contains 26 Libera favorites drawn from earlier releases, as well as four brand new tracks: 'Mother of God', 'Gaudete', 'You Were There' and 'How Can I Keep From Singing?'. This collection also features two remixed songs previously only available as digital downloads and released here for the first time on CD. Libera enjoyed a busy 2007-2008 season: they made highly successful tours to Japan, Korea and the U.S. and took part in high profile events including the Kennedy Center Honors before a star-studded audience of politicians and celebrities. - - EMI.

Despite the rather numerous and diverse orchestral line-up, the idea of concertare has a more chamber-like character here. The soloist is usually not directly confronted with the massive sound of a full orchestral tutti, but rather is involved in dialogues and interactions with small groups of instruments. With exceptional naturalness, André Tchaikowsky managed to achieve in this concerto a balance between solo violin and a full-scale symphony orchestra, employing textures of a linear, quasi-polyphonic character – enriched, however, by intense and refined harmony and contrapuntal devices drawing on the Baroque tradition.

L'objet de ce livre est l'expérience de la pensée, telle que l'a vécue un type d'homme – l'intellectuel – et telle que l'ont reproduite des groupes d'hommes et de femmes aux XIIIe et XIVe siècles. …