Roberts Slow

The unreleased material has many entries, an example, such as a demo, take and rehearsal recorded 1960-1969. Some records were not published in the official album and bootlegs.

In a second disc of Ives’s songs, the unbeatable partnership of Finley and Drake again enthral their listeners and bring them to the emotional core of each work. The range of style and approach in Ives’s text-setting is startling—from simple, sentimental ballads to complex and strenuous philosophical discourses, sometimes encompassing the most dissonant and virtuosic piano parts, sometimes with the accompaniment pared down to an almost minimalist phrase-repetition. Even those composed in a superficially conventional or ‘polite’ tonal idiom usually contain harmonic, rhythmic or accentual surprises somewhere.

The Tallis Scholars - Requiem
2xCD | EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 582 MB | Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Gimmel Records # CDGIM 205 | Country/Year: UK 2005 (1987, 1990, 1992, 1997)
Genre: Classical | Style: Vocal, Renaissance, Sacred

"From the split second that the opening Requiem aeternam chant is heard, every listener is inevitably transported. It is a classic instance of the power of music to communicate without reserve." ~Peter Phillips