Early Music (Lachrym忙 antiqu忙)

by Christopher Tye / Kronos Quartet

Early Music (Lachrym忙 antiqu忙) cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 12 September 1997
  • Label: Nonesuch
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:08:33
  • Community rating: 3.88/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The Kronos Quartet offers a sweeping, time-collapsing vision of string music, intertwining Renaissance compositions by Christopher Tye with modern classical and Tuvan throat singing. The album's eclectic arrangement breathes an ancient, distinctly medieval spirit into avant-garde chamber performances.

Genres

Descriptors: Modern, medieval, chamber, instrumental, strings, traditional, suite, ensemble

Tracklist

  1. Kyrie I (0:55)
  2. Rachell's Weepinge (1:44)
  3. Laengdans efter Byfans Mats (3:12)
  4. Lachrymae Antiquae (3:56)
  5. Psalom (2:08)
  6. Two Studies on Ancient Greek Scales: 1) Olympos' Pentatonic 2) Archytas' Enharmonic (3:41)
  7. Long-Ge (2:53)
  8. Totem Ancestor (2:09)
  9. Kyrie II (0:45)
  10. Brudmarsch Fra Oesta (2:55)
  11. Using the Apostate Tyrant as His Tool (3:54)
  12. Synchrony No. 2 (2:41)
  13. Quodlibet (1:28)
  14. P茅oritn: Viderunt omnes (Version for String Quartet) (11:46)
  15. Kyrie III (1:06)
  16. Four Part Fantasia No. 2 - June 11, 1680 (3:07)
  17. O Virtus Sapiente (4:31)
  18. Uleg-Khem (3:20)
  19. Farwell My Good 1. Forever (2:21)
  20. Collected Songs Where Every Verse is Filled with Grief (8:24)
  21. Bells (1:27)

Credits

  • Joan Jeanrenaud - cello
  • Hank Dutt - viola
  • John Sherba - violin
  • Guillaume de Machaut - composed by
  • Marja Mutru - harmonium
  • Christopher Tye - composed by
  • John David Lamb - bagpipes, composed by
  • John Dowland - composed by

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