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August 16, 2005

XL - hear it on an overgrown path

XL is the new choral work by English composer Anthony Pitts. It uses the same forces as Tallis' sublime 40 part motet Spem in Alium, and was composed as a companion piece.

Anthony has just emailed me with an audio link which means on an overgrown path readers can hear the first third of XL online using this link. It is a substantial 5 minute excerpt, so it gives you a good flavour of this fascinating work -

XL is on a new Harmonia Mundi CD sung by the Rundfunkchor Berlin directed by Simon Halsey. It also includes the Tallis motet, Knut Nystedt's Immortal Bach, and Zoltán Kodaly's substantial Laudes organi.

Other posts linking to the work of Anthony Pitts, and well worth reading are Jerry Springer rebel grabs Gramophone accolade and
Raindrops are falling on my chant.
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Originally from On An Overgrown Path, ReBlogged by jeff on Aug 16, 2005 at 02:19 PM

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