Ice and Longboats: ancient music of Scandinavia

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Ice and Longboats: ancient music of ScandinaviaSUMMARY TRACK LISTING WATCH REVIEWS INFO Scandinavias archaeologically known prehistory encompasses around twelve thousand years, culminating in the Viking period (c. 8001050AD). The Middle Ages then followed, around six hundred years later than in continental Europe a late development due to the long period in which ice still covered Europes northern parts. Volume 2 in Delphian Records groundbreaking collaboration with the European Music Archaeology

3 is a spacious work in eight short movements

"These are truly great performances of less familiar music

the composer is short of his 27th birthday

"the first choral entry [The Anvil] reminds me of the opening chorus of J S Bach's St John's Passion

As if this were not enough

not least in the bass voicing

The cloistered intimacy of those occasions is reenacted in The Marian Consort's performances here

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Total playing time: 1:00:23

masked by the instrumental textures’ quiet iridescence

two of the most prominent and successful composers in Mexico today

What makes this a distinguished interpretation in a formidable field is its integrity: a clarity reflecting a desire to make every aspect of Byrd’s music clear

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