Customer Reviews

English choral music meets Philip Glass - By: , 19 Aug 2000
When you listen to the opening notes of this album you can picture yourself inside King's College Cambridge, & then you notice the difference. Inspired by Anne Dudley's background with Art of Noise, traditionally pure choral sounds are infused with progressive rock bass lines & percussion. Christmas will never be the same once you have experienced the Holly & the Ivy, carried away by the arrangement's Glassian rhythms. However, I think the masterpiece of this album is her arrangement of the Bach chorale - if you are just sitting & listening for the first time without following the album cover you will be unaware that the chorale has started, so subtle is Ms Dudley's intro. Then familiar Bach continuo lines creepin before the choir enters with the choralein all its glory. Definitely an album for the diverse collector.