Ursula Carven

Psallentes - Ursula 11 - Hildegard von Bingen - Plainchant Pro Series Vol. 3 (2011) {Le Bricoleur LBCD/03}
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Classical / Medieval / Early Music / Sacred Works / Vocal

The Rhine turned crimson when the royal princess Ursula and her eleven thousand companions were slaughtered by the Huns. Many centuries later, Hildegard of Bingen composed a plainchant office in Ursula’s honour and sent a copy to the Abbey of Villers. The singers of Psallentes♀ sing from this famous manuscript (now housed in Dendermonde).

After what seems like years of delay, Mode has released this CD of chamber and vocal music in time for Elliott Carter's 95th birthday, which fell on Dec. 11, 2003. It was worth the wait. The Quintet for Piano and Strings (1997) is one of the two or three pinnacles of Carter's prolific eighties. Though undeniably an example of the his late style, it harks back to the First Quartet (1951!) in its long-lined writing for strings. The music is expansive and concise, light-hearted and dramatic all at once, and it is played to perfection by Ursula Oppens and the Arditti Quartet, the performers for whom it was written.

Un recueil de 17 nouvelles qui offrent un panorama de l'univers de U.K. Le Guin : des voyages temporels à partir d'une chambre de bonne du IVe arrondissement de Paris, le cruel devenir du seul survivant d'une colonie de dix individus ou encore le bonheur d'une ville intimement lié au malheur d'une seule personne. …